Sunday, July 9, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 06-30-2023 & 07-07-2023

 38 North

 Air University Press

  • AEther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower Summer 2023, v. 2, no. 2 
    • A Tactical Nuclear Mindset: Deterring with Conventional Apples and Nuclear Oranges
    • A Rational Choice? Russia’s Potential Use of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
    • Talking Space: History, Strategic Communications, and Space Security
    • Violence, Culture, and a Path to Peace
    • Systematizing Supply Chain Warfare
    • A Case for an Independent Cyber Force
  • State and Private Capital Allocations in China as Strategic Intelligence 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

Army University Press

  • Military Review, July-August 2023, v. 103, no. 4 
    • Develop, Modernize, Influence
    • Juneteenth: Freedom’s Journey (1619–2123)
    • Concrete Command: Why Combat Training Centers Should Prioritize Training on Urban Command Posts
    • Bayraktars and Grenade-Dropping Quadcopters: How Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh Highlight Present Air and Missile Defense Shortcomings and the Necessity of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
    • The Exploitable Conditions Framework: Strategies for Sociocultural Research and Analysis
    • The Wagner Group and U.S. Security Force Assistance in Africa: Changed and Challenging Dynamics
    • Army University Press Products Relevant to INDOPACOM and Korea
    • Toward a Mutually Beneficial Partnership with India to Improve U.S. Strategy in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
    • The Responsibility to (Selectively) Protect: R2P’s Dubious Future Post-Libya
    • The Impact of Supply Chain Issues on Military Training and Readiness
    • A Foundational Approach to Build and Sustain a Strong People-Focused Culture at the Battalion Level and Below
    • Contextualizing the Results: Improving the Order of Merit List
    • The Discipline Gap: How Army Leadership Curricula Misses the Mark and Why It Should Change
    • Reexamining Administrative Investigations: Creating an Investigating Officer Functional Area
    • Setting the Conditions for Mission Command to Flourish
    • Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death
  • Victory Starts Here:  A Short 50-Year History of the U.S. Training and Doctrine Command 

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Foundation

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Brookings Institution

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)          

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

 Clingendael Institute Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces

 Defense Priorities

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-23-29 Results of Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the Yuma and Tucson Areas 
  • OIG-23-31 CBP Released a Migrant on a Terrorist Watchlist, and ICE Faced Information Sharing Challenges Planning and Conducting the Arrest (REDACTED) 

 Department of State

 Doublethink Lab

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Commission Joint Research Centre

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Leadership Network (ELN) 

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 EUROPOL

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

 George Mason University Baroni Center for Government Contracting

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Artificial Intelligence: DOD Needs Department-Wide Guidance to Inform Acquisitions GAO-23-105850 
  • Climate Change: State Department Did Not Track Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Delegation Travel to Meetings 26 and 27 of the United Nations Conference of the Parties GAO-23-105863 
  • Counterterrorism: Action Needed to Further Develop the Information Sharing Environment GAO-23-105310 
  • Cybersecurity: Launching and Implementing the National Cybersecurity Strategy GAO-23-106826  
  • Hunger and Homelessness: Funding Distribution for Key Programs GAO-23-105458 
  • Military Officers: DOD Can Enhance Promotion and Education Guidance for Addressing Indo-Pacific Region Needs GAO-23-106070
  • Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Cost and Schedule Estimates for Shipyard Improvement GAO-23-106067 
  • Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle: Observations on the Objectivity, Validity, and Reliability of the Army's Report GAO-23-106549 
  • Research and Development: DOD Benefited from Financial Flexibilities but Could Do More to Maximize Their Use GAO-23-105822 
  • U.S. Access Board: Interagency Efforts to Promote Accessibility for People with Disabilities Generally Followed Leading Collaboration Practices GAO-23-105948 
  • U.S. Territories: Public Debt Outlook - 2023 Update GAO-23-106045 

 Hawai´i Department of Health

 Heritage Foundation

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP)

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

 Institute for the Study of War

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 International Republican Institute

