Friday's Miscellany 09-05-2008

Air University
Air & Space Power Journal
Fall 2008, v. 22, no. 3
· The Transformation of Air Forces on the Korean Peninsula by Lt Gen Stephen G. Wood, USAF and Maj Christopher A. Johnson, DM, USAF, USAF
· Airpower Imbalance: Nuclear Pakistan’s Achille’s Heel by Air Commodore Tariq Mahmud Ashraf, Pakistan Air Force, Retired
· Redefining Air, Space, and Cyber Power by Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF
· The Strategic Role of Airpower: An Indian Perspective on How We Need to Think, Train, and Fight in the Coming Years by Air Commodore Arjun Subramaniam, Indian Air Force
· Rethinking the Combined Force Air Component Commander’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Approach to Counterinsurgency by Lt Col Michael L. Downs, USAF
· Revisiting South African Airpower Thought: Considering Some Challenges and Tensions in Southern Africa by Dr. Francois Vreÿ and Dr. Abel Esterhuyse
· Strategy and Cost: A Gap in Our Military Decision-Making Process by Lt Col Lawrence Spinetta, USAF
· Go Pills in Combat: Prejudice, Propriety, and Practicality by Dr. John A. Caldwell

Strategic Studies Quarterly
Fall 2008, v. 2 No. 3
· The Requirement for a Future Strategy by Gen John A. Shaud
· USAF Cyberspace Command: To Fly and Fight in Cyberspace by Maj Gen William T. Lord, USAF
· A China Policy for the Twenty-First Century by Amb. Chas W. Freeman Jr., US Foreign Service, Retired
· A Time for Action: The Case for Interagency Deliberate Planning by Col Sami Said, ANG, Lt Col Cameron G. Holt, USAF
· US Foreign Policy toward North Korea: A Way Ahead by LCDR Robert F. Ogden II, USN, Lt Col David A. Anderson, USMC, Retired
· Harnessing the Islamist Revolution: A Strategy to Win the War against Religious Extremism by Dan Green

American Enterprise Institute
· The Autumn of Mubarak
· The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement

Amnesty International
· UN Counter-Terrorism Review Should Make Human Rights a Priority

BASIC
· Afghanistan Update, No. 40

Brookings Institution
· The Beijing Olympics and China’s Soft Power
· The IMF's Role in Low-Income Countries: Issues and Challenges
· Next Generation Financial Reforms for India

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Engaging Pakistan—Getting the Balance Right
· Minding the Gaps: U.S. & India Views on Nuclear Cooperation

Center for American Progress
· How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq
· Somalia: A Country in Peril, a Policy Nightmare
· Think Again: Remember Iraq?
· Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess in the First Place

Center for Defense Information
· Countdown to Air Force Cyber Command Stopped
· Space Security Update #6: Sept. 5, 2008

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
· Building Democracies and Markets in the Post-Conflict Context

Center for New American Security (CNAS)
· Iran: Assessing U.S. Strategic Options

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Covering the Afghan-Pakistan War
· A Resolute Strategy on Georgia
· Security Challenges and Threats in the Gulf: A Net Assessment
· Transferring Provinces to Iraqi Control: The Reality and the Risks

Combat Studies Institute
· Scouts Out! The Development of Reconnaissance Units in Modern Armies

Congressional Budget Office
· Contractors' Support of U.S. Operations in Iraq
· Behavioral Economics: Lessons from Retirement Research for Health Care and Beyond
· Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· U.S. Trade Strategy

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2008-125 Summary of Information Assurance Weaknesses Found in Audit Reports Issued From August 1, 2007, Through July 31, 2008, September 2, 2008

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· ODNI Releases Contractor Numbers

EU Institute for Security Studies
· Back to the Future? US-Russia Relations After Georgia

European Law Enforcement Cooperative
· EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2008
· European Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA) 2008

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· How We Misunderstand Terrorism
· Terrorism Assumptions and Reality

Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
· Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges
· Peace Operations and Organised Crime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Health Care: Oversight of Military Services' Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Completion Rates Is Limited
· Drug-Free Communities Support Program: Stronger Internal Controls and Other Actions Needed to Better Manage the Grant-Making Process
· Various Issues Led to the Termination of the United States-Canada Shared Border Management Pilot Project

Heritage Foundation
· As Gustav Lands, There Are Lessons to Be Learned
· The Eighth Defense Ministerial of the Americas: End of the Line?
· Fukuda's Resignation Reflects Japan's Political Gridlock
· Olympic Invasion: China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia's Aggression
· Textbook Appeasement: The State Department and the Islamic Saudi Academy

Hoover Institution
· China Leadership Monitor No. 26

Human Rights Watch
· Human Rights Watch Observations on the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Draft Protocol on Cluster Munitions: Prepared for the Meeting of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts
· Libya: Rights at Risk

Institute for the Study of War
· Iraq Report -- Special Groups Regenerate
· Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
· Bosnia and Herzegovina: Broader and Improved Support for Durable Solutions Required
· Georgia: Tentative Return of Some of the People Who Fled August 2008 Conflict
· Internal Displacement to Urban Areas: The Tufts-IDMC Profiling Study

International Crisis Group
· CrisisWatch N°61, 1 September 2008

International Relations and Security Network
· Ahmadinejad Plans for Victory
· Angola: A Vote for the Books
· Bosnia: The Algerian Six Prepare Their Cases
· Iraq, Iran, China: The Emerging Axis
· Letter: The Long Way Home in Dili
· Rumblings of Dissent on Bashir Indictment
· Swiss Banks Position for US Elections
· Tzipi Livni: Grasping the Nettle
· US: Bush's Foreign Policy Footsteps

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
· Finding Leaders: Preparing the Intelligence Community for Succession Management

Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
· Indo-Soviet Relations: New Russian Evidence
· Selective Bibliography on the Cold War Alliances
o HTML
o PDF

RAND
· A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment

Henry L Stimson Center
· Cross-Strait Relations: First the Easy Steps, Then the Difficult Ones
· Iraq’s Children: From Insurgents to Civilians?
· The New Foreign Menace? Sovereign Wealth Funds and US National Security

Strategic Studies Institute
· The View from There

US Institute of Peace
· Haiti: Confronting the Gangs of Port-au-Prince
· Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir
· Pakistan After Musharraf’s Departure
· Securing the Future: A Primer on Security Sector Reform in Conflict Countries

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Reconsidering Hamas: A View from Amman
· Terrorist Threat and U.S. Response: A Changing Landscape

World Trade Center Medical Working Group of New York City
· 2008 Annual Report on 9/11 Health

Friday's Miscellany 08-29-2008

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
High Frontier Journal, August 2008, v. 4, no. 4

• National Security Space Collaboration as a National Defense Imperative by Mr. Scott F. Large
• Mission Assurance—A Key Part of Space Vehicle Launch Mission Success by Maj Gen Ellen M. Pawlikowski
• Building an Integrated Intelligence Network: Challenges and Opportunities by Dr. Pete Rustan
  Transforming National Space Security: Enabling DoD and Intelligence Community Defensive Space Control Collaboration by BG Jeffrey C. Horne
• Reflections on the Integration of Black and White Space by Brig Gen Katherine E. Roberts
  National Security Space – A Personal Perspective: An Interview with General Thomas S. Moorman Jr., USAF, Retired by Mr. George W. Bradley III and Dr. Rick Sturdevant
• National Security Space Collaboration Constructing a National Security Space Plan by Mr. Joseph D. Rouge
• Assuring Access to Space: The Partnership Continues by Col John G. Stizza
• Common Language, Common Culture: How the Space Community Must Change Language and Perspective to Achieve Cross-Domain Integration and Dominance by Lt Col Dana Flood
• Rescuing Apollo: Building Consensus toward a National Strategy for Space by Maj Patrick A. Brown

American Enterprise Institute

• Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict

BASIC

• The Dilemma between Deterrence and Disarmament: Moving beyond the Perception of China as a Nuclear Threat
• Iran Update, No. 124

