Friday's Miscellany 04-26-2024

 38 North

• New Construction at Sohae Satellite Launching Station 
• Pukchang Military Airfield Modernization Making Progress 
• What We Learned Inside a North Korean Internet Server: How Well Do You Know Your Partners? 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Togo Revises Constitution to Eliminate Term Limits: An Explainer 

 Air University Press

• Journal of the Americas, 2024, v. 6, no. 1 
• Perspective on the History of Aviation and Geopolitics
• 2041: Deterrence
• A Special Visit: Alexander de Seversky in Argentina
• A Brazilian Backed NATO
• Preventing China from Occupying Senkaku Islands and Taiwan by 2025
• China-Latin America Alignment and Democratic Backsliding: Gaining Traction for a Chinese-Led *World Order
• The Wrath of Khong: Science Fiction, Future Analogies, and Early Military Space Policy 

 Arizona State University

• Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations
• Winter 2023, v. 1, no. 2 
• Jedburgh Teams – Lessons For Unconventional Warfare
• Secret War in Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1960-1961
• Optimizing the Stalemate: Limited Conflicts and the Use of Special Operations Forces in the Context of Global Competition
• The 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) “Merrill’s Marauders:” Special Operations Force Strategic Success Through an Operational Concept in Burma
• The Liberator’s Dilemma: The Paradox Of American Leadership
• Fall 2023, v. 1, no. 1 
• Like a Bolt from the Blue: Relative Superiority and the Coup de Main Assault on the Caen Canal and River Orne Bridges, 6 June 1944
• Ten Surprising Lessons For Special Operations Forces From The First 20 Months Of Putin’s Full-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine
• Special Operations in the 21st Century: Revisiting the Falklands War
• Fighting Danger At Sea: The Quest For Speed In Special Operations
• Dynamic Ethical Decision-Making And Its Importance To Special Operations
• Counterterrorism is Strategic Competition

 Amnesty International

• Autonomous Weapons Systems in Law Enforcement:  Submission to the United Nations Secretary-General 
• Aftermath:  Injustice, Torture and Death in Detention in North-East Syria 

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

• Cyber Defense Review, Spring 2024, v. 9, no. 1 
• Operational Perspectives from the Field – ARCYBER in the Cyberspace Domain
• Mission Thread Analysis: Establishing a Common Framework in a Multi-discipline Domain to Enhance Defensive Cyberspace Operations
• Beyond USCYBERCOM: The Need to Establish a Dedicated U.S. Cyber Military Force
• 2023 Executive Order on Trustworthy AI Misses Issues of Autonomy and AI Multi-Threat Challenges
• Violent Limitation: Cyber Effects Reveal Gaps in Clausewitzian Theory
• Quantum Leap: Improving Cybersecurity for the Next Era of Computing by Focusing on Users
• How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Made Russia a Great Cyber Power
• Communities, Agency, and Resilience: A Perspective Addressing Tragedy of the Cyber Commons

 Army University Press

• Journal of Military Learning, April 2024 
• Teaching Creative Problem-Solving: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
• Fast-Tracking Student Success: Curriculum Adaptations for a Compressed Master’s Thesis Program
• Air Assault! Applying Learning Science to Army Skill and Knowledge Acquisition

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• The Principles for the Future of Warfare and Stand-Off Warfare 

 Atlantic Council

• The Flaws In Project-Based Carbon Credit Trading and the Need for Jurisdictional Alternatives 
• Natural Gas and the Energy Transition:  Security, Equity, and Achieving Net Zero 
• Navigating Dominant Narratives and Data Accuracy: Implications for Energy Security 

 Australian Army Research Center

• Understanding How to Scale and Accelerate the Adoption of RAS 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Addressing the ‘Crisis’ at the US-Mexico Border: Insights From El Paso and Ciudad Juárez 
• How the US-China Trade War and the Inflation Reduction Act Could Shape Mexico’s Nearshoring Future 

