Friday's Miscellany 02-28-2025 & 3-07-2025

 38 North

• Kim Jong Un’s 20×10 Project Achieves Year One Successes 
• Kim Jong Un Plots Continued Renewal of Pyongyang 
• Quick Take: First Look at North Korea’s Airborne Early Warning Aircraft 
• Quick Take: Sinpo-C Class Submarine Leaves Drydock 
• The Shadow of Low Birth Rate in North Korea and Its Implications for the Economy 
• Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center: Snowfall Shows Activity 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• The DRC Conflict Enters a Dangerous New Phase 
• Mapping China’s Strategic Port Development in Africa 
• Militant Islamist Groups in Africa Sustain High Pace of Lethality 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Getting Specific on DOGE Efficiencies:  Opportunities for Defense 
• Strategic Opportunities and Risks in the East Asia and Pacific Region (testimony) 
• The Ukraine Reparation Loan Solution 
• The (Un)Intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions Through the Dark Shipping of Sanctioned Oil 

 Amnesty International

• A Deafening Silence: Ukrainians Held Incommunicado, Forcibly Disappeared and Tortured In Russian Captivity 
• Lebanon: Israeli Attacks on Healthcare Providers Must Be Investigated as War Crimes 
• Lives in Limbo: Devastating Impacts of Trump’s Migration and Asylum Policies 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), February 2025, v. 32, no. 2 
• External Cause Coding of Injury Encounters in the Military Health System Among Active Component U.S. Service Members, 2016–2019
• Development of a New Fleet Disease and Injury Surveillance Capability using ESSENCE
• Surveillance Snapshot: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Incidence in Active Component U.S. Service Members, 2017–2023
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 1, Ending January 4, 2025

 Army Center of Military History

• Army History Magazine, Winter 2025, no. 134 
• Light Fighters: The 7th Infantry Division (Light) and the Late Cold War, 1983-1989
• Not Without Blemish: The Career of Brig. Gen. Fred A. Safay, Florida National Guard
• Silent but Deadly: The High Standard Model HDMS
• The Art and Artifacts of Combat Artist and War Correspondent Tom Lea

 Army University Press

• Journal of Military Learning, February 2025 
• Feedback from the Field for the Captains Career Course Common Core: Relevance to Outcomes-Based Military Education
• Memory Processes Behind Leader Identity Formation and Its Effects on Soldier Development: A Machine Learning Approach
• Army University Telework: A Case Study in Organizational Learning to Promote Rapid Culture Change
• Military Review, March-April 2025, v. 105, no. 2 
• Exploring Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cyber and Information Operations Integration
• Lessons on Public-Facing Information Operations in Current Conflicts
• Prioritizing Maintenance Restructuring and Resourcing for Autonomous Systems
• Leveraging Data for Warehouse Distribution Success During Operation Allies Welcome: A Retrospective on Operationalizing Data
• What Constitutes a Capability? Leveraging the Ukraine Experience to Define an Overused Term
• Theater Armies: Complex Yet Indispensable to Multidomain Operations
• Authorities and the Multidomain Task Force: Enabling Strategic Effect
• Army Fires: Enabling Joint Convergence in a Maritime Environment
• Invest in Battlefield Obscuration to Win During Large-Scale Combat Operations
• What Can We Learn from Measuring Unit Culture? Preliminary Evidence from a Data-Centric Approach to Organizational Performance
• Nine Narratives Destroying American Diplomacy and How to Counter Them 
• Sino-Vietnamese Defense Relations
• The Army Civilian Corps’ Elusive Culture of Commitment
• Terminological Terrain: How to Map and Navigate Jargon in Professional Writing
• Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
• Medal of Honor: Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson, U.S. Civil War

 Army War College Press

• Assessing the Zeitenwende: Implications for Germany, the United States, and Transatlantic Security 
• Freezing Point:  PLA Army Expeditionary Units Lack Readiness for Extreme and Hazardous Cold Weather 

  Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Strategies of the Philippines, China, and the US in the South China Sea in 2025 and Future U.S. Policies on Alliances and the Indo-Pacific Region 

 Asia Society Policy Institute

• Rise of CCP Young Elites and Xi Jinping’s “Tsinghua New Army” 
• That's What (Economic) Friends are For: Guiding Principles to Boost Supply Chain Security 
• The Japan-U.S. Alliance at a Pivotal Moment and the Path Ahead 
• Key Takeaways from China’s Two Sessions in 2025 
• U.S.–China–Southeast Asia Relations in a Second Trump Administration 
• Xi Jinping’s Purges Have Escalated. Here’s Why They Are Unlikely to Stop 
• What to Watch at China’s Two Sessions in 2025 

 Aspen Digital

• Second and Third Order Effects of A.I. 