Brookings Institution

• 7 Years to Climate Midnight

Center for American Progress

• The Terrorism Index

Center for Defense Information

• U.S. Policy Brief: The Need for a Strategic Dialogue with China

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention: The Role of the United Nations

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• The Challenges to U.S. National Security
• Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
• The Future Security Environment
• Future Security Environment Presentation
• Investment Strategies Presentation
• Strategic Competence Presentation
• U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
• U.S. Defense Budget—Options and Choices for the Long Haul

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Abandon Ships: The Costly Illusion of Unaffordable Transformation
• Commentary: Conditions-Based U.S. Withdrawals from Iraq
• Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 12 - August 21, 2008
  Promoting the Southeast Asia Weapons Free Zone

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Pandemic Influenza Storybook: Personal Recollections from Survivors, Families, and Friends

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Russia's Security Ties in Asia

Department of Energy

• Next Generation Nuclear Plant Licensing Strategy: A Report to Congress

Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Conference Call with Dr. Ronald Sanders, Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital: Results of the Fiscal Year 2007 U.S. Intelligence Community Inventory of Core Contractor Personnel

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• How We Misunderstand Terrorism

German Development Institute (DIE)

• The EU's Central Asia Policy and its Implications for China
• Poor and Powerful: The Rise of China and India and the Implications for Europe
• Reforms in the EU's Aid Architecture and Management

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• FAA Airspace Redesign: An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Project
• Grants Management: Attention Needed to Address Undisbursed Balances in Expired Grant Accounts
  Hurricane Katrina: Continuing Debris Removal and Disposal Issues
• Military Personnel: DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08924.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Challenges on the U.S.–Mexico Border: A Panel Discussion
• The EU Must Express Solidarity with Georgia at Its Emergency Summit
• Europe's Catalogue of Failures in Georgia
• Exploring Concepts of Liberty in Islam
• Real Solutions for Challenges on the Mexico-U.S. Border: The Mérida Initiative
• Russia's Recognition of Independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia Is Illegitimate: They Are Not Kosovo

Human Rights Watch

• Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks

Institute for Security Studies

• Democracy Yet to Take Root in Burundi

International Association of Chiefs of Police

• "To Protect and Defend": Challenges to Public Safety and Homeland Security Facing the Next U.S. President

International Crisis Group

• Burundi: Restarting Political Dialogue
• Russia vs Georgia: The Fallout
• Thailand: Political Turmoil and the Southern Insurgency

International Relations and Security Network

• Global Trends: A Perfect Storm
• ME Space Race Heats Up
• Nepal: Starting on the Wrong Foot
• The New Map of Georgia
• Peru on Alert
• Russia, Iran: Crisis of the West
• US: Cyberwar Turf Battle Continues

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)

• Recent Terror Blasts in India: How Should We Respond?
• Structural Roots of Authoritarianism in Pakistan

Jamestown Foundation

• NATO Ministerial Meeting Deals Gingerly with Russia's War on Georgia

Lexington Institute

• Sea-Based Missile Defense: Expanding the Options (A Joint Study by the Center for American Progress and the Lexington Institute)

Mother Jones

• Mission Creep: Interactive Map of US Military Presence Throughout the World

National Academies Press

• The Offshoring of Engineering: Facts, Unknowns, and Potential Implications

RAND

• Dangerous Thresholds: Managing Escalation in the 21st Century
• An Examination of Options to Reduce Underway Training Days Through the Use of Simulation
• Improving the Cost Estimation of Space Systems
• Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM

Henry L Stimson Center

• The Georgian Conflict: More than a US-Russia Showdown
• The Political Economy of Hydropower Dam Construction in Vietnam

Strategic Studies Institute

• The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World
• U.S. Counterterrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, and Conflicts

UN Office of Drugs and Crime

• Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008
• Map of Opium Cultivation in 2008 in Afghanistan

US Coast Guard

• Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Information Technology (C4&IT) Strategic Plan