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• Challenging Biases and Assumptions in Analysis: Could Israel Have Averted Intelligence Failure? 
• Shaping Transatlantic Security: The EU’s Drive for a Stronger Defense Industry 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• Deficit Tracker [updated April 10, 2024]  
• Election Official Turnover Rates from 2000-2024 

 Brennan Center for Justice

• Securing the 2024 Election 

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Crisis Prevention and Management in South Asia: Mutual Confidence, Risk, and Responsibility 

 Brown University Costs of War Project

• How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Charting the Radical Right’s Influence on EU Foreign Policy 
• Exploring Law Enforcement Hacking as a Tool Against Transnational Cyber Crime 

 Cato Institute

• A Case for Federal Deficit Reduction 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Biotech Matters:  Public-Private Coordination of Biotechnology 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Boosting Europe’s Digital Leaders: A New Momentum for the D9+ 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Port Security and Emergency Response using Autonomous Systems: Virginia Pilot Program 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 312: The West and Russia's War of Aggression against Ukraine 
• Time to Make ‘Peace’ with the Bandits 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• CSIS European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues 
• Newcomers Bring New Rules:  Shared Leadership in a More Multipolar World 
• Pursuing Global Order in the Twenty-First Century 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Curtailing the Executive Emergency Powers: Congress’s Job, the Judiciary’s Headache 
• From the Halls of Montezuma: The Promise and Pitfalls of Designating Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations 

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

• Care and Control: Turkey’s Ambitions for ‘Its’ Domestic Abroad 
• Turkey in MENA, MENA in Turkey: Reasons for Popularity, Limits to Influence 
• Turkey’s Policy towards its Diaspora in Germany: Consequences for Bilateral and Intersocietal Relations 

 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

• Ukraine’s Reconstruction: Policy Options for Building an Effective Financial Architecture 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Does It Matter If Ukraine Loses? 
• Dilemmas and Challenges Around the EU Budget 
• Enrico Letta's Report: More Than a Market, but Less Than an Agenda 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Fire Damage to Muqrin, North Darfur 
• Fire Damage to the Commercial Area of Zamzam IDP Camp 
• Rising Reports of Femicide: New Digital Map Documents Cases of Violence and Repression of Afghan Women in ‘Public’ Roles 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• AI Innovation Concentration and the Governance Challenge 
• New Logics for Governing Human Discourse in the Online Era 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• Historical Context and the Good Lives Model 
• Women’s involvement in Online White Nationalism: A Good Lives Model Perspective 

 Chatham House

• Enhancing the Security of Civilians in Conflict 
• The Federal Budget and Health Care Policy 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Bridging the Gap: Accelerating Technology Adoption for Sustainable Food Production 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The PLA’s New Information Support Force 

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

• The Missing Pieces? How CEE Can Contribute to a Stronger European Approach to China 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Balancing Openness, Economic Security and National Security 
• Freedom isn’t Free 

 College of Europe

• The European Union’s Purchasing Power - An Analysis of the Role of the European Commission in the Health, Energy and Defence Sectors 

 Common Cause

• Storm Watch: Protecting Voters from Disinformation in the 2024 Election 

 Congressional  Budget Office (CBO)

• Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees in 2022 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Preventing U.S. Election Violence in 2024:  Contingency Planning Memorandum 

 Council on Strategic Risks 

• Climate Security and Misinformation: A Baseline 
• The Elephant in the Climate Room: Financing Sustainable Security and Supporting Future-Fit Systems 
• Geoengineering and Climate Change in an Age of Disinformation and Strategic Competition 

 Counter Extremism Project

• Extremist Content Online: Instagram Accounts Use Pro-ISIS Content to Encourage Acts of Terrorism 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Wooing Foreign Investors: Greenland Should Prepare for the Next Dispute 

