Friday's Miscellany 10-17-2008

American Academy of Diplomacy
· A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future: Fixing the Crisis in Diplomatic Readiness

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Counter-Terrorism and German-American Relations: A German Perspective

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
· States of Preparedness. Health Agency Progress, (2nd. Ed.)

BASIC
· Nuclear Iran: India Has Made Its Choice

Brookings Institution
· Displacement and Human Rights: A Continuing Challenge
· Energy and the Environment: National Security Implications
· The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: 10 Year Anniversary
· Moving Beyond Rhetoric: Consultation and Participation with Populations Displaced by Conflict or Natural Disasters
· Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers
· U.S.- ROK: The Forgotten Alliance

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?
· International Labor Migration in a Globalizing Economy
· When Money Talks: Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Public Policy Discourse

Center for a New American Security
· Fighting Over the Next Fight
· The Ripple Effect: China's Responses to the Iraq War
· The Ripple Effect: India's Responses to the Iraq War
· The Ripple Effect: Japan's Responses to the Iraq War

Center for American Progress
· A “Downward Spiral” in Afghanistan

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· Military Manpower for the Long Haul
· The US Defense Industrial Base: Past, Present and Future

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· 2008 U.S.-China Strategic Nuclear Dynamics Conference: Introduction & Key Findings
· Confronting Two Key Challenges in Afghanistan
· Defense Industrial Initiatives Current Issues: Cost-Plus Contracts
· HOW SOON IS SAFE? Iraqi Force Development and Conditions-Based US Withdrawals
· Iranian Weapons Of Mass Destruction
· The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Nonproliferation
· Winning the War in Afghanistan: The Realities of 2009

Chatham House
· Synchronized Dive into Recession: Focus on Damage Limitation

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· New Ideas About Human Behavior in Economics and Medicine

Council on Foreign Relations
· Crisis Guide: Climate Change

Defense Science Board (DSB)
· Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills

Department of Defense
· United States Africa Command

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-08-95 - Review of DHS Security Controls for Portable Storage Devices

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Egypt Reenters the Fray
· Redefining U.S. Interests in the Middle East

Freedom House
· Nations in Transit 2008 (Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Biosafety Laboratories: Perimeter Security Assessment of the Nation's Five BSL-4 Laboratories. GAO-08-1092
· Defense Management: DOD Can Establish More Guidance for Biometrics Collection and Explore Broader Data Sharing. GAO-09-49
· Multiple Agencies Provide Assistance to Service-disabled Veterans or Entrepreneurs, but Specific Needs Are Difficult to Identify and Coordination Is Weak. GAO-09-11R
· Risk-Based Capital: New Basel II Rules Reduced Certain Competitive Concerns, but Bank Regulators Should Address Remaining Uncertainties. GAO-08-953

Heritage Foundation
· Falling Oil Prices: Useful Lessons from the Slump at the Pump http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/upload/wm_2106.pdf
· Finding Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas http://www.heritage.org/research/tradeandeconomicfreedom/upload/wm_2103.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia
· Returns at Any Cost: Spain’s Push to Repatriate Unaccompanied Children in the Absence of Safeguards

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
· Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Anticipating the Consequences for U.S. Policy

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
· Irregular Warfare: New Challenges for Civil-Military Relations [Strategic Forum no. 234]

Institute for Security Studies
· African Security Review Vol 17 No 3, 2008 -- Climate Change and Human Security in Africa
o The climate security divide: Bridging human and national Security in Africa, Denise Garcia
o From the West to the rest: Climate change as a challenge to human security in Africa, Dan Kuwali
o Climate change: A new threat to stability in West Africa? Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso, Oli Brown and Alec Crawford
o Environmental change and human security in Lesotho: The role of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in environmental degradation, Oscar Gakuo Mwangi
o Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008, Henri Boshoff
o Senegal’s democracy: Has Wade lost his edge? David Zounmenou
o Developing national security strategies in the African context, Colonel (Rtd) James D Noteboom
o Oil pipeline sabotage in Nigeria: Dimensions, actors and implications for national security 99 Freedom C Onuoha
o Understanding Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Laurence Caromba and Hussein Solomon
o The impacts of environmental degradation on refugee–host relationships, Leah Berry