US Institute of Peace

• Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy: Solutions for Two Million Percent

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Amman Warms to Hamas
• The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt

Friday's Miscellany 08-22-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· Drill, Don't Redistribute http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28506,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
· Why Groups Go to Extremes http://www.aei.org/books/bookID.959,filter.all/book_detail.asp

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
· Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security http://www.aicgs.org/documents/pubs/polrep33.pdf
· Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution http://www.aicgs.org/documents/pubs/polrep34.pdf

Atlantic Council
· Restoring Georgia’s Sovereignty in Abkhazia http://www.acus.org/docs/Restoring%20Georgia's%20Sovereignty%20in%20Abkhazia.pdf

BASIC
· Afghanistan Update No. 39: 31 July - 14 August 2008 http://www.basicint.org/update/AFG080814.htm

Brookings Institution
· Musharraf’s Departure Is Good for Pakistan but Is It Too Late? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0818_pakistan_riedel.aspx
· Securing Georgia http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0818_georgia_pascual.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Pakistan after Musharraf http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/0820_transcript_pakistan_grare1.pdf
· Russia-Georgia Crisis http://carnegieendowment.org/topic/index.cfm?fa=viewTopic&topic=2000129

Center for American Progress
· It’s Easy Being Green: Spare the Air? Share the Road http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/share_the_road.html
· Think Again: Return of the Cold War Punditocracy http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/cold_war_punditocracy.html
· U.S. Aid to Pakistan by the Numbers http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pakistan_aid_numbers.html

Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR)
· Predicting Organizational Crisis Readiness: Perspectives and Practices Toward a Pathway to Preparedness http://www.nyu.edu/ccpr/pubs/OrgPreparedness_Report_NYU_Light_8.18.08.pdf

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 37: "Switzerland and the EU: The Prospects of Bilateralism" http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=90067
· No. 38: "Africa's Growing Strategic Relevance" http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=56968

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Commentary: Ensuring U.S. Access to the International Space Station http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080815_faith_georgia.pdf
· Commentary: Pakistan after Musharraf: Trouble and Opportunity http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080820_schaffer.musharaf.pdf
· Commentary: The Georgia War and the Century of "Real Power" http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080817_cordesman_georgia.pdf
· CSIS Resources on the Conflict in Georgia http://www.csis.org/georgiaconflict/
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 09 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n09.pdf
o Next Generation Views on Preventive Diplomacy: The Role of the ASEAN Regional Forum
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 10 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n10.pdf
o U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 11 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n11.pdf
o U.S.-Japan-China Relations in the Year 2020
· US Security Interests After Musharraf http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4810/type,1/

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
· Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst v. 10, no. 16, August 20, 2008 http://www.cacianalyst.org/files/080820Analyst.pdf
o Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia: Notes on a War
o Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Over South Ossetia
o Russia’s Invasion of Georgia: Bleak Prospects for the South Caucasus Guam and the Georgian War

Combating Terrorism Center
CTC Sentinel, v. 1, no. 9, August 2008 http://ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel_Vol1Iss9.pdf
· “The Sakinah Campaign and Internet Counter-Radicalization in Saudi Arabia” “Pursuing Al-Qa`ida into Diyala Province”
· “Jama`at a-Furqara’: A Domestic Terrorist Threat to the United States?” “Key Factors for the Recent Growth of the Afghan Insurgency”
· “A Preliminary Assessment of Counter-Radicalization in the Netherlands”
· “Curtailing Illicit and Terrorist Activity in Algeria’s Tamanrasset”
· “Countering Terrorism in an Unstable Democracy: Mauritania’s Political Crisis”
· “Saudi Arabia’s Sectarian Ambivalence”
· “After Action Report: Assessing Acceptable Corruption in Iraq”

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Foreign Policy and Political Nominating Conventions http://www.cfr.org/publication/16992/foreign_policy_and_political_nominating_conventions.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· A letter from the Director of National Intelligence & Attorney General to Sen. Reid & Sen. McConnell on S. 2035 - the "Free Flow of Information Act of 2008" http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/mediashield/ag-odni-letter082208.pdf
· related information is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/media-shield.htm

