Friday's Miscellany 09-08-2023

 38 North

• Expansion at Nampho’s POL Storage Depot 
• Sinpho South Shipyard: New Submarine Makes Debut, but With Many Questions to be Answered 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• China’s United Front Strategy in Africa 
• Inflection Point for Africa-Russia Relations after Prigozhin’s Death 

 Air University Press

• AEther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower Fall 2023, v. 2, no. 3 
• A Conversation about Moral Injury
• Clear the Beds
• An Anthem of the Long War: Recollection, Learning, and Looking Ahead
• Living with Killing: World War II US Bomber Crews
• Moral Injury: Wrestling with Definitions and Conceptual Drift
• Marooning Moral Injury: An Ethical Inquiry into the Term
• Conceptualizations of War and Moral Injury: Implications for Commanders and Therapists
• Moral Injury and Suicide Risk

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), August 2032, v. 30, no. 8 
• Active Surveillance for Acute Respiratory Disease Detected No Outbreaks at Four U.S. Army Basic Training Installations in 2022
• Case Report: Complicated Urinary Tract Infection Due to an Extensively Resistant Escherichia Coli in a Returning Traveler
• Surveillance Snapshot: Pseudofolliculitis Barbae Cases in Active Component Service Members, 2000–2022
• Reportable Medical Events, Military Health System Facilities, Week 26, Ending July 1, 2023

 Army University Press

• Military Review, September- October 2023, v. 103, no. 5 
• Professional Membership: Expectations and Privileges
• Pen and Sword: The Symbiosis between Ernest Hemingway and Maj. Gen. Buck Lanham
• Low Crawling toward Obscurity: The Army’s Professional Journals
• Reimagining America’s Professional All-Volunteer Army
• Lack of Will: How the All-Volunteer Force Conditioned the American Public
• Four Minutes to Make a Leader
• The 11th Airborne Division Reborn: Arctic Angels
• Russians Are Busy Hammering Out Their “Ideology of the Future”
• Xi Jinping’s PLA Reforms and Redefining “Active Defense”
• Army University Press Products of Relevance to INDOPACOM and Korea
• Data Centricity and the 1st Cavalry Division’s “Speed of Relevance” during Warfighter 23-04
• Pistol-Packing Padres: Rethinking Regulations Prohibiting Armed Military Chaplains
• Medal of Honor: Nine Chaplains
• Comedy in Combat Culture: Understanding the Use of Humor in Crisis and Conflict
• Rear Detachment Operations through a Project Management Framework
• Walking Point [poem]
• Creating the Modern Army: Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939
• Medal of Honor: Master Sgt. Earl D. Plumlee
• Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal, July-September 2023, v. 1, no. 3   
• The 105th Warrant Officer Birthday and Development Continues
• Reflecting on the Warrant Officer Birthday
• From Technical Experts to Transformational Leaders: How Warrant Officers Will Shape the Army of 2030
• Holistic Fitness During Primary Military Education Attendance
• Looking Through Athena’s Shield: The Case for the Missing Philosophy of Army Education
• The Most Prized of the Five Warrant Officer Competencies: Integrator
• Reviewing and Improving Standardization at Foreign Disclosure Offices
• Knowledge Equals Combat Power

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• 70 Years and Counting: The Path to Peace on the Korean Peninsula 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• China’s Agenda at the UN General Assembly: What to Expect in 2023 

 Atlantic Council

• Alternative Security Futures in the High North 
• Policy Memo: A NATO-Style Spending Target Could Fund Long-Term Decarbonization 
• Sleight of Hand: How China Weaponizes Software Vulnerabilities 
• Strengthening Financial Inclusion in the Caribbean: Treating Correspondent Banking Relationships as a Public Good         

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Covid-19: implications for the Indo-Pacific 

 CATO Institute

• Cutting Federal Farms Subsidies 
• The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Employment and Earnings 
• Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired? 
• School Choice Programs Need a Firewall for Homeschoolers 
• Sweden during the Pandemic 

 Center for Complex Operations (CCO)