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Full Speed Ahead: Integrating Kinetic Drones into the Combined-Arms Battalion 

 Atlantic Council

• The Art of the Transatlantic Deal 
• Building Balanced Institutions for Prosperity 
• Deterring Chinese Aggression Takes Real-Time Intelligence 
• Demography and Geopolitics Put Japan’s Strength to the Test 
• Emerging Technology Policies and Democracy in Africa: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Zambia in Focus 
• The EU Must Become a Strategic Player in Defense—Alongside NATO 
• Financing the Future: Unlocking Private Capital for Global Infrastructure and Climate Goals 
• Fragmentation and the Role of the IMF 
• From Tunis to Baghdad: Can Platform-Based Politics Take Root? 
• How Greater Freedom Empowers Entrepreneurs and Expands Access to Credit 
• Making AUKUS Work:  The Case for an Indo-Pacific Defense Innovation Consortium 
• Mexico’s Fork in the Road: Rule of Law or Authoritarian Shift? 
• Toward Equitable Debt Contracts:  Preventing de Facto Seniority-Clause Escalation in the Sovereign Lending Space 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• State-sponsored Economic Cyber-espionage for Commercial Purposes
• Assessing the Preparedness of Emerging Economies to Defend Against Cyber-enabled IP Theft 
• Governmental Practices in Protecting IP-intensive Industries 
• Tackling an Invisible But Persistent Risk to Prosperity 

 Australian Submarine Agency

• Australia’s AUKUS Submarine Industry Strategy 

 Boston Consulting Group

• Overcoming the Six Unspoken Barriers That Impede Defense Innovation 

 Brookings Institution

• Achieving “Peace Through Strength” in the 2020s 

 Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project

• Consuming War: How Pop Culture Captures Our Attention and Fuels Forever Wars 

 Bruegel

• Defending Europe Without the U.S.:  First Estimates of What is Needed 
• Europe’s Challenge and Opportunity:  Building Coalitions of the Willing 
• Reinforcing EU Merger Control against the Risks of Acquisitions by Big Tech 
• U.S. Defense Industrial Base Can No Longer Reliably Supply Europe 
• Ukraine: European Democracy’s Affordable Arsenal 

 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

• Federal Firearms Licensee Theft/Loss Report - 2024 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Ending the New Wars of Attrition:  Opportunities for Collective Regional Security in the Middle East 
• Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Americans: 2024 Survey Results 
• Geothermal Energy and U.S. Competitive Advantage: Drill, Baby, Drill 
• How the U.S. Can Stop Losing the Race for Clean Energy 
• Minerals, Manufacturing, and Markets:  Foreign Policy for U.S. Energy Technology and Minerals 
• The Missing Pieces in India’s AI Puzzle:  Talent, Data, and R&D 
• Regaining Geopolitical Advantage:  How to Focus U.S. Foreign Policy for Clean Energy 
• Rocks vs. Chips:  How the U.S.-China Competition is Playing Out for High-Tech Advantage 
• Will Kuwait’s Parliamentary Democracy Be Restored, Reformed, or Repudiated? 

 Cato Institute

• The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies 
• Terrorism and Immigration 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Safe and Effective: Advancing Department of Defense Test and Evaluation for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems 
• Sanctions by the Numbers: 2024 Year in Review 

 Center for American Progress

• Syria’s Transition and the Shadow of the Arab Uprisings 
• Trump’s Rash Immigration Actions Place Cruelty and Spectacle Above Security 

 Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)

• Meta Policy Changes Threaten 97% of its Hate Speech Enforcement 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Recommendations for a Transatlantic China Policy 

 Center for European Reform (CER)

• Can Keir Starmer Reset Relations with the EU? 
• How the UK and the EU can Deepen Defence Co-Operation 