EU Institute for Security Studies
· E Pluribus Unum: Decision-Makers and decision-Making in Iran http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=18&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1016&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=638718a3e1
· Russia and Georgia: European Destinies http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=214&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1096&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=c22d325738
· Worst case: Escalation of the Unresolved Conflict in Georgia http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=214&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1097&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=47264d11f3

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· 21st Century Socialism in Latin America http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.radu.21centurysocialismlatinamerica.html
· A Clarifying Act of Violence: Russia, Georgia, and The West http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.sicherman.clarifyingactrussiageorgia.html
· In Havana, Waiting for Obama or for Putin? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.lee.havanaobamaputin.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Chemical Safety Board: Improvements in Management and Oversight Are Needed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08864r.pdf
· PBGC Assets: Implementation of New Investment Policy Will Need Stronger Board Oversight http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08667.pdf
· Supply Chain Security: CBP Works with International Entities to Promote Global Customs Security Standards and Initiatives, but Challenges Remain http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08538.pdf

Heritage Foundation
· Europe's Catalogue of Failures in Georgia http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm2033.cfm
· Fighting for Freedom in Rural Peru: "ALBA Houses" Threaten Democracy http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/bg2173.cfm
· How Do U.S. Foreign Aid Recipients Vote at the U.N.? Against the U.S. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg2171.cfm
· Hugo Chávez's Andean Offensive http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/wm2027.cfm
· People, Growth, And Reform: China's Uncertain Future http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm2032.cfm
· Russia-Georgia War Highlights Need for Directed-Energy Defenses http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/wm2030.cfm
· Russian Forces in the Georgian War: Preliminary Assessment and Recommendations http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm2031.cfm
· The Sound of Silence: The Decline of the Voice of America in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia http://www.heritage.org/Research/PublicDiplomacy/wm2029.cfm
· Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda08-05.cfm

Human Rights Watch
· China: Hosting Olympics a Catalyst for Human Rights Abuses http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/22/china19664.htm
· Georgia: Civilians Killed by Russian Cluster Bomb ‘Duds’ http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/20/georgi19660.htm
· Getting Away With Murder: 50 Years of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act http://hrw.org/backgrounder/2008/india0808/india0808webwcover.pdf
· India: Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/18/india19628.htm
· Turkey: Support Justice in Darfur http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/15/sudan19629.htm

Institute for Security Studies
· Lawful and Unlawful Community Involvement In The Fight Against Crime http://www.issafrica.org/index.php?link_id=5&slink_id=6517&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)
· Seven Years After 9/11: Al-Qaida's Strengths and Vulnerabilities http://icsr.info/files/ICSR%20Richard%20Barret%20Paper.pdf

International Crisis Group
· Burundi: Restarting Political Dialogue http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5632&l=1
· Russia vs Georgia: The Fallout http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5636&l=1
· War in Georgia website http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5623&l=1

International Relations and Security Network
· Cuba's Emerging Leverage http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19318
· Iraqi Christians: Round trip to Death Street http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19329
· Letters from Georgia: Nationalism and Fear http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19334
· Mauritania Coup a Blow http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19312
· Russian Military, Fighting to Reform http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19313

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
· Recent Terror blasts in India: How Should We Respond? http://www.ipcs.org/newIpcsSeminars2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2665
· Structural Roots of Authoritarianism in Pakistan http://www.ipcs.org/newIpcsSeminars2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2669

Jamestown Foundation
· Special Coverage from Tbilisi http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=345

Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies
· The Analyst's Style Manual http://www.mciis.org/Books/MCIIS%20Style%20Manual%20June%202008.pdf

National Academies Press
· Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution: Challenges for China and the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12001&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=Eblast%3a+China+8.13.08&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=
· U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike: Issues for 2008 and Beyond http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12061&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=New%20from%20NAP%208.19.08&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
· Registering the Human Terrain: a Valuation of Cadastre http://ndic.edu/press/pdf/10279.pdf