• PRISM, v. 10, no. 3, September 2023  
• Innovation and National Security: Ash Carter’s Legacy
• Russia, Ukraine, and the Future Use of Strategic Intelligence
• Neutrality After the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: The Example of Switzerland and Some Lessons for Ukraine
• NATO and Cultural Property: A Hybrid Threat Perspective
• Challenges and Opportunities in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Critical Minerals
• An Ancillary Duty?: The Department of Defense Approach to Women, Peace, and Security in Security Cooperation Programs
• Organized Crime as Irregular Warfare: Strategic Lessons for Assessment and Response
• NATO’s New Center of Gravity
• Interview with the Honorable Hanno Pevkur: Minister of Defense of Estonia
• Interview with the Honorable Ināra Mūrniece: Minister of Defense of Latvia
• Interview with the Honorable Arvydas Anušauskas: Minister of National Defence of Lithuania

 Center for Global Security

• Examining the Energy Transition through the Lens of Great Power Competition 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• China’s Semiconductor-Related Export Controls [translation] 
• Translation Snapshot: Chinese Overseas Talent Recruitment 
• Understanding the Global Gain-of-Function Research Landscape 

 Center for Security Studies

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 328: Managing Disaster Costs 
• No. 329 : German Military Planning: Aims and Trade-Offs 
• Ukrainian Analytical Digest
• No. 1: Language Usage and Language Policy 

 Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Agile and Adaptable: U.S. and NATO Approaches to Russia’s Short-Term Military Potential 
• Cooperation amidst Great Power Rivalry: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 
• Inflection Point: The Challenges Facing Latin America and U.S. Policy in the Region 
• Leaders at the Table: Improving Global Food Security through Public-Private Partnerships 
• Manufacturing beyond Shores: The Taiwanese Checklist Approach to Intellectual Property Protection 
• Transatlantic Defense during Wartime 
• Using Unclassified U.S. Government Reporting in America’s Global Battles of Influence 

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

• Emerging Technologies and Automated Fact-Checking: Tools, Techniques and Algorithms 
• The Role of Technology: New Methods of Information Manipulation and Disinformation 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Valuing Data: Where are We, and Where Do We Go Next? 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The PLA’s New Base for Space Situational Awareness – Opportunities and Challenges for the U.S. 
• PRC Media’s Coverage of Mobility Guardian Projects Self-Confidence 

 Clingendael – Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• The New Iraqi Opposition 
• Promoting Diaspora Investment in Fragile Settings: The Case of Somalia 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• CBO’s Long-Term Projections of Gross Federal Debt 
• CBO’s Projections of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts: 2023 to 2033               
• Modeling the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations in the United States 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Infamous Chisel Malware Analysis Report 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Ukraine Fact Sheet
• September 6 
• September 7 

 Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2023-115 Evaluation of Land-Based Security Controls for Equipment Being Transferred by Rail to Ukraine 
• DODIG-2023-118 Audit of the Acquisition of the U.S. Air Force Three‑Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• My Summer in Beijing 
• Southeast Asia’s Hedging: A Strategic Opportunity for the European Union? 

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)               

• The Impact of Covid-19 Physical School Closure on Student Performance in OECD Countries: A Meta-Analysis 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Alone Together: How the War in Ukraine Shapes the Russian-Iranian Relationship 
• Star Tech Enterprise: Emerging Technologies in Russia’s War on Ukraine 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Assessing the European Citizens' Panels: Greater Ambition Needed 
• EU-Ukraine Wartime Trade: Overcoming Difficulties, Forging a European Path 

 European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

• Promoting Migrant Integration: Strengthening EU Law on Long-Term Residence: Report 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Easing, Suspending and Phasing Out: The Forgotten Potential of Sanctions Relief 
• India's G20 Presidency: A Showcase for Skilful Minilateralism 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• The Sustainable Development Goals Summit 2023: The Future of Multilateral Cooperation at Stake? 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

• Central Africa’s Aging Leadership at a Crossroads 
• Key US Intelligence Tool Set to Expire 
• Wagner’s Head is Dead, Now Bury the Body 

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

• How Authoritarian Regimes Counter International Sanctions Pressure 
• How to deal with Non-state Armed Actors [Infographic] 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• 2023 Global Organized Crime Index 
• All that Glitters: Revelation from a Kenyan Gold Smuggler 
• Port in a Storm: Organized crime in Odesa since the Russian Invasion 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Beyond Terrorism: Understanding the Diverse Violent Outcomes of Conspiracy Beliefs 
• Conspiracy Theories, Extremism and Violence: Why and When do Conspiracy Beliefs Lead to Violence? 
• Culture, Community and Narratives: Key Elements of Violent Conspiracy Theories 
• Social Control, Terrorist Content and the Online Safety Bill 
• Towards a Policy Framework for Addressing Violent Conspiracy Theory Movements 
• Why We Should Care about Christian Identity Ideology and its Links to Antisemitic Mobilisation 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Arctic Region: Factors That Facilitate and Hinder the Advancement of U.S. Priorities GAO-23-106002 
• DOD Service Contracts: Actions Needed to Identify Efficiencies and Forecast Budget Needs GAO-23-106123 
• Southwest Border: Additional Actions Needed to Address Cultural and Natural Resource Impacts from Barrier Construction GAO-23-105443 
• Space Launch System: Cost Transparency Needed to Monitor Program Affordability GAO-23-105609 