 Defense Priorities

• Grand Strategy:  The Balance of Power 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• CY2022 Annual Report on Civilian Casualties in Connection with United States Military Operations 
• Ukraine Fact Sheet
• April 24, 2024 
• April 26, 2024 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2024-074 Review of the Army’s Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Harassment of Soldiers 
• DODIG-2024-076 External Peer Review of Air Force Audit Agency Special Access Program Projects 
• DODIG-2024-077 Review of DoD Education Activity's Efforts to Report and Respond to Discriminatory Harassment at Schools 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-24-22 CISA's Use of Infrastructure Investment and Job Act Funds 

 Department of State

• 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 
• Prior years [available on the right side] 

 Digi Americas Alliance

• Cyber Readiness in Latin American Public Sectors: Lessons from the Frontline 
• Spanish 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Russia Country Analysis Brief 
• U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves, Year-end 2022 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• EUAA Pilot Convergence Analysis 2023 
• Practical Tool for Guardians — Transnational Procedures in the Framework of International Protection 
• Sudan - Country Focus 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                   

• From Mines to Markets: How Africa and Europe Can Become Green Industry Partners of Choice 
• The Infinite Connection: How to Make the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor Happen 

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

• Strategic Risk Assessment in East Asia: A Japanese View 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Made in Ukraine: How the EU Can Support Ukrainian Defence Production 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• India’s Critical Minerals Strategy: Geopolitical Imperatives and Energy Transition Goals 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Funding Deterrence: Breakdown of the Indo-Pacific Supplemental Bill 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• (No) Bridge over Troubled Water: Maritime Food Transport as Networked Critical Infrastructure of the EU 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Building Resilience Against Election Influence Operations:  Preparing for the European Elections in 2024 and Beyond 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• An Industry of Crime:  Foreign Businesses and Illicit Practices in the Pacific 
• Politics at Play:  Geopolitics and Organized Crime in the Pacific 
• The Shadow Economy: Uncovering Cape Town's Extortion Networks 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Imagining the Past: Justifications of Ideology in Incel Communities 
• Moscow Attack: The Popularisation of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories in Mainstream Media 
• Unveiling Terrorist Influence: The Case of Pakistan’s 2024 General Elections 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Gaming the Political Economy of Conflict: A Practical Guide 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Biometric Identification Technologies: Considerations to Address Information Gaps and Other Stakeholder Concerns GAO-24-106293 
• Federal Maritime Commission: Improved Use of Data on Shippers' Complaints Could Enhance Oversight GAO-24-106368 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS) 

• Debating EU Enhanced Naval Presence in the Indo-Pacific: From Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) to Coordinated Maritime Presence (CMP) 
• Mixed Messages and the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy 
• Strategic Communication in the Indo-Pacific: Signalling EU Naval Commitment to the Region 
• Strategic Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: Partnership for Maintaining Inclusive and Stable Maritime Region 

 Heritage Foundation

• Funding Leftism, Making Power Grabs:  The Biden Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism 
• Marriagelessness and the Loss of National Greatness 

 Hive Systems

• Globally-Renowned Research Finds Hackers Can Still Crack Passwords Quickly 

 Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel

• Task Force Report 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• LATAM Health Champions, 2024 
• Technical and Legal Criteria for Assessing Cloud Trustworthiness 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• DATAWorks 2024:  Data Verification Validation and Accreditation for AI Enabled Capabilities 
• Effects of Certain Ethics Requirements on DOD Hiring, Retention and Operations 
• Legal, Ethical and Moral Implications of Machine Learning Tools 
• Navigating the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Regulatory Environment for Federal Contractors and the Department of Defense 

 Institute for Science & International Security

• Assessment of Israeli Strike on Iran near Esfahan 

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• African Growth and Opportunity Act: Mutually Assured Construction 
• Understanding Conflict between Locals and Migrants in SA: Case Studies in Atteridgeville and Diepsloot 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File, April 25, 2024: IS Somalia Expansion Benefits IS Global Network 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• April 26, 2024 
• Iran Update
• April 22 
• April 23 
• April 24 
• April 25 
• April 26 
• April 27 
• April 28 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• April 22 
• April 23 
• April 24 
• April 25 
• April 26 
• April 27 
• April 28 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Beyond Definitions: The Need for a Comprehensive Human Rights-Based UK Extremism Policy Strategy 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Public Opinion and Development Policy: Alignment Needed 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Extremism and the UK Policy Spiral 
• Ropes, Accelerationism, and the Enduring Legacy of the Turner Diaries 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Open-Source Analysis of Iran’s Missile and UAV Capabilities and Proliferation 