National Institute of Standards and Technology
· WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc082108.html

National Research Council (NCR)
· Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12177#toc

National Security Archive
· 1998 Missile Strikes on Bin Laden May Have Backfired http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB253/index.htm
· PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings: "White Paper" Drafted before NIE even Requested http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/index.htm

RAND
· Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR528.pdf
· The State of U.S. Railroads: A Review of Capacity and Performance Data http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR603.pdf
· The Weighted Airman Promotion System: Standardizing Test Scores http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG678.pdf

Securing America's Future Energy
· $120 Oil and Beyond: An Update http://www.secureenergy.org/files/files/837_SAF_996_New%20Westcott%20Report_v08_ELEC.pdf

Stanley Foundation
· Actualizing the Responsibility to Protect: 43rd Conference on the United Nations of the Next Decade http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/report/UNND808.pdf
· Great Expectations http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/GreatExpectationsPDB808.pdf
· The United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pab/LuckPAB808.pdf
· US Nuclear Weapons, Force Posture, and Infrastructure http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/Forced_Posture_PDB_808.pdf
· Value Cooperation, Not Antagonism: The Case for Functional-Based Cooperation http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/FuncBasedCoopPDB_808.pdf

Henry L Stimson Center
· The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 http://www.stimson.org/eastasia/pdf/Morita-North_Korean_HR_Act_of_2004_Report-Aug%2008.pdf
· The Political Economy of Hydropower Dam Construction in Vietnam http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?ID=663
· Young American China Watchers' Views on China http://www.stimson.org/eastasia/pdf/Chinawatchers.pdf

US Institute of Peace
· Moving Beyond Relief: The Challenges of Settling Kenya's Internally Displaced http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/0815_kenya.html

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· 2007-2008 Lecture Series: Senior U.S. Counterterrorism Officials http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC11.php?CID=485
· The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2924
· Kirkuk Derails Iraq's Election Law http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2922
· Pakistan after Musharraf: Growing U.S. Challenges http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2923

Friday's Miscellany 08-15-2008

Brookings Institution
· China: A Global Power http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2008/0813_china_li.aspx
· China’s Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2008/0813_china_downs.aspx
· The Conflict in Georgia http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2008/0814_georgia.aspx
· Iraq in 2009: How to Give Peace a Chance http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Projects/Opportunity08/PB_Iraq_Pascual.pdf
· Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/08_iraq_ferris/08_iraq_ferris.pdf
· Preventing the Tragedy of the CO2 Commons:
· Exploring China’s Growth and the International Climate Framework http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/07_china_climate_change_woo/07_china_climate_change_woo.pdf
· South Ossetia Conflict Holds Lessons for Kyiv http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0815_ukraine_pifer.aspx
· U.S. Policy in Asia: Meeting Opportunities and Challenges http://www.brookings.edu/events/2008/0728_asia.aspx?emc=lm&m=217672&l=2&v=738898
· Vietnam's Model for North Korea http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0717_north_korea_ohanlon.aspx?emc=lm&m=217672&l=6&v=738898
· The War in Georgia: Assessing the Aftermath http://www.brookings.edu/events/2008/0814_georgia.aspx
· War in Georgia—End of an Era, Beginning a New Cold War? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0812_georgia_linn.aspx?emc=lm&m=217672&l=4&v=738898

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
· Georgia: Risk and Opportunity. http://www.cdfai.org/PDF/Georgia%20Risk%20and%20Opportunity.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Frequently Asked Questions about India and Nuclear Trade http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=20366
· Mauritania’s Coup: Domestic Complexities and International Dilemmas http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/boucek_mauritania.pdf
· Questions Linger about India's Safeguards http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=20390&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
· Text of U.S. NSG Proposal on India http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=20388

Center for American Progress
· A Progressive Approach to U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pdf/china_report.pdf

Center for Defense Information
· Information Warfare and Nuclear Weapons Security http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/InformationWarfare.pdf