 Center for Peace Through Strength

• 3rd annual National Security Innovation Base (NSIB) Report Card 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• State of AI-Related Apprenticeships 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Caucasus Analytical Digest
• No. 141: Georgian Politics after the Parliamentary Elections 
• Policy Perspectives v. 13, no.  2 
• Towards a Holistic Approach to PeaceTech Ethics
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 324: Environmental Activism 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• AI Power Surge:  Growth Scenarios for GenAI Datacenters Through 2030 
• Carrots, Sticks, and Sledgehammers:  Trump’s Options for Reducing U.S. Oil Prices 
• DeepSeek, Huawei, Export Controls, and the Future of the U.S.-China AI Race 
• Electricity Supply Bottleneck on U.S. AI Dominance 
• Enhancing Defense Industrial Cooperation Between Australia and the United States 
• Europe’s Trillion Dollar Opportunity to Save Ukraine—and the Free World 
• Ghana:  Facing Internal and External Threats Without Citizen Support 
• Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo:  Where is the Security Partnership? 
• Machine Learning Meets War Termination:  Using AI to Explore Peace Scenarios in Ukraine 
• Nigeria: Building Citizen-Centric Security in the Middle of Conflict 
• Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire 
• Sourcing Requirements and U.S. Technological Competitiveness:  Buy America Requirements and the IIJA Broadband Deployment Programs 
• Sourcing Requirements and U.S. Technological Competitiveness:  Evaluating the Impact of National Security Guardrails in the CHIPS Act 
• The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East 
• Ukraine’s Future Vision and Current Capabilities for Waging AI-Enabled Autonomous Warfare 
• Vying for Regional Leadership in the Horn of Africa:  Kenya and Ethiopia, Competitors or Partners? 

 Chatham House

• How Migrant Smuggling Has Fueled Conflict in Libya:  A Systems Analysis of Key Transit Hubs 
• The Shape-Shifting ‘Axis of Resistance’: How Iran and Its Networks Adapt to External Pressures 
• Ukraine’s Fight for Its People: Strategies for Refugee and Diaspora Engagement 

 Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI)

• Over 1,000 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia—But Some Remain 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• China's Air Defense Radar Industrial Base 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

• European Defence: The Urgency of Shifting to Fifth Gear 
• Kush in Sierra Leone:  West-Africa’s Growing Synthetic Drugs Challenge and Europe’s and China’s Part in It 
• NATO and the Need to Strengthen Resilience:  The Dutch Case 
• Security and Stability Scenarios for the Western Balkans 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, February 2025, v. 18, no. 2 
• Teenage Terrorists and the Digital Ecosystem of the Islamic State
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Deputy Chief David Kowalski, Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department
• The May 2024 Ulu Tiram Attack: Islamic State Extremism, Family Radicalization, Doomsday Beliefs, and Off-the-Grid Survivalism in Malaysia

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Effects of Climate Change on GDP in the 21st Century 
• How Changes in Revenues and Outlays Would Affect Debt Service, Deficits, and Debt 
• Legislation Enacted in the Second Session of the 118th Congress That Affects Mandatory Spending or Revenues 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action 
• Tariffs on Trading Partners:  Can the President Actually Do That? 
• Ukraine, NATO, and War Termination 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Anti-Americanism Will Remain the Foundation of the PRC’s Foreign Policy 
• China, Science and Technology:  Advancing Geopolitical Aims 

 Crowdstrike

• CrowdStrike 2025 Global
Threat Report /

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• China's Green Belt and Road 
• China's Promotion of Overseas Green Projects 
• Decolonisation in the Second Space Age 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality 
• Guidance for Department of Defense Civilian Employees on Responding to the Office of Personnel Management's "What You Did Last Week" Email 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-073 Evaluation of DOD’s Efforts Under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Republic of the Philippines 
• DODIG-2025-074 Part 1:  Understanding the Results of the Audit of the FY 2024 DoD Financial Statements 
• Operation Enduring Sentinel and Other U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan  

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Best Practices for Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Supporting Critical Infrastructure 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-25-17 The Coast Guard Faces Challenges Interdicting Non-Commercial Vessels Smuggling Drugs into the United States 
• OIG-25-18 FEMA Established a Process to Review Hermit's Peak Assistance Claims but Did Not Meet Required Processing and Reporting Timeframes 
• OIG-25-19 TSA's Activities Enhanced Passenger Rail Security and Preparedness, but More Can Be Done 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Angola Country Analysis Brief 
• U.S. battery capacity increased 66% in 2024 
• U.S. Movements of Crude Oil By Rail 

 Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)

• Trapped at Sea: Exposing North Korean Forced Labour on China’s Indian Ocean Tuna Fleet 

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

• Protecting Maritime Infrastructure from Hybrid Threats: Legal Options 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Deadly Skies: Drone Warfare in Ethiopia and the Future of Conflict in Africa 
• Geopolitical Greenery: How Decarbonisation Can Speed the Western Balkans Towards the EU 
• Split Decision: Why Sudan is on the Brink of Partition—Again 

 European Governance and Politics Programme

• Global Risks to the EU 2025 

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

• Blessed are the Peacemakers: Making a Ceasefire Agreement in Ukraine Stick 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Between Ambition and Pragmatism:  The Future of Cyber Capacity-building in a Fragmented World 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Anguilla's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Bosnia and Herzegovina's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Guernsey's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Guyana's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Montserrat's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• São Tomé and Príncipe's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

• Addressing Environment-Related Risks in the EU’s Crisis Management: From Greening to Foresight and Preparedness 
• BRICS+ and the Age of Multipolarity: Why Turkey and Saudi Arabia Remain Cautious 
• EU and NATO in Pursuit of Better Deterrence:  Baltic Sea Sabotage Prompts Rethink of Current Practices 
• Russia’s War Dilemma: Can the Kremlin Seek Peace Without Losing Face? 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Counterterrorism Shortcomings in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger 
• Forceful Taiwan Reunification: China’s Targeted Military and Civilian-Military Measures 
• The Future of the US in Europe: A Proposal 
• Is Taiwan Fever Breaking in Lithuania? 
• The Kremlin’s Balancing Act:  The War’s Impact On Regional Power Dynamics 
• A Photo Op Goes Sideways: Causes and Effects of the Trump-Zelensky Fracas 
• The Risk of Foreign Intrusion in Presidential Elections in Cote d’Ivoire 
• Russia and China in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Use of the Instruments of Power 
• Something Old, Something New: Transatlantic Discords in the Second Trump Presidency 
• Turkey’s Return to Africa 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Blackout:  International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security 
• Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort 

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

• China-Russia Partnership and the Ukraine War:  Aligned But Not Allied 
• Jammu and Kashmir in the Aftermath of August 2019 

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

• Data-Centric Authoritarianism:  How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

• China’s Arctic Turn:  Reasons, Developments, Perspectives 
• Cyber Activity Balance 2024:  The European Union in Focus 
• Fall of the Assad Regime:  Regional and International Power Shifts 
• How Elections Can Shape Long-Term Political Views:  Lessons from the 2005 Ethiopian National Election 

 German Marshal Fund of the United States

• Germany's Role in a Changing Global Order 
• A Reconstruction Law for Ukraine: From Band-Aids to Lasting Solutions 
• Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Cashing in on Conflict: Illicit Economies and the Myanmar Civil War 
• Evaluating Cocaine Market Interventions:  How External Shocks and Disruption of Criminal Networks Impact the Cocaine Trade and Social Outcomes
• Kush in Sierra Leone:  West Africa’s Growing Synthetic Drugs Challenge
• Second Security and Development Dialogue on Environmental Crime: Building Common Ground and Momentum in Multilateral Discussions 
• Tomorrow’s Fire:  Future Trends in Arms Trafficking from the Ukraine Conflict 
• Transnational Organized Crime and the Pacific Islands [A Paper Series] 
• A Crowded Space: Foreign Organized Crime Groups in the Pacific Islands
• Building resilience: How to counter organized crime in the Pacific islands
• An industry of crime: Foreign businesses and illicit practices in the Pacific
• Politics at Play: Geopolitics and Organized Crime in the Pacific
• Violent extremism and organized crime 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)         