International Peace Institute
· Beyond Terrorism: Deradicalization and Disengagement from Violent Extremism
· Governing the Global Economy: Strengthening Multilateral Institutions
· Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and the Responsibility to Protect: Challenges for the UN and the International Community in the 21st Century

International Security Advisory Board, U.S. Dept of State
· China’s Strategic Modernizaton: Report from the ISAB Task Force Board

International Crisis Group
· Reforming the Judiciary in Pakistan
· The Role of International Justice in Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict
· Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province: Land, Development, Conflict

International Relations and Security Network
· Backyard Games
· Israel's Race Politics
· Kashmir's New Generation
· A Perfect Storm: Calming the Global Food Crisis
· Trimming a Hawk's Wings

Lexington Institute
· Five Reasons Weapons Spending Won't Fall
· The U.S. Navy's Most Successful Shipbuilding Program

National Academies Press
· Review of Directed Energy Technology for Countering Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (RAM): Abbreviated Version

National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
· NCHRP Report 525, Vol. 13: A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency

Nine/Eleven Finding Answers [NEFA] Foundation
· Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe
· Islamic Jihad Union
· Saudi Terror Operative in Yemen: Target Oil to Cause "Total Collapse"

Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE)
· Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions on the 15 October 2008 Presidential Election in Azerbaijan

RAND
· Identity Crisis: An Examination of the Costs and Benefits of a Unique Patient Identifier for the U.S. Health Care System
· In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad -- Compilation and Commentary
· Migrant Women in the European Labour Force: Current Situation and Future Prospects
· RAND Voices of Jihad Database
· Recommended Infrastructure Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing
· The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security: Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly

Stanley Foundation
· The Roots of the United States’ Deteriorating Civilian Capacity and Potential Remedies: What an Engagement Strategy Entails: Is the United States Government Equipped?
· Strategic Deterrence and US Nuclear Weapons Policy: US Nuclear Policy Review Project
· United States-China-Japan Working Group on Trilateral Confidence- and Security-Building Measures (CSBMs)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· A Forum Without a Future? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2938

DSB report - Nuclear Deterrence Skills

The Defense Science Board has just posted its latest report on Nuclear Deterrence Skills. This report – “Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills” cane be found directly at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2008-09-NDS.pdfhttp://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm or from their reports page http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

The DSB Task Force was asked to assess military, federal and contactor nuclear deterrence skills utilizing the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review and the Strategic Capabilities Assessment in doing so. The report provides findings and recommendations addressing broader programmatic issues resulting from a “lack of prioritization and de-emphasis of nuclear related systems.” The report recommends methods and strategies that senior officials should utilize to maintain “a right-sized, properly trained, and experienced work force to ensure the viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent through 2020.”

Friday's Miscellany 10-10-2008

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

· High Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Conflict in South Ossetia

American Enterprise Institute

· "Third Neighbor" Strategy for Asia

· United States Foreign Policy and Strategic Dimensions

Amnesty International

· No Going Home—Tens of Thousands Unable to Return to Homes in Georgia

Association of the U.S. Army

· Logistics and the Combatant Commander: Meeting the Challenge

· Planning for Employment of the Reserve Components: Army Practice, Past and Present

· The War on Terror and the War for Officer Talent: Linked Challenges for the U.S. Army

Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS)

· Grim Prospects in Afghanistan

Brookings Institution

· Arts and Culture in the U.S.-Muslim World Relationship

· Making the Rescue Package Work: Asset and Equity Purchases

· Reform the IMF or Create a New Global Agency, But Do Something

· Top 10 Global Economic Challenges Facing America's 44th President

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

· Are New Nuclear Bargains Attainable?