Center for Security Policy
· Back in the USSR http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· ABANDON SHIPS: The Costly Illusion of Unaffordable Transformation http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080806_naval_equipment_acquisition.pdf
· Georgia: Epicenter of Strategic Confrontation http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080812_bugajski_georgia.pdf
· Southeast Asia Bulletin August 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080813_southeastasia_bulletin.pdf
· South Asia Monitor: Running on Empty: South Asia's Food and Fuel Crisis - August 01, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/sam121.pdf
· Freeman Report July/August 2008 - vol.6 no.7-8 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/fr08n07-08.pdf

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
· Kazakhstan and the New International Politics of Eurasia http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0807Weitz.pdf

Century Foundation
· Nation-Building and Counterinsurgency after Iraq http://www.tcf.org/publications/internationalaffairs/dobbinscopy.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Contractors' Support of U.S. Operations in Iraq http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9688&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations
· Challenges for Nuclear Power Expansion http://www.cfr.org/publication/16886/nuclear_bottlenecks.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· U.S. Trade Strategy: Free Versus Fair http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/wm_2021.pdf

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Visa Security Program http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_08-79_Jul08.pdf

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· August 11, 2008: Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 500 Director of National Intelligence, Chief Information Office http://www.dni.gov/electronic_reading_room/ICD%20500.pdf
· NIO Gistaro Describes Current al-Qaeda Threats in Open Briefing http://www.dni.gov/speeches/20080812_speech.pdf

Alan Shawn Feinstein International Center
· Humanitarian Agenda 2015--Nepal Country Case Study http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/HA2015NepalCaseStudy.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· The Beijing Olympics Narrative http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.price.beijingolympics.html
· Russia Resurgent: An Initial Look at Russian Military Performance In Georgia http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.chang.russiaresurgentgeorgia.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Acquisitions: Department of Defense Needs Framework for Balancing Investments in Tactical Radios http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08877.pdf
· Defense Critical Infrastructure: Adherence to Guidance Would Improve DOD's Approach to Identifying and Assuring the Availability of Critical Transportation Assets. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08851.pdf
· Drug Control: Cooperation with Many Major Drug Transit Countries Has Improved, but Better Performance Reporting and Sustainability Plans Are Needed. GAO-08-784. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08784.pdf
· Military Base Realignments and Closures: Army Is Developing Plans to Transfer Functions from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, but Challenges Remain http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081010r.pdf
· Military Personnel: Improvements Needed to Increase Effectiveness of DOD's Programs to Promote Positive Working Relationships between Reservists and Their Employers. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08981r.pdf
· Review of Transportation Security Administration's Air Cargo Screening Exemptions Report http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081055r.pdf
· Tax Administration: Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08957.pdf
· Transportation Security: TSA Has Developed a Risk-Based Covert Testing Program, but Could Better Mitigate Aviation Security Vulnerabilities Identified Through Covert Tests. GAO-08-958. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08958.pdf

Heritage Foundation
· Congressional Commission Should Recommend "Damage Limitation" Strategy http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2172.pdf
· Weighing Chinese Manufacturing Strength http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/upload/wm_2023.pdf
· When Electrons Attack: Cyber-Strikes on Georgia a Wake-Up Call for Congress http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/wm_2022.pdf
· Saving Georgia http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/wm_2021.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· "They Beat Me like a Dog": Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe. http://hrw.org/reports/2008/zimbabwe0808/zimbabwe0808web.pdf
· Russia/Georgia: Investigate Civilian Deaths http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/13/russia19620.htm

Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
· The 2007 Humanitarian Accountability Report http://www.hapinternational.org/pool/files/the-2007-humanitarian-accountability-report.pdf

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Can Military Strikes Destroy Iran's Gas Centrifuge Program? Probably Not http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/Centrifuge_Manufacturing_7August2008.pdf

Institute for Security Studies
· Is a Military Coup an Answer to the Political Crisis in Mauritania? http://www.issafrica.org/index.php?link_id=5&slink_id=6489&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3

