Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 02-23-2024

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

  • Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower, Winter, 2023, v. 2, no. 4 
    • Israel’s Begin Doctrine: Preventive Strike Tradition and Iran’s Nuclear Pursuits
    • Ten Propositions Regarding Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence
    • Russo- American Strategic Nuclear Arms Control: New START or a New Start?
    • Airpower: A Game Changer in an India-China Limited Conflict
    • A Commercial Space Security Dilemma? The Dynamics of Commercial Competition in Space
    • Moral Injury to the State: US Security Policy and Great Power Competition
    • Integrated Emotional Manipulation: Implications of Contemporary Emotion Regulation Science

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Bruegel

 Cambridge University Press

 Canadian Defence Academy Press

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

  • Georgetown Security Studies Review, February 2024, v. 11, no. 2 
    • Of Lice and Men: America Needs to Rethink Its National Security Paradigm
    • What Made War Inevitable: Great-Power Competition and Civil War in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War
    • Arms, Ideology, and Alignment: Analyzing U.S.-Soviet Realignment During the Ogaden War
    • Reining in the Iranian Nuclear Threat: The Unviability of a JCPOA Revival and the Need for a New Game Plan
    • The Double-Edged Sword of Diplomatic Immunity: The ICJ and the Case Studies of Germany v. Italy and Mohammed bin Salman
    • Russian Influence and Disinformation Operations in the Balkans
    • Malaya to Vietnam: The British Counterinsurgency Model and Its Replication Challenges
    • Tightening the Screws: Examining the Efficacy of U.S. Sanctions Against Russia Amid the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • It’s All Connected: The Impact of Russian Sanctions on Global Trade Relationships
    • Decoding Beijing: Book Review of Susan Shirk’s Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
    • A Tale of Two Koreas: How the Diverging Korean Language Will Challenge Future Unification
    • The Decaying Superpower: A Review of the Russian Navy
    • Sharing Secrets: Why Do States Publicly Share Intelligence?

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2024, v. 23, no. 1 
    • The Past, Present and Future of Canadian Military Air Power
    • An Orphan Air Force
    • Some Problems with Airpower History
    • Sitting Ducks and Strategic Change. The Air Division in Europe, 1959 to 1967
    • Transformation of Canada’s Fighter Capability: A Generational Perspective
    • The Royal Canadian Air Force and the 2021 Kabul Air Evacuation: Lessons from an Ad Hoc Mission
    • The Calculus of Procurement
    • RCAF Procurement
    • Considerations for the Future of Canadian Military Air Power
    • Future of Air and Space (Aerospace) Power and the RCAF: An Exploration

 College of Europe

 Counter Extremism Project

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Defense AI Observatory  (DAIO)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2024-056 Evaluation of Sustainment Strategies for the PATRIOT Air Defense Systems Transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
  • DODIG-2024-057 Evaluation of the DoD's Sustainment Plan for Bradley, Stryker, and Abrams Armored Weapon Systems 

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 French Military School Strategic Research Institute (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire)

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA) 

 Global Center on Cooperative Security

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Coast Guard: Enhanced Safety Oversight Needed for Fish Tender Vessels GAO-24-106729 
  • DHS Annual Assessment: Most Programs Are Meeting Current Goals, but Some Continue to Face Cost and Schedule Challenges GAO-24-106573 
  • Offshore Oil and Gas: Interior Needs to Improve Decommissioning Enforcement and Mitigate Related Risks GAO-24-106229 
  • Ridesharing and Taxi Safety: Information on Assaults against Drivers and Passengers GAO-24-106742 
  • Small Business Administration: Targeted Outreach about Disaster Assistance Could Benefit Rural Communities GAO-24-106755 

 Henry Jackson Society

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 90, Iranian Proxies 
    • The United States Really Can Deter Iran, But Only If It Really Wants To
    • How to Stop Iran
    • Can Iran and Its Surrogates Be Contained?