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, July 7, 2023, v. 23, no. 12 
    • Xi Jinping’s Hidden Goals for the PRC Law on Foreign Relations
    • China’s Collaboration with the Myanmar Junta: A Case of Strategic Hedging?
    • Cash-for-Metaverse: How China’s Digital RMB and Metaverse Strategy Could Circumvent Sanctions
    • The 20th Shangri-La Dialogue: US-China Great Power Rivalry Takes Center Stage

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

  • MES Insights, June 2023, v. 14, no. 3 
    • China's Engagement in Africa: Security Initiatives and United Nations Voting

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

 MITRE

 National Academies Press  

 National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  110, (3rd Quarter, July 2023) 
    • Strategic Inflection Point: The Most Historically Significant and Fundamental Change in the Character of War Is Happening Now—While the Future Is Clouded in Mist and Uncertainty
    • A Framework for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Deterrence
    • Cutting the Chaff: Overlooked Lessons of Military UAP Sightings for Joint Force and Interagency Coordination
    • Quantum Computing: A New Competitive Factor with China
    • An AI-Ready Military Workforce
    • Enhancing National Security: Increasing Female Faculty in Professional Military Education Would Strengthen U.S. Security
    • Why Military Space Matters
    • Improving Analytic Tradecraft: The Benefit of a Multilateral Foundational Training Model for Military Intelligence
    • The Purpose and Impact of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program
    • Special Operations Forces Institution-Building: From Strategic Approach to Security Force Assistance
    • Analyzing a Country’s Strategic Posture: Suggestions for Practitioners
    • Integrating Women, Peace, and Security Into Security Cooperation
    • The Exceptional Family Member Program: Noble Cause, Flawed System
    • The Civil War and Revolutions in Naval Affairs: Lessons for Today
    • Mission Assurance: Decisionmaking at the Speed of Relevance

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Archive

 Naval War College

  • Naval War College Review, Spring 2023, v. 76, no. 2 
    • The Future of Precision-Strike Warfare—Strategic Dynamics of Mature Military Revolutions
    • Smart Balancers Kill Many Birds with Few Stones—Sino-Russian Security Cooperation in the Maritime Domain
    • The European Union’s Quest to Become a Global Maritime-Security Provider
    • “Confining the Enemy”—Halford Mackinder’s Theory of Containment and the Conflict in Ukraine
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis at Sea—Avoidance of Nuclear War Not Left to Chance
    • Research & Debate—Historical Parallels in Command: Nelson and Spruance

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Niskanen Center

 Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

 Observer Research Foundation

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 Our World in Data

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center 

 Policy Exchange (UK)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

 Sentry

 Simon Fraser University

  • Journal for Deradicalization, Summer 2023, no. 35 
    • Online Radicalization Case Study of a Mass Shooting: the Payton Gendron Manifesto
    • Qollateral: The Impact of QAnon on Loved Ones and the Potential for P/CVE Programs to Help
    • The Regional Face of Extremism: A Case Study of the Northern Netherlands
    • Framing local collaboration among frontline workers in the field of preventing violent extremism
    • Football-based prevention of radicalisation: A Theory of Change for football-based prevention of Radicalisation
    • Perceptions Versus Reality of QAnon Radicalization: A Comparative Study
    • Policy Paper: The Ethics of Using Formers to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism

  Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stanford Internet Observatory

 Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Taylor & Francis

 Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, 2023, v.17, no. 2 
    • Is Far-Right Violence Actually Increasing in Australia? Tracking Far-Right Terrorism and Violence in Australia Between 1990-2020
    • Public Health Crisis and Hate Crimes: Deciphering the Proliferation of Anti-Asian Violence in the US before and during COVID-19
    • Rallying Around Empty Signifiers: Understanding and Defining Anti-Government Protest in the Netherlands
    • Studying Terror Through My I's: Autoethnographic Insider/Outsider Reflections of an Arab-Muslim Researcher
    • The Metaverse and Terrorism: Threats and Challenges
    • When Digital and Physical Worlds Combine: The Metaverse and Gamification of Violent Extremism
    • Terrorism and the Media (Including the Internet) Part 6

 Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

 UK Parliament

 UN Office of the High Commissioner Human Rights 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime

UN Women

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 Wilson Center