International Crisis Group
· Georgia Conflict Alert: Russia Must Withdraw Its Troops from Georgia http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5625&l=1
· Kyrgyzstan: A Deceptive Calm http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3564&tid=5627&l=1

International Relations and Security Network
· Abkhaz Open 'Second Front' http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=19310
· Georgia: Prospects of a New Cold War http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19299
· Hot Issues in the Arctic http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19304
· Mauritania Coup a Blow http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19312
· Oil-addicted World Faces Crude Awakening http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=19309
· The Tactical Nuclear Weapons Game http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19300

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor - Volume VI, Issue 16 http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/TM_006_016.pdf
o PKK Tactics May Reveal Damage Caused by Turkish Military Campaign By Emrullah Uslu
o Terrorism and Piracy: The Dual Threat to Maritime Shipping By John Daly
o Pakistan's Frontier Corps and the War against Terrorism – Part Two By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf
o Sudan's Oil Industry Faces Major Security Challenges By Andrew McGregor
· Terrorism Focus - Volume V, Issue 30 http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/tf_005_030.pdf
o Jihadis React to Indictment of Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir
o Technological Innovation and the Turkish Armed Forces' War on the PKK
o Colombia’s FARC Escalate Operations to Demonstrate Their Will to Continue the Armed Struggle
o India’s Strategic Challenge in Pakistan’s Afghan Hinterland

Lexington Institute
· Helicopter Troubles Traceable to Government Mistakes http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1305.shtml

Lowy Institute for International Policy
· Into Africa: How the Resource Boom is Making Sub-Saharan Africa More Important to Australia http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=870

RAND
· Department of Defense Training for Operations with Interagency, Multinational, and Coalition Partners. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG707.pdf
· Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen?: A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG696.pdf

Reform Institute
· The Smart Alternative: Securing and Strengthening Our Nation’s Vulnerable Electric Grid http://www.reforminstitute.org/uploads/publications/Smart_Grid_Final.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
· The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB869.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Kirkuk Derails Iraq's Election Law. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2922

REPORT -- Contractors' Support of U.S. Operations in Iraq

A newly released Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report is likely to be of particular interest and has been in the news today.

The report - Contractors' Support of U.S. Operations in Iraq is available directly at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9688&type=1

The CBO Director's blog with information about the report can be found at http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=156 Some of the findings as listed on the blog site include:

CBO found:

• From 2003 through 2007, and converting the funding into 2008 dollars, U.S. agencies awarded $85 billion in contracts for work to be principally performed in the Iraq theater, accounting for almost 20 percent of funding for operations in Iraq. Including funding for 2008 itself, the U.S. has likely awarded $100 billion or more for contractors in the Iraq theater.

• More than 70 percent of those obligations were for contracts performed in Iraq itself. The Department of Defense awarded contracts totaling $76 billion, and the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State obligated roughly $5 billion and $4 billion, respectively, over the same period.

• Contractors provide a wide range of products and services in theater. Most contract obligations were for logistics support, construction, petroleum products, or food.

• Although personnel counts are rough approximations, CBO estimates that at least 190,000 contractor personnel, including subcontractors, work on U.S.-funded contracts in the Iraq theater. About 20 percent are U.S. citizens.

• The United States has used contractors during previous military operations, although not to the current extent. According to rough historical data, the ratio of about one contractor employee for every member of the U.S. armed forces in the Iraq theater is at least 2.5 times higher than the ratio during any other major U.S. conflict, although it is roughly comparable with the ratio during operations in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Private security contractors have been a particular focus of attention. Our analysis shows:

• Total spending by the U.S. government and other contractors for security provided by contractors in Iraq from 2003 through 2007 was between $6 billion and $10 billion.

• About 10,000 employees of private security contractors work directly for the U.S. government. Another 15,000 to 20,000 work for the Iraqi government, other contractors, and other customers, bringing the total to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 employees of private security contractors operating in Iraq.

• The costs of a private security contract are similar to those of a U.S. military unit performing similar functions. During peacetime, however, the private security contract would not have to be renewed, whereas the military unit would remain in the force structure.