• AI or Aryan Ideals? Part Two: A Thematic Content Analysis of White Supremacist Engagement with Generative AI: Discourse 
• Decoding Saboteurism: An Explanation of Infrastructure Attacks by Far-Right Extremists 
• The EU’s AI Act: Implications on Justice and Counter-Terrorism 
• Free the Captives: Islamic State Central Asian Fundraising Networks in Support of IS Families in Syria and Iraq 
• Hate, Harms and Hashing: An Overview of OFCOM Guidance for P/CVE 
• Mapping the Enemy, Mobilising the Future: Surveillance and Recruitment Strategies of Lakurawa Terror Group in Nigeria 
• The Rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria: From Wartime Propaganda to Diplomatic Rhetoric 
• Policing Extremism on Gaming-Adjacent Platforms: Awful but Lawful? 
• “Watching Foids Seethe is Actual Lifefuel”: Celebratory Male Supremacism in the Aftermath of the 2024 US Presidential Election 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Traffic Control: FAA Actions Urgently Needed to Modernize Systems GAO-25-108162 
• Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure: More Than $7 Billion Reportedly Needed to Address Deteriorating Assets GAO-25-107851 
• Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure: Project Backlogs Reportedly Exceed $7 Billion GAO-25-108064 
• Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure:  More Than $7 Billion Reportedly Needed to Address Deteriorating Assets GAO-25-107851 
• Defense Innovation Unit: Actions Needed to Assess Progress and Further Enhance Collaboration GAO-25-106856 
• DHS Annual Assessment: Improved Guidance on Revised Acquisition Goals Would Enhance Transparency GAO-25-107317 
• Disaster Resilience: FEMA Should Improve Guidance and Assessment of Its Revolving Loan Fund Program GAO-25-107331 
• DOD Real Property: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Underutilized and Excess Facilities GAO-25-106132 
• DOD Satellite Communications: Reporting on Progress Needed to Provide Insight on New Approach GAO-25-107034 
• Federal Real Property: Congress and Agencies Have Acted to Address Key High-Risk Issues but Challenges Remain GAO-25-108028 
• Financial Management Systems: VA Should Improve Its Requirements Development, Cost Estimate, and Schedule GAO-25-107256 
• High-Risk Series: Heightened Attention Could Save Billions More and Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness GAO-25-107743 
• High-Risk Series: Heightened Attention Could Save Billions More and Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness GAO-25-108125 
• Laser Communications: Space Development Agency Should Create Links Between Development Phases GAO-25-106838   
• Oversight of EPA and DOE Spending: Implementing Remaining GAO Recommendations Could Help Address Identified Challenges GAO-25-108135 
• Persistent Chemicals: DOD Needs to Provide Congress More Information on Costs Associated with Addressing PFAS [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 25, 2025] GAO-25-107401 
• Science and Technology: GAO's Support for Congress GAO-25-107724 
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Medical Use of Psychedelics GAO-25-108021 
• Shipbuilding and Repair: Navy Needs a Strategic Approach for Private Sector Industrial Base Investments GAO-25-106286 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2025, v. 18, no. 1 
• The Impact of Small-Scale Conflicts on Post-Soviet Alliances
• Reconstructing Russian Strategic Culture: Narratives, Othering, and the West
• Dangerous Legitimacy: The Risks of Normalizing Hamas As a Fundamentalist Terror Group In Western Discourse
• Rethinking Cyber Deterrence: Adapting to the Realities of the Digital Battlefield
• Cyber Security Of Autonomous Vehicles: The Implications For City Planning
• Security Conditionality: Evidence and Effectiveness
• Communicating Assessments with Impact: Insights from the Scientific Community
• American Extremism: An Evolutionary Process
• Understanding the Strategic Value of the Assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana
• Latin America’s Policing and Reform in the Age of Crime Fear

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Gambling on Armageddon:  How U.S. Nuclear Policies Are Undercutting Deterrence and Lowering the Threshold for Nuclear War 
• Hybrid AI and Human Red Teams:  Critical to Preventing Policies from Exploitation by Adversaries 
• Preventing Starvation Crimes:  Lessons Learned from Tigray 

 Heritage Foundation

• A Road Map for Rebuilding America’s Nuclear Arsenal 
• It’s Time to End Special Trading Privileges for China 
• Look to the Seas:  Why a Regional Focus in the North and South Strengthens NATO Deterrence 
• Nullifying DEI at DOD 

 Hudson Institute

• Nonproliferation in Great Power Competition 
• Sino-Russian Interactions Regarding Kazakhstan 