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 International Forum for Democratic Studies

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, February 16, 2024, v. 24, no. 4 
    • Special Issue: Taiwanese Voices On The 2024 Elections
    • Civil Society Defense Initiatives
    • Seeds of the Sunflower Movement
    • KMT Bottom Lines Following The 2024 Election
    • TikTok: An Expanding Front in Cognitive Warfare
    • KMT Appeal To The Younger Generation
    • Analyzing Taiwan-PRC Relations in 2024 from the Perspective of PRC Internal Affairs and Xi Jinping’s Mode of Governance
    • Fortifying Taiwan: Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Era
  • Terrorism Monitor, February 21, 2024, v. 22, no. 3 
    • Brief: Maritime Threat Posed by Abu Sayyaf Curtailed by Philippine Counter-Piracy Efforts
    • Brief: Pro-Hamas Attackers in North America Remain Haphazard
    • Will Al-Shabaab Respond to Somaliland’s Red Sea Agreement with Ethiopia?
    • ‘Markay Hain Taiz Tar’: An Analysis of the Pakistani Taliban’s Final Propaganda Video of 2023
    • New Zealander Pilot’s Fate Unclear as Insurgents Launch Offensive in West Papua

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Manhattan Institute

 Marine Corps University Press

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 National Academies Press  

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • CSWP 29 The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 
  • IR 8477 Mapping Relationships Between Documentary Standards, Regulations, Frameworks, and Guidelines: Developing Cybersecurity and Privacy Concept Mappings 
  • SP 1299 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Resource and Overview Guide 

 NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Center

  • NMIOTC Maritime Interdiction Operations Journal, 2023, no. 25 
    • 14th NMIOTC Annual Conference, 2023: Energy Security and Maritime Interdiction: A Road to Pave in a Complex Security Environment
    • State Accountability in Seabed Extraction of Oil
    • Reflections and Analysis: The 7th NMIOTC Conference on Cybersecurity in the Maritime Domain
    • Assessing the Security and Resilience of ICT Supply Chain Services
    • Securing the Open Source Software Supply Chain for Critical Warfare Assets

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Niskanen Center

 Observer Research Foundation

 Our World in Data

 Pew Research Center

 Rand Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 US Fire Administration (USFA)

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 02-16-2024

 38 North

 Air University Press

  • Air & Space Operations Review, Winter 2023, v. 2, no. 4 
    • Organizational Dynamics of Toxic Leading: Obstacles and Key Concepts
    • Defining Toxic Leading for the Air Force
    • Organizational Toxicity: Inner Circles of Harmful Leadership
    • The ADOO Loop: A Decision-Breaking Cycle of Toxic Fellowship
    • "We Few, We Band of Brothers": Organizational Toxicity in History and Film

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2024, v. 31, no. 1 
    • Ivermectin Prescription Fill Rates among U.S. Military Members during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
    • Weight Loss Medication Prescription Prevalence in the Active Component, 2018–2023
    • The Four Most Frequently Diagnosed Vector-borne Diseases among Service Member and Non-Service Member Beneficiaries in the Geographic Combatant Commands, 2010–2022
    • A Content Review of Articles Published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, 2019–2023
    • Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities through Week 48, Ending November 30, 2023

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Institute of Criminology

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Brookings Institution

 Bruegel 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

  Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 335: The Challenges of Wartime Polling in Ukraine 
    • No. 336: Watching Armed Conflicts from Space 
  • Russian Analytical Digest
    • No. 308: Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy 
  • Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
    • No. 4: Negotiations, Security, and Eu-Integration 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, February 2024, v. 17, no. 2 
    • Going the Distance: The Emergence of Long-Range Stand-Off Terrorism
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Christopher Maier, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
    • Somalia’s Stalled Offensive Against al-Shabaab: Taking Stock of Obstacles

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

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

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 French Institute of International Relations (IFIR)

 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)          

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Climate Change: Options to Enhance the Resilience of Federally Funded Flood Risk Management Infrastructure GAO-24-105496 
  • Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Greater Transparency Could Improve Worker Ratio Reports GAO-24-106698 
  • DHS Employee Misconduct: Actions Needed to Better Assess Differences in Supervisor and Non-Supervisor Discipline GAO-24-105820 
  • DOD Intelligence: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Oversight and Manage Risks GAO-24-106190 
  • DOD Law of War Policies: Actions Needed to Ensure Proper Reporting and Retention of Alleged Violations GAO-24-107217 
  • Environmental Cleanup: DOD Should Communicate Future Costs for Red Hill Remediation and Closure GAO-24-106185 
  • K-12 Education: DOD Has Taken Steps to Support Students Affected by Problematic Sexual Behaviors, but Challenges Remain GAO-24-106182 
  • The Nation's Fiscal Health: Road Map Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels GAO-24-106987 
  • Online Extremism: More Complete Information Needed about Hate Crimes that Occur on the Internet GAO-24-105553 
  • Puerto Rico Disasters: Progress Made, but the Recovery Continues to Face Challenges GAO-24-105557 
  • VA Health Care: Opportunities Exist to Further Meet Student Veterans' Mental Health Needs GAO-24-106620 
  • Whistleblowers: Disclosures and Retaliation Complaints to Pandemic Auditors GAO-24-106655 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Crisis Group

