CNO Guidance 2009 and Navy Ethos

The CNO released his Guidance Document for 2009 [Executing our Maritime Strategy] and a new Navy Ethos.

According to ADM Roughead, the purpose of the Guidance “reaffirms the vision, mission, guiding principles and focus areas articulated in the 2008 Guidance and provides additional context for the 18 intentions” and the "Navy Ethos is who we are. It describes our character. It describes our values. It describes what we believe. And as a Navy it captures our character and says it very clearly.”

Listen to the podcast related to the Guidance

Friday's Miscellany 11-07-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· The United States Should Not Open an Interests Section in Tehran

Amnesty International
· Millions at Risk in Somalia as Attacks on Aid Workers Escalate

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Global Jigsaw: ASPI's Strategic Assessment 2008

Border Policy Research Institute
· International Mobility & Trade Corridor Project (IMTC) 2008 Passenger Intercept Survey, Final Report

Brookings Institution
· Lessons of the Troop Surge in Iraq

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Can Cairo Reassemble Palestine?
· In the Shadow of the Brothers: The Women of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

CATO Institute
· The Pentagon on Defense

Center for Defense Information
· Space Security Update #7: Oct. 10, 2008

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
· Assessments of the Impact of 1206-Funded Projects in Selected Countries: Lebanon, Pakistan, Yemen, Sao Tome and Principe
· CNA's Integrated Ship Database
· U.S. -China Economic Relations: Issues and Prospects Conference Report

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Trafficking Networks for Chemical Weapons Precursors

Center for Security Policy
· Treasury Submits to Shariah

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Work in Progress
· The New Presidency and the Future of American Military Power

Centre for Social Cohesion
· Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech Within Europe's Muslim Communities

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· An Analysis of NASA's Plans for Continuing Human Spaceflight After Retiring the Space Shuttle

Defense Science Board (DSB)
· Defense Imperatives for the New Administration

Department of Homeland Security
· 2007 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
· Combat Deployment and the Returning Police Officer

Department of Justice Office of Inspector General
· The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Threat and Suspicious Incident Tracking System, Audit Report 09-02

Director of National Intelligence
· DNI Open Source Conference 2008 [video gallery]
· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 623 - Appointment of Highly Qualified Experts

Ford Institute for Human Security
· What Males a Camp Safe? The Protection of Children from Abduction in Internally Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· History and Political Games
· Memory, Apologies, and International Reconciliation

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· 13 "Urgent Issues" for New Administration - transition website
· Energy Markets: Refinery Outages Can Impact Petroleum Product Prices, but No Federal Requirements to Report Outages Exist. GAO-09-87
· Federal Research: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Management and Oversight of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers. GAO-09-15
· Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt's Fiscal Years 2008 and 2007 Schedules of Federal Debt. GAO-09-44
· The Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: September 2008 Update. GAO-09-94R
· National Applications Office Certification Review GAO-09-105R
· Plan Colombia: Drug Reduction Goals Were Not Fully Met, but Security Has Improved; U.S. Agencies Need More Detailed Plans for Reducing Assistance GAO-09-71

Heritage Foundation
· Low Expectations for Secretary of State Rice's Middle East Trip
· The New Cold War: Reviving the U.S. Presence in the Arctic

Homeland Security & Defense Business Council
· Why Robust Use of the SAFETY Act is Critical to Homeland Security & How to Get There

Human Rights Watch
· Disappearances and Arbitrary Arrests in the Armed Conflict with Huthi Rebels in Yemen
· Hostages of Tension: Intimidation and Harassment of Ethnic Albanians in Serbia after Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence

International Crisis Group
· CrisisWatch Nº63

International Relations and Security Network
· Ghosts of Liberation
· Venezuela's Space Escort

Institute for Security Studies
· SA Crime Quarterly No 25

Lexington Institute
· Chemical & Biological Threats: Surveillance as the First Line of Defense

New America Foundation
· Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting

Physicians for Social Responsibility
· Shock and Awe Hits Home: U.S. Health Costs of the War in Iraq

RAND
· Review and