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Can the World Bank Deliver on Climate Change? Testing the Evolution Roadmap through Loss and Damage 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, April 26, 2024, v. 24, no. 9 
• Learning From National Security Education Day
• Planned Obsolescence: The Strategic Support Force In Memoriam (2015-2024)
• A Disturbance in the Force: The Reorganization of People’s Liberation Army Command and Elimination of China’s Strategic Support Force
• People’s Armed Forces Departments: Developments Under Xi Jinping
• Updated ILO Forced Labor Guidelines Directly Target Uyghur Forced Labor

 Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

• The New National Security Strategy and Responses to Cyber and Information Warfare 
• Transformation of China's Policy towards Taiwan - What's Novel about China's Taiwan Trade Barrier Investigation 

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

• Biden Administration’s Middle East Policy at a Time of War:  An Assessment of U.S. Policy Six Months Into the Israel-Hamas War 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• How Immigrants and Their U.S.-Born Children Fit into the Future U.S. Labor Market 
• The State of Global Mobility in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic 

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel? The Outlook for Cybersecurity Insurance and Transit in 2024 

 MITRE

• Stepping Into The White House: A Guide for Smooth Transitions and Effective Leadership 

 National Academies Press 

• AI for Scientific Discovery: Proceedings of a Workshop  
• On-Demand Services for Mobility, Logistics, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Use Cases  

 National Immigration Forum

• Coalition Border Security & Management Framework 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Expert Commentary on the 2023 Strategic Posture Commission Report 
• NATO’s Year of Deterrence 

 National Weather Service (NWS)

• HeatRisk [Interactive Map] 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• War on All Fronts: How the Kremlin’s Media Ecosystem Broadcasts the War in Ukraine 

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2024, v. 103, issue 1 
• Cyberspace and the Jus ad Bellum: The State of Play 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Bridging the Ingenuity Gap: Ideas for a Vibrant G20 
• Mapping the Arc of US Support to Ukraine: Economic, Political, and Strategic Imperatives 
• Mapping the Literature on Development Assistance in Health: A Bibliometric Analysis 
• Navigating the Indian Energy Trilemma: The Role of Liquefied Petroleum Gas 
• Steady, but Evolving: An Overview of Russia’s Migrant Labour Market 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the U.S. Southwest Border 

 Pew Research Center

• In Tight Presidential Race, Voters Are Broadly Critical of Both Biden and Trump 
• What Are Americans’ Top Foreign Policy Priorities? 
• What the Data Says about Crime in the U.S. 

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• The War on Gaza and Middle East Political Science 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Subsidizing the Military-Industrial Complex: A Review of the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows (SDEF) Program 

 RAND Corporation

• Assessing Risk to National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change:  2023 Risk Assessment Update 
• Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Education: Future Implications 
• Climate Change and Conflict: Implications for U.S. Central Command 
• Implications of Emerging Technology for UK Space Regulation Policy:  Findings of a Horizon Scan 
• Lessons from 9/11 for Supporting Veterans Exposed to Military Environmental Hazards:  Veterans' Issues in Focus 
• Measuring China's Science and Technology Progress:  A Framework for Assessing Advances Affecting Military Capability  
• Methodological Challenges for Research on Racial Bias in Police Shootings 
• Recommended Approaches for General Officer Promotions in the U.S. Space Force:  The Stars Above 

 Ransom Task Force

• Doubling Down: April 2024 Progress Report 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Combating Kleptocracy:  Lessons from the Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine 

 Small Arms Survey

• Persistent Perils: Illicit MANPADS in the MENA Region 

 Small Wars Journal

• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #52: Two Paramedics Killed in Attacks on Ambulances in Celaya, Guanajuato 

