Thursday, May 30, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 05-17-2024 & 05-24-2024

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Army University Press

  • Through the Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Lens: Challenges Posed by the National Security Strategy [v.4 ] 
    • Strengthening Allies and Partners through Strategic Empathy and a Better Security Cooperation Definition
    • The Idyllic Imagination in US National Security Strategies
    • National Interests and their Expression in National Security Strategies
    • The Spectrum of Conflict: War, Peace, Deterrence, and the Use of Power
    • North Korean Nuclear Diplomacy: A Roller Coaster Past and Uncertain Future
    • Regional Impact of the Afghanistan Withdrawal on Indo-Pacific Allies and Partners
    • Climate Change, the Fountainhead of Great Power Cooperation
    • Trade Agreements Are a Component of Integrated Deterrence

 Army War College Press

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 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

 Booz Allen Hamilton

 Bruegel

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for American Progress

 Center for Data Innovation

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Eastern Studies

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chatham House

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Congress. Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group

 Congress. Senate. Finance Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

 Council on Geostrategy

 Council on Strategic Risks

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

 Department of State Inspector General

 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

 Georgetown Law

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • 2024 Annual Report: Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits GAO-24-106915 
  • Contract Financing: Factors That Influence the Use of Financing Methods and DOD's Progress on Proposed Actions GAO-24-106850  
  • Cyber Personnel: Navy Needs to Address Accuracy of Workforce Data GGAO-24-106879 
  • Decarbonization: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Department of Energy's Management of Risks to Carbon Capture Projects GAO-24-106489 
  • Electricity: Information on Peak Demand Power Plants GAO-24-106145 
  • Emergency Rental Assistance: Treasury Should Improve Data Completeness and Public Reporting GAO-24-107084 
  • F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter Production Issues and Modernization Delays GAO-24-106909 
  • Federal Workforce: Leading Practices Related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility GAO-24-106684 
  • Financial Management: Additional Steps Needed to Improve ICE's Budget Projections and Execution GAO-24-106550 
  • Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits GAO-24-107554 
  • Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts GAO-24-106524 
  • Military Health Care: DOD and VA Could Benefit from More Information on Staff Use of Military Toxic Exposure Records GAO-24-106423 
  • Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities GAO-24-106386 
  • Nuclear Nonproliferation: Efforts Are Underway to Address Factors Affecting the International Atomic Energy Agency's Safeguards Program GAO-24-106296 
  • Southwest Border: Additional Guidance and Monitoring Needed to Improve CBP's Handling of Personal Property GAO-24-106540 
  • Southwest Border: CBP Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Its Response to Incidents Involving Its Personnel GAO-24-106148 
  • United Nations: State Department Should Better Assess Its Efforts to Increase Employment of Americans at UN Agencies GAO-24-106127 
  • VA Health Care: Opportunities to Improve Access for Veterans Living in Rural Areas GAO-24-107559 
  • Veterans Affairs: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Care in the U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States GAO-24-106364 
  • Virus Field Research: Policy Options to Help Reduce Risks and Enhance Benefits GAO-24-106759 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for the Study of War

 Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

International Crisis Group

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Manhattan Institute

 Marine Corps University Press

  • Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2024, v. 15, no. 1 
    • Military Spacesteading: Space-based Logistics Mediums for Future Beachheads
    • The Void Above: The Future of Space Warfare and a Call to Update the Rule of International Space Law
    • The Soviet Sputniks and American Fears about the Militarization of Outer Space
    • Marine Corps and Space Force Integration for a More Lethal Joint Task Force to Counter China
    • A Call for Space-Domain Intelligence Training
    • Kim Jong United: How a Future North Korean ASAT Threat Makes Strange International Bedfellows and Novel Opportunity
    • Characterizing Future Authoritarian Governance in the Space Domain
    • Space Technology and Its Military Application: Options for Pakistan
    • Breaking the Newtonian Fetish: Conceptualizing War Differently for a Changing World
    • The Sky Is Not the Limit: The Unknowable Future of Space

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 New America

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Our World in Data

 Oxford University Press

 Pew Research Center

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG)

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 24-22-AR U.S. Funds Benefitting the Taliban-Controlled Government: Implementing Partners Paid at Least $10.9 Million and Were Pressured to Divert Assistance 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

 Tufts University

 UK Commission for Countering Extremism

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 UN Women

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Health Organization (WHO)