 Human Rights Watch

• Poisonous Profit: Lead Waste Mining and Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment in Kabwe, Zambia 
• Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Inflation Reduction Act Is Negotiating the United States Out of Drug Innovation 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Retain the Family:  What It Takes to Keep Dual-Income Military Households 
• Retain the Family:  Redefining the Military Compensation Benchmark 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report — February 2025 
• The New Nuclear Research Reactor at Esfahan 
• Updated Analysis of Russian Shahed 136 Deployment Against Ukraine 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• Fostering Order in the Indo-Pacific:  What the EU Can Learn From and Do With Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam 
• Report of the Webinar on China’s Rapacity for Mining Tibetan Resources:  When Will the Greed End? 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Shared Endeavour Fund: Call Four Evaluation Report 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• February 27, 2025: SAF Advances West Toward Darfur; M23 and DRC Reset as International Pressure Grows on Rwanda; ISSP Poses Clear Transnational Threat; al Shabaab Central Somalia Offensive 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• March 7, 2025 
• Fact Sheet: Istanbul Protocol Draft Document of April 15, 2022 
• Iran Update
• February 24 
• February 25 
• February 26  
• February 27   
• February 28  
• March 3 
• March 4 
• March 5 
• March 6 
• March 7 
• Putin Deepens Russia's Ties with US Adversaries as US-Russia Talks Begin 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• February 24 
• February 25 
• February 26  
• February 27   
• February 28  
• March 1 
• March 2 
• March 3 
• March 4 
• March 5 
• March 6 
• March 7 
• March 8 
• March 9 
• Understanding Syria’s Emerging Insurgency 
• The West Must Offer Syria's Interim Government Tightly Conditioned Aid against an Emerging Assadist Insurgency 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The G7 and Sustainable Agri-Food Systems’ Transformation 
• Giorgia Meloni’s Italy between Trump and Europe 
• A Three-year War and Four Lessons for Europe 
• Trump’s Exit from the Paris Agreement 

 International Crisis Group

• Containing Domestic Tensions in War-hit Lebanon 
• Curbing Violence in Latin America’s Drug Trafficking Hotspots 
• Finding a Way Out of Festering Conflict in India’s Manipur 
• Ukraine and Beyond: Shaping Europe’s Security Future 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• China’s Use of Export Controls 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, February 28, 2025, v. 25, no. 4 
• Multiple Multipoles:  Distinguishing Definitions Between Beijing and the West
• Energy and AI Coordination in the ‘Eastern Data Western Computing’ Plan 
• PRC Dominance Over Global Port Infrastructure
• War Memorials put the Party Front and Center for 80th Anniversary
• Xi Seeks to Woo Foreign and Domestic Business

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• Firearm Purchaser Licensing: Research Evidence to Inform State Policy 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• The Gulf of Guinea: A Primer 
• In Denied Areas: Lessons from the British Special Operations Executive and Jedburghs 
• The Northern Flank: The Arctic--Implications for SOF 
• Red Teaming: A Tool to Conduct Risk Assessment, Develop Critical Thinking, and Challenge SOF Strategic Planning Assumptions 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Breaking Barriers: How Provinces Can Drive Canada’s Prosperity by Unlocking Trade and Labour Mobility 
• Canada's Greenwashing Amendment: A Failure of process and Policy 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• China’s Fragile Online Spaces for Debate 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Adaptation Efforts May Reduce Harms amid Significant Climate-Linked Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa 
• Trump Administration Bends U.S. Government in Extraordinary Ways towards Aim of Mass Deportations 
• Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Demography:  A Canadian Case Study 

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• Air Force and Space Force Vectors for the Incoming Trump Defense Team 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

• U.S.-Japan Technology and Economic Security:  Achieving Resilience in an Era of Disruption 

 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) 

• Vital Signs 2025:  The Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base 

 National Institute for Public Policy

• Journal of Policy & Strategy, 2025, v. 5, no. 1 
• A Modest Proposal to Improve Joint Professional Military Education
• The Biden Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Employment Guidance – Increased Cost and Reduced Deterrent Effectiveness
• Academia and the Armed Forces: Formal Colleagues or Passing Acquaintances?
• U.S.-Iran Confrontation after the Hamas-Israel War: Proxy Wars, Nuclear Strategy, and Eschatology
• The 1991-1992 Presidential Nuclear Initiatives and the Cascading Effects on U.S. Alliances
• The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty: When Strategic Arms Control Undercuts U.S. Extended Deterrence and Assurance Goals
• The Impact of Arms Control Misconceptions on Extended Deterrence and Assurance
• German Defense Policy: Where to Now? 
• Next Steps in Arms Control?  Lessons from Moscow’s New START Violations 
• Struggling with The Bomb:  Competing Discourses in the Nuclear Disarmament Movement 