 Soufan Center

• Great Power Competition In The Twenty-First Century 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• The Geopolitics of Energy in the Post-COVID-19 Era The Impact of the CBAM on African Economies and the Role of the AfCFTA 
• Systemic Innovations for South Africa’s Energy Futures: Draft Strategic Framework 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 24-20-AR Afghanistan Competitiveness of Export-Oriented Business Activity Program: USAID Did Not Perform All Required Oversight and the Program Has Yielded Mixed Results 

 Stimson Center

• Whither Globalization: Retreat, Industrial Policy, Unintended Consequences 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• What Is Behind the Myth of Putin’s “Contract”? 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 

• China, Russia and the Future of Peacebuilding 
• Global Military Spending Surges amid War, Rising Tensions and Insecurity 
• Intangible Transfers of Technology and Software: Challenges for the Missile Technology Control Regime 
• Leveraging Livelihood Diversification for Peacebuilding in Climate- and Conflict-affected Contexts 
• Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2023 

 Taylor & Francis

• Civil Wars, 2024
• A Quarter of a Century of Civilian Protection: Contested Concepts and the Problem of Sovereignty [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis, 2024
• Artificial Intelligence and Arms Races in the Middle East: The Evolution of Technology and Its Implications for Regional and International Security [open access article] 
• How Conventional Arms Control Failures Caused the Russo-Ukraine War [open access article] 
• Military Adaptation to Combat Mentoring: Belgium’s Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team Experience [open access article] 
• Understanding Security Force Assistance: A Matter of Control? [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2024
• A Scoping Review on What Motivates Individuals to Illegally Harvest Wildlife [open access article] 
• Intelligence and National Security, 2024
• Caught Off Guard? Evaluating How External Experts in Germany Warned about Russia’s War on Ukraine  [open access article] 
• Counterintelligence and Escalation from Hybrid to Total War in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict 2014–2024 [open access article] 
• Intelligence Warning in the Ukraine War, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022 [open access article] 
• Swedish Intelligence, Russia and the War in Ukraine: Anticipations, Course, and Future Implications [open access article] 
• The Ukraine War and the Shift in Russian Intelligence Priorities [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2024
• Designing around NATO’s Deterrence: Russia’s Nordic Information Confrontation Strategy [open access article] 
• The Dual ‘Dual’ Policy: Two Conceptions of ‘Deterrence And Reassurance’ in Norwegian Security Policy and Analyses [open access article] 
• Looking Back to Look Forward: Autonomous Systems, Military Revolutions, and the Importance of Cost [open access article] 
• Protecting Civilians or Preserving NATO? Alliance Entanglement and the Bosnian Safe Areas [open access article] 
• Technological Determinism or Strategic Advantage? Comparing the Two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan [open access article] 
• Military Behavioral Health, 2024
• Desired Employment and Local Social Support: The Strongest Predictors for Wellbeing Outcomes amongst the Partners of Australian Military Members [open access article] 
• Implementation of a Supervisor-Led Resilience Training Extension in the Royal Military College [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2024
• The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data [open access article] 

 UK Ministry of Defense

• Defense Nuclear Enterprise Command Paper 

 UK Home Office

• Proscribed Terrorist Groups or Organisations 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Drug Trafficking in the Sahel 

 UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

• Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality 

 US China Business Council

• Annual Report on US Exports to China 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Huawei’s Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Views from the Region 

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

• MCWP 8-10 Information in Marine Corps 

 White House 

• IPEC Annual Intellectual Property Report to Congress 
• U.S. Government Global Health Security Strategy, 2024 

 Wilson Center

• Climate Priorities in the Middle East and North Africa 
• Climate Resilience and Democratic Governance in Central America’s Northern Triangle 
• Crypto in Venezuela: Two Sides of a Coin 
• Empire and Survival in Ukraine 
• How to Engage Sudanese Civilians in Security Sector Reform Negotiations? 
• Reimagining the OSCE for a New Generation