 Hudson Institute

• Helping the Afghan Allies America Left Behind 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Comparing Data Policy Priorities Around the World 
• How Expanding the Information Technology Agreement to an “ITA-3” Would Bolster Nations’ Economic Growth 
• How Skeptics Misconstrue the Link Between Drug Prices and Innovation 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report - September 2023 

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Links between Violent Extremism and Illicit Activities in Benin 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Iran Update
• September 5 
• September 6 
• September 7 
• September 8 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment 
• September 4 
• September 5 
• September 6 
• September 7 
• September 8 
• September 9 
• September 10 
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update
• September 7 
• Syria: Anti-Regime Protests Risk Crackdown 
• Syria Protest Update
• August 29—September 4 
• Time-lapse of Assessed Control of Terrain in Ukraine,  February 23rd, 2022, to August 31st, 2023 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Bipolar, Multipolar, Nonpolar All at Once 
• China’s Push-in Strategy in the Arctic and Its Impact on Regional Governance 
• The EU’s Entry Point into the Post-Tigray War Context 
• Reframing EU–Tunisia Relations: Democracy, Governance, Migration 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• The Glass of Societal Resilience – Half Empty or Half Full? Perceptions of Socio-Economic Threats and Wellbeing in Estonia 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Cyber Capabilities National Power Volume 2 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• The Fall from Grace of Russian SOF: The Danger of Forgetting Lessons Learned 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, September 8, 2023, v. 23, no. 16 
• The Chinese Debate on Economic Reform
• Coalitions of the Week: BRICS, ASEAN, the G20
• PLA Social Media Warfare and the Cognitive Domain
• Political Drivers of China’s Private Sector Demise
• Characterizing China’s Rule of Law
• Terrorism Monitor, September 8,  2023, v. 21, no. 18 
• Brief: Indonesia Reins in Islamic State Remnants
• Brief: Russian Wagner Group Faces Increasing Attacks From Sahelian Jihadists Amid Coup Fallout
• Al-Qaeda Issues Call for Revenge Against Nordic Countries Following Quran Burnings
• Al-Shabaab Threatens Ethiopian Security Ahead of ATMIS Withdrawal from Somalia
• Two Years on, State of Pakistani Security Continues to Deteriorate After Taliban Seizure of Afghanistan

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Examining the Energy Transition Through the Lens of Great Power Competition 

 Marine Corps University Press

• Journal of Advanced Military Studies, 2023, v. 14, no. 2 
• Russia’s War in Ukraine: Two Decisive Factors
• Russia’s Nuclear Strategy: Changes or Continuities
• Enemy at the Gates: A Strategic Cultural Analysis of Russian Approaches to Conflict in the Information Domain
• Revisiting the Global Posture Review: A New U.S. Approach to European Defense and NATO in a Post-Ukraine War World
• The Ethical Character of Russia’s Offensive Cyber Operations in Ukraine: Testing the Principle of Double Effect
• The Cold War Computer Arms Race
• The Devil’s Advocate: An Argument for Moldova and Ukraine to Seize Transnistria
• Tackling Russian Gray Zone Approaches in the Post–Cold War Era
• Plan Z: Reassessing Security-Based Accounts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
• The Russian Bloodletting Strategy in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: From Success to Hubris
• Substitute to War: Questioning the Efficacy of Sanctions on Russia
• The Race with No Finish Line: Assessing the Strategy of Regional Great Power Competition 

 MITRE

• Intelligence after Next: Strategy for a New Era—U.S. Special Operations Command Takes on Strategic Competition 
• Prototypes Point the Way Forward for Surface Safety 
• The South Pacific Influence Challenge: Sage Dragon Game Report 

 National Academies Press

• Effective Health Communication within the Current Information Environment and the Role of the Federal Government: Proceedings of a Workshop  
• Foreign-Funded Language and Culture Institutes at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education: Practices to Assess and Mitigate Risk  
• Test and Evaluation Challenges in Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Systems for the Department of the Air Force  