 National Security Archive

• The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Democratising Data Integration. Standardising Communication Protocols for Interoperable Data Processing and Analytics Tools in Strategic Information Environments 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Note 13: PLA Navy Enhances Realistic Combat Training: Observations of PLA Navy Operations Around Taiwan 
• CMSI Translations #15: Inscribing Loyalty While Endeavoring to Advance into the Deep Blue 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, v. 106, 2025 
• The Obligation of “Due Regard” in the EEZ During Armed Conflict at Sea 
• Rudderless and Adrift: States’ Unwarranted Timidity Respecting Stateless Vessels 

 New America

• A Sustainable Path for AI Development to Empower Communities and Serve Public Interests 

 Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)

• Strategic Distraction:  Pyongyang’s Proxies Target South Korea’s Reactors 

 Observer Research Foundation 

• Africa Pivots to China’s Global Security Initiative 
• Budget 2025-26: Milestones, Misses, and the Road Ahead for India’s Climate-Resilience Goals 
• The Changing Contours of Private Credit: The Market Implications of a Seemingly Endless Stream of Supply and Demand 
• A Decadal Snapshot of India’s Soft Power Strategies (2014-2024) 
• Gulf Cooperation Council: Aiming for Relevance in a Changing Region 
• The Imperative for Technical Reservists in the Indian Army 
• Introducing the Arctic as a Strategic Geopolitical Pillar for India 
• The Northeast Region’s Place in India’s Indo-Pacific Vision 
• Securing Local Food Systems and Ensuring Access to Nutritious Food in Rural Africa and India: The Promise of Regenerative Agriculture 
• The Urban Density Debate: India’s Story 

 Our World in Data

• “Cool” Years are Now Hotter than the “Warm” Years of the Past: Tracking Global Temperatures through El Niño and La Niña 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Eight Principles for the 2025 Tax Policy Debate (That Republicans and Democrats Should Be Able to Agree On) 

 Pew Research Center

• Americans Continue to View Several Economic Issues as Top National Problems 
• Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off 
• Religious Landscape Study 
• U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace 

 Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)

• Report on the Terrorist Watchlist 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Saudi–Israel Normalization: Parameters for an Acceptable Deal 
• The Ukraine War After Three Years: Roads Not Taken 

 RAND Corporation

• The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) and the Health of the Active Component: Understanding the Link Between the ACFT and Personnel Health and Injuries 
• Automated Grading for Efficiently Evaluating the Dual-Use Biological Capabilities of Large Language Models 
• Effects of High-Altitude Nuclear Explosions on Non-Military Satellites 
• Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis:  The Space Domain and Critical Infrastructure 
• Improving Transition Support for Those Leaving the Military 
• Insuring Catastrophic Cyber Risk 
• Military Compensation and Food Insecurity: Analysis in Support of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation  
• A Missile Jamming and Engagement Model 
• On the Eve of Obstruction—Countering Blockship Attacks:  Preventing and Mitigating Attacks Using Ships to Block Key U.S. Waterways 
• A Review of the Military Basic Pay Table:  Analysis in Support of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation 
• Thinking Through Protracted War with China:  Nine Scenarios 

 Rethink Trade

• The Digital Trade Data Heist: Trade Agreement Limits on Data Transfer and Storage Regulation Could Undercut Data Governance 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Case for Greater Mission Specialization by NATO’s European Air Forces 
• Global Compendium on Responsible Cyber Behavior 
• Net Assessment of Russian and NATO Capabilities in a Modern Strike Campaign 
• RUSI Maritime Sanctions Taskforce:  Second Meeting Report 
• Strengthening the Financial Frontline on Russian Trade Sanctions 
• Women, Peace and Security Agenda in NATO and Beyond:  The Way Forward 

 Small Arms Survey

• Open Markets: Documenting Arms Availability in Afghanistan under the Taliban 

 Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

• Fusion Power: Enabling 21st Century American Dominance 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Addressing Fragility Through Integrated Peacebuilding 
• Ukraine the World’s Biggest Arms Importer; United States’ Dominance Of Global Arms Exports Grows as Russian Exports Continue to Fall 

