Thursday, July 17, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 07-11-2925

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 American Enterprise Institute

 American Security Project (ASP)

 Army War College Press

 Asia Society Policy Institute

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council                 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Business Council of Canada

 Canada. Department of National Defence

  • Canadian Military Journal, Winter 2025,  v. 25 no. 1 
    • Fighting Spirit and “Shared Responsibility”: Getting Civil-Military Relations Wrong
    • Response to Fighting Spirit and “Shared Responsibility”: Getting Civil-Military Relations Wrong
    • Renewing the Canadian Profession of Arms: The Making of Fighting Spirit
    • The Power of Vulnerability for Leaders and Their Teams
    • A Journey in Self-Reflection for the Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
    • Where is the Honour? Military Service, the Validation Dilemma, and the Power of Dignity
    • Aligning Actions with Aspirations: Navigating Values in the Canadian Armed Forces
    • Mastery not Mediocrity — A Profession’s Need for Expertise
    • Inspirational Behaviour Then and Now: Remembering Two Military Heroes of 1944
    • The Enduring Relevance of GBA Plus for Military Personnel and Operations
    • Chief of the Defence Staff and Canadian Armed Forces Chief Warrant Officer Closing Remarks

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 CCP Biothreats Initiative

 Center for American Progress

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for North American Prosperity and Security (CNAPS)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2025, v. 24, no. 1 
    • The Melian Dialogue of Donald Trump
    • A List of Bilateral Civilian Interstate Nuclear Cooperation Agreements
    • Canadian Tank Film Spring 2025 Manuscript
    • ‘King Makers and the King Breakers’ Perspectives on The Role of Intelligence Services in Shaping Geo-Politics and Power Dynamics at Global Level
    • Between Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Stalin: A Synthetic character of Mao Zedong’s Military Thought
    • Examining the Transformation of Israel's Military into a Professional Force through the Lens of Huntington's Civil-Military Relations Theory
    • Cutting Through the Tangled Webs of Civil and Military Aviation Toward a Practical Cybersecurity Framework

 Chatham House

 Chennai Centre For China Studies

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

 Council on Geostrategy

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Priorities

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-125 Audit of the DoD’s Efforts to Build Partner Capacity in the U.S. IndoPacific Command Area of Responsibility 

 Department of State Inspector General

  • AUD-SI-25-24 Audit of Selected Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Awards Supporting Stability and Assistance Efforts in the Western Hemisphere 

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

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

 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Financial Integrity

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Aviation Research and Development: FAA Could Improve Its Reporting on Safety Programs GAO-25-107697 
  • Cybersecurity: Implementation of the 2015 Information Sharing Act GAO-25-108509 
  • Economic Downturns: Considerations for an Effective Automatic Fiscal Response GAO-25-106455 
  • Fraud Risk in Federal Programs: Continuing Threat from Organized Groups Since COVID-19 GAO-25-107508 
  • Future-Years Energy Program: DOE Should Complete Required Reporting to Help Ensure Transparency in Spending GAO-25-107646 
  • In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing: Benefits, Challenges, and Policy Options GAO-25-107555 
  • Passport Services: The National Passport Information Center Has Taken Steps to Meet Customer Needs GAO-25-107409 
  • Space Operations: DOD Is Pursuing Efforts to Collaborate with Allies and Partners but Needs to Address Key Challenges GAO-25-108043 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 99 
    • The Impact of the Latest Military Technologies on Soldiers in a Potential US-China Confrontation
    • Challenge and Response in War
    • Turkey, Hard Power Politics, and Drones

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

 Institute for Science & International Security

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, July 11, 2025, v. 25, no. 13 
    • Divergent Implications for Xi’s Power from New Party Regulations
    • ‘Command Innovation’ Model Builds Momentum: Engineering Capital for Strategic Rivalry
    • Taiwan’s ‘Great Recall’ a Historic Bid to Overturn the Opposition’s Legislative Majority
    • Inside Taiwan’s Opposition: How the KMT’s Future Could Shape Cross-Strait Stability
    • PLA Military Aerospace Force: On the Frontier of Innovation and Competition
    • PRC Seeks Dominance in Submarine Power Cable Infrastructure
    • PLA Purges Provide Opening for Xi’s Rivals
    • The Xi–Lee Reset Extends Beijing’s Regional Project—and Tests Seoul’s Commitments
    • PRC Promotes Iranian Coverage and Showcases Advanced Weapon Systems
  • Eurasia Daily Monitor, v. 22, June 27, 2025 
    • Order of Battle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
  • Terrorism Monitor, July 15, 2025, v. 23, no. 3 
    • Brief: Iranian Branch of PKK Faces Uncertain Future Amid Regime Crackdown
    • Brief: Attack on Damascus Church Exposes Fragile Protection for Syria’s Christians
    • Indonesia’s Deradicalization Program Through the Lens of Umar Patek: From Bomb-Maker to Entrepreneur
    • Geopolitical and Strategic Implications of the Arakan Army’s Ascension in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
    • Jihadist Narratives in the Aftermath of India’s Airstrikes on Pakistan