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• The Fallacy of “Deterrence by Detection” 
• How Many Nuclear Weapons Does Russia Have? The Size and Characteristics of the Russian Nuclear Stockpile 

 National Security Archive

• CHILE'S COUP at 50: Countdown Toward a Coup 

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2023, v. 100, issue 1 
• The Legal Boundaries of (Digital) Information or Psychological Operations Under International Humanitarian Law 

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program

• Double Deterrence: Two Challengers, One Defender 
• Strategic Culture – Its History, Issues, and Complexity 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Accelerating Global Health: Pathways to Health Equity in G20 
• India’s G20 Leadership: Elevating Capacity Building for Sustainable Development Financing 
• Reading the Tea Leaves: China’s Perspective on Ties with Pakistan and the CPEC’s Prospects 
• Taliban 2.0: Stronger or Moving Towards Fragmentation? 

 Our World in Data

• Causes of Death 

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Barriers to Addressing Climate Change-Related Losses and Damages in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 

 Pew Research Center

• Comparing Two Types of Online Survey Samples: Opt-in Samples are about Half as Accurate as Probability-Based Panels 

 Rand

• Creating Selective Overmatch: An Approach to Developing Cyberspace Options to Sustain U.S. Primacy Against Revisionist Powers 
• The Emergency Management Institute at 70: From Civil Defense to Emergency Management in an Education and Training Institution 
• Existing and Emerging Topics and Potential Priorities for the Safety and Security of the Maritime Environment 
• Impact of Individual Augmentation Policy on Navy Reserve Force Readiness 
• Insights on Implementing Technology-Enabled Human Resources Capabilities in the U.S. Air Force 
• Leveraging Commercial Space Services: Opportunities and Risks for the Department of the Air Force 
• Proposals to Address Political Interference: Outcomes of a Trilateral Dialogue 
• Rethinking Jointness? The Strategic Value of Jointness in Major Power Competition and Conflict 
• The Rise of Generative AI and the Coming Era of Social Media Manipulation 3.0: Next-Generation Chinese Astroturfing and Coping with Ubiquitous AI 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Maritime Reserves: Grasping the Opportunity 
• Stormbreak: Fighting through Russian Defences in Ukraine’s 2023 Offensive 

 Small Arms Survey

• All Alone in the Governor’s Mansion: Sarah Cleto’s Travails in Western Bahr el Ghazal 

 Small Wars Journal

• Legio Patria Nostra: A Blueprint for an American Foreign Legion 
• West Front Ukraine 2024? Thinking about NATO Intervention 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Elevating ESG: Empirical Lessons on Environmental, Social and Governance Implementation of Chinese Projects in Africa 
• Maintaining Momentum for the Ocean-Climate Nexus in 2023 
• Strengthening Africa’s Digital Infrastructure for Greater Economic Resilience 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 23-30-AR Emergency Food Assistance to Afghanistan: USAID Has Improved Oversight, But Could Better Align Monitoring with Increasing Aid Levels 
• SIGAR 23-31-FA USAID’s Advancing Higher Education for Afghanistan Development Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by FHI 360 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part IV: Two Strategic Challenges 

 Taylor & Franics

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2023
• Mechanisms of Online Radicalisation: How the Internet Affects the Radicalisation of Extreme-Right Lone Actor Terrorists [open access article] 
• Civil Wars, 2023
• Beans, Bullets and Bandages? Gendered and Racialised Othering in the Depiction of Military Support Work [open access article] 
• Defence and Peace Economics, 2023
• The Ascent of Geopolitics: Scientometric Analysis and Ramifications of Geopolitical Risk [open access article] 
• Cybersecurity For Defense Economists [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis, 2023
• Responding to Needs: Military Aid to Ukraine during the First Year after the 2022 Invasion [open access article] 
• Ukraine’s Third Wave of Military Reform 2016–2022 – Building a Military Able to Defend Ukraine against the Russian Invasion [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Reinvigorating Peace: A Critical Look at the UN’s New Agenda for Peace 
• “Rent-a-Soldier”: War as Business 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Multistakeholderism: Is It Good for Developing Countries? 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Understanding Illegal Methamphetamine Manufacture in Afghanistan 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The Palestinian Authority Thirty Years after Oslo 

 Wilson Center

• Global Health & Gender Policy Brief: Menstrual Health and Management