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, February 16, 2024, v. 24, no. 4 
    • Special Issue: Taiwanese Voices On The 2024 Elections
    • Civil Society Defense Initiatives
    • Seeds of the Sunflower Movement
    • KMT Bottom Lines Following The 2024 Election
    • TikTok: An Expanding Front in Cognitive Warfare
    • KMT Appeal To The Younger Generation
    • Analyzing Taiwan-PRC Relations in 2024 from the Perspective of PRC Internal Affairs and Xi Jinping’s Mode of Governance
    • Fortifying Taiwan: Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Era
  • Terrorism Monitor, January 31, 2024, v. 22, no. 2 
    • Brief: Can Mozambique Keep Cabo Delgado Secure from Islamic State Fighters?
    • Brief: Violence from Bandits Beginning to Overshadow Boko Haram in Nigeria
    • Jaish al-Adl and the Persistent Hostilities between Iran and Pakistan
    • Israeli End Goals in Gaza: A Palestinian Expulsion?
    • Israel–Hamas War’s Impact on Afghan and Pakistani Jihadist Ecosystem

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Microsoft Security Insider

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 Munich Security Conference (MSC)

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  112, ( 1st Quarter, January 2024) 
    • When Does Gray Zone Confrontation End? A Conceptual Analysis
    • Position, Navigation, and Timing Weaponization in the Maritime Domain: Orientation in the Era of Great Systems Conflict 
    • Microgrids for the 21st Century: The Case for a Defense Energy Architecture
    • A New Form of Accountability in JPME: The Shift to Outcomes-Based Military Education
    • Accelerating Cyber Leader Development: A Call to Action for Service War Colleges
    • An Interview with Anthony J. Cotton
    • Wicked Deterrence Challenge: The Changing Strategic Landscape
    • New Strategic Deterrence Frameworks for Modern-Day Challenges
    • Preventing the Nuclear Jungle: Extended Deterrence, Assurance, and Nonproliferation
    • Don’t Get Lost in the Numbers: An Analytic Framework for Nuclear Force Requirements Debates
    • From “Made in China” to “Created in China”: Intellectual Property Rights in the People’s Republic of China
    • The “Survival Chain”: Medical Support to Military Operations on the Future Battlefield
    • Converting a Political- to a Military-Strategic Objective
    • Applying Three Decisionmaking Models to the Lakota Sioux Wars

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

  • Security & Strategy, January 2024, v. 4 
    • Cislunar Security: U.S. and Chinese Activities in Cislunar Space and Future Issues
    • Hypersonic weapons of the U.S., China, and Russia: Implications for Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control
    • Revisiting the “Cap-in-the-Bottle” Thesis: Negotiations and Disagreements among Japan, China, and the U.S. in the early 1970s
    • Japan’s Security Policy Making after Political Reforms: Centralization and Constraints since the First Abe Administration
    • Digital Transformation of the Chinese Air Force: Initiatives Observed in the PLAAF’s Introduction of a New Maintenance Management System
    • Supplying Operation to Guadalcanal: From a Japanese Perspective

 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

  • Defence Strategic Communications, Autumn, 2023, v. 13 
    • All Washed Over by Machines of Loving Grace
    • Speaking in Riddles on Trisolaris: Communicating Liberal Democracy to the Disillusioned
    • The Institutional Branding of Jowett and O’Donnell’s Propaganda and Persuasion (1986–2019)
    • Cracking the Nut in Iraq
    • Deterrence and Disinformation: Communicating Deterrence in a Non-Linear Media Environment
    • Cybersecurity in Political Studies: A Scoping Review

 Naval War College

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 New America

 NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Pandemic Response Institute (PRI)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Wars Journal

 Soufan Center

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stanley Center

Lessonsfrom Effective Offices of Violence Prevention 

 Strategic and Defence Studies Center—Australian National University 

 Swisspeace

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 Tech Transparency Project

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

 UN Women

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 Wilson Center 

 World Bank