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

 Marine Corps University Press

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  118, ( 3rd Quarter July 2025) 
    • Is Mobilization a Major Question?
    • Rightsizing the PLA Air Force: Revisiting an Analytic Framework
    • From High Seas to Highlands: Framing U.S. Defense Strategy with Southeast Asia’s Geography
    • Building Strategic Lethality: Special Operations Models for Joint Force Learning and Leader Development
    • The Philosophical Foundations of the Civil-Military Relationship
    • Finding Deepfakes: A Tabletop Exercise About AI, Decisionmaking, and Algorithmic Performance
    • T-BIRRD: Transforming the Future of Military and Humanitarian Logistics
    • Increasing Operational Access: A Strategy for the Western Pacific
    • Revive: Getting Medical Supplies and Expertise Right in Distributed Maritime Operations
    • A Conditions-Based Look at a Cyber Force
    • The Long Pivot: The Development of the Joint Warfighting Concept
    • Intelligence Reform at 20: How Joint Military Intelligence Lost Its Groove and How to Get It Back

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 Naval War College

  • Newport Papers no. 48 - The Art and Science of Naval Warfare: Essays in Memory of Wayne P. Hughes Jr. 
    • Sea Denial: The Other Side of the Sea-Control Coin
    • James J. Wirtz. "Can We Win the Battle before the War?
    • Wayne Hughes and Fleet Tactics: The Glue of Tactics Binds Loosely
    • Commissioning the Unsinkable Aircraft Carriers: Updating Hughes’s Tactical Framework to Include Land-Based Maritime Forces
    • Exploring the Effects of Countertargeting in Naval Warfare
    • The Salvo Equations and Future Fleet Architecture
    • Missed Opportunity: CS21 and Wayne Hughes’s Bimodal Navy
    • Christopher Kelley, and Lee Wahler. "Maritime Support Vessels for Special Operations
    • Network-Optional Warfare for Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations
    • The Conversation I Wish I Had with Wayne, or: Some Thoughts about “Stuff” and “How Stuff Is Employed
    • Practical Realities for Conceptual Worlds.
    • Wayne P. Hughes Jr. and the Art and Science of Warfare

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation   

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Arms Survey

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 25-26-FA USAID's Information Management for Disaster Risk Reduction and Response in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by iMMAP Inc. 
  • SIGAR 25-27-AR State Risk Assessments for Assistance Projects: Bureaus Prepared Required Assessments, But Inconsistencies May Increase Project Risk 
  • SIGAR 25-28-FA State's Drug Advisory and Treatment Projects: Audit of Costs Incurred by The Colombo Plan 

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UK National Audit Office (NAO)

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

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 US Space Command (USSPACECOM)

  • Apogee, 2025, v. 2, no. 1 
    • Sun Blocked: Space Weather Hindered U.S. Communications Before Fatal Afghanistan Firefight
    • Pushed to the Brink: Severe Solar Burst Reportedly Mistaken for Signal Jamming Nearly Triggered Bomber Launch
    • Max Attention on Space Weather: A Busy Solar Cycle and a Proliferation of Vulnerable Satellites Drive Growing Interest in the Work of Forecasters
    • An Emerging Global Response: Space Weather Knows No Political Boundaries, So Nations Work Together to Mitigate Its Impact
    • Stormy Weather: Heavy Toll of Solar Storms Spurs Race to Broaden Knowledge, Improve Technologies
    • Extreme Space Weather: Bad As They Were, the October 2003 and May 2004 Solar Storms Don’t Compare to the Carrington Event of 1859
    • Solar Surge: The Sun Is Far More Active Than Predicted — And Small Satellites Are Paying the Price

 University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute 

 V-Dem Institute

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS)   

  • Cadmus Journal July 2025, v. 5,  no. 4 
    • Sources and Solutions for Global Turbulence
    • Root Causes and Deep Drivers of Global Turbulence
    • The Peace Offensive: A New Strategic Framework for Conflict Resolution
    • A Call for a New Manifesto: Defending Humanity in an Age of Rising Extremism
    • AI as the Catalyst of the New Paradigm of Science?
    • From Citizen Science to Human Security: A Tool to Facilitate Members of Parliaments’ Engagement with Constituents
    • Funding the Sustainable Development Goals is Not a Challenge of Sufficient Capital
    • Securing the Future with Deep Tech, Quantum Information Science, and AI
    • Valuable Lessons from the 20th Century Yet to Be Mastered
    • China’s Export-Led Growth Model: Structure, Impact, and Strategic Implications for the Global Economy
    • European Contribution to Global Sustainable Development
    • Post-Schumpeterian Innovation Paradigm: A Dual-Wheel Drive of Technology and Regulation for Green Transformation
    • Unleashing the Synergy between Human Values and Digital Innovation: A Holistic Framework for Sustainable Future Management Education
    • Technological and Socio-Economic Progress Toward a Post-Monetary Civilization: From Utopia to Real Policymaking

 World Bank