· Turkey’s Middle East Policies: Between Neo-Ottomanism and Kemalism

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

· Afghanistan Update: September 2008

· The Defense Monitor, Volume XXXVII, No. 5 - September/October 2008

Center for European Reform

· Pipelines, Politics and Power: The Future of EU-Russia Energy Relations

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

· No. 41: "US Foreign Policy under Bush: Balance Sheet and Outlook"

Center for Security Policy

· The Other Debate: Frank Gaffney vs. Suhail Khan

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

· A Road Map from Conflict to Peace: A Discussion on the Army’s New Doctrine for Stability Operations and the Implications for Foreign Policy

· Security and Governance in Afghanistan: Needed Actions and Foreign Limitations

· The US, Israel, the Arab States and a Nuclear Iran

· Winning the War in Afghanistan

Congress. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

· Report on Challenges and Recommendations for United States Overhead Architecture

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

· The Effects of Recent Turmoil in Financial Markets on Retirement Security

· Monthly Budget Review

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704 - Personnel Security

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.1 - Investigative Standards

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.2 - Adjudicative Guidelines

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.3 -Denials or Revocation of Access to SCI

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.4 - Reciprocity

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.5 - IC Database

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· The Georgia Crisis and Continuing Democratic Erosion in Europe/Eurasia

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Department of Defense: A Departmentwide Framework to Identify and Report Gaps in the Defense Supplier Base Is Needed GAO-09-5

· Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT's Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends GAO-09-56

· Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on the Department of Homeland Security's Next Generation Information Sharing System GAO-09-40

· Private Equity: Recent Growth in Leveraged Buyouts Exposed Risks That Warrant Continued Attention GAO-08-885

· Sovereign Wealth Funds: Publicly Available Data on Sizes and Investments for Some Funds Are Limited GAO-08-946

· Veterans' Disability Benefits: Better Accountability and Access Would Improve the Benefits Delivery at Discharge Program GAO-08-901

Heritage Foundation

· Changing Course on Navy Shipbuilding: Questions Congress Should Ask Before Funding

· Securing Global Supply Chains: 10 Plus 2 Container Security Ruling Needed

· Shaping the NATO—EU Relationship: What the U.S. Must Do

· Taiwan Arms Sales: Less Than Meets the Eye

Hudson Institute

· America's Challenges in the Middle East

Human Rights Watch

· Torture and Impunity in Jordan’s Prisons: Reforms Fail to Tackle Widespread Abuse

Human Security Report Project

· miniAtlas of Human Security

Information Sharing Environment (ISE)

· Inclusion of Information Sharing Performance Evaluation Element in Employee Performance Appraisals

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

· Reforming Military Support for Foreign Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance

· The U.S. Foreign Disaster Response Process: How It Works and How It Could Work Better

International Relations and Security Network

· The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs

· Shia-Sunni Rift Overstated

International Security

v. 32,no. 4, Spring 2008

· What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy by Max Abrahms

Joint Chiefs of Staff

· Joint Publication 3-04: Joint Shipboard Helicopter Operations, 30 September 2008

Lexington Institute

· Future Security: Keeping TSAT on Track Is Essential

National Academies Press

· Antivirals for Pandemic Influenza: Guidance on Developing a Distribution and Dispensing Program [free download available]

· English-Chinese, Chinese-English Nuclear Security Glossary [free download available]

· Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Assessment

National Security Archive

· Trujillo Declassified: Documenting Colombia's 'Tragedy Without End'

Naval War College, Newport Papers

· Major Naval Operations

Pew Global Attitudes Project

· Trickle-Down Global Economics: World Already Saw U.S. Influence as Negative

RAND

· Final Report of the Panel on the Department of Defense Human Capital Strategy

· Recommended Infrastructure Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing

· Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs

Stanley Foundation

· Strategic Deterrence and US Nuclear Weapons Policy

UK Parliament

· The Treaty of Lisbon: An Uncertain Future

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

· Abrahamic Alternatives to War: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Just Peacemaking

· Haiti: Confronting the Gangs of Port-au-Prince

· Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir

· Media, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Mapping the Edges

· Reconciliation Strategies in Iraq

· USIP Contributes to New Stability Ops Doctrine

· Would You Fight Again?: Understanding Liberian Ex-Combatant Reintegration

US Treasury Department

· Terrorist Assets Report

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

· Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Threatened

· The Future of U.S. Military Aid to Lebanon