 Taxpayers for Common Sense

• DOGE Needs to Hunt for Real Budget Savings 

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2025
• Challenging the Youth Assumptions behind P/CVE: Acknowledging Older Extremists [open access article] 
• The Discourse of Terror: Carceralism, Border Politics, and Security in Aotearoa New Zealand [open access article] 
• ‘Enemy of the State’: Citizenship Deprivation and the Problem of Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters [open access article] 
• French Normalisation of Exceptional Powers as a Response To Terrorism Post-Paris Attacks [open access article] 
• Insurgencies as Gendered Organisations: A Synthetical Approach to Understanding Gender Relations in Insurgent Groups [open access article] 
• The Necropolitics of Drone Bases and Use in the African Context [open access article] 
• “No Punishment is Enough for Monsters”: Vindictiveness as an Important Political Emotion in Dealing with Belgian (potential) returnee men [open access article] 
• Pain & Power: What the Pains of Counterterrorism Tell Us About the Workings of Counter-Terror Power [open access article] 
• Poor, Brainwashed and Immature: Prevalent Gender Stereotypes in Indonesian Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) and Counterterrorism (CT) Efforts [open access article] 
• Prevent and Post-16 Education: The Implications for Muslim Women [open access article] 
• Resilient Non-Radicalisers: Beating the Odds Through Non-Radicalisation Despite Significant Suffering [open access article] 
• Defence Studies, 2025
• The Challenges and Opportunities for Academics in Professional Military Education [open access article] 
• Culture: A Sixth Domain and the Introduction of the ‘C6ISRT’ Framework [open access article] 
• Ensuring Security of Supply: Pragmatic Defence Autarky and Finland’s Defence Industry [open access article] 
• Fighting to Adapt: A Study of the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Cognitive Flexibility in Swedish Army Brigades [open access article] 
• The Interplay of Capability and Complexity in Military Context: Definitions, Challenges, and Implications [open access article] 
• NATO, Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament in an Age of US ambivalence [open access article]   
• Operating Itself Safely: Merging the Concepts of ‘Safe to Operate’ and ‘Operate Safely’ for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Containing Artificial Intelligence [open access article] 
• The Power Dialogue: Rethinking Senior Officer Political Influence [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis, 2025
• Bridging Which Gaps? The European Union’s Use of Private Military and Security Companies in Common Security and Defence Policy Missions [open access article] 
• Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2025
• Improving Affected Victims and Community Reintegration of former Boko Haram Terrorist Defectors in Nigeria: A Community-Informed Participatory Action Research [open access article]   
• Geopolitics, 2025
• Iranian Drones at the Service of Authoritarian Geopolitics [open access article] 
• Sheltering the Nation: The Politicisation of Ukraine’s Civilian Shelters Amidst Russia’s Aggression [open access article] 
• ‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2025 
• Intelligence as an Instrument of Coercion: The Case of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) in Botswana [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2025
• From Evasion to Retaliation: Exploring the Motivations Behind Assaults on Police [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2025
• Fragmented Frontiers: Three Approaches to Understanding Irregular Warfare [open access article] 

 UK Parliament

• Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defense 
• Global Combat Air Program 

 UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner

• Colombia – UN Report Urges State to Protect Civilians and Their Rights amid Ongoing Violence by Armed Groups 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Afghanistan Drug Insights Volume 4, Drug Trafficking and Opiates Stocks 
• Opiates and Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Balkan Route: Drug Flows, Illicit Incomes and Illicit Financial Flows 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• China Exploits Thailand’s Crackdown on Scam Compounds to Grow Security Influence 

 Wilson Center

• Behind the Headlines:  Debunking Misconceptions of Cryptocurrency and Crime 
• Civil Society and Nuclear Risk Reduction 
• Getting Points on the Board: A Playbook for Near-term Improvements to the Competitiveness of American Shipbuilding Starting with Polar Icebreakers 
• Kennan Cable No. 98:  Kennan, Roberts, and the Special Relationship: Lessons for the Strategic Contest with Moscow 
• Microprocessors | A Partnership for Innovation: From “Made in Mexico” to “Designed in North America” 
• Safeguarding Democracy Through Ethical Digital Campaigning and Preservation of Digital Freedoms 

 World Bank

• AI for Risk-Based Supervision: Another Nice to Have Tool or a Game-Changer 
• International Debt Report 2024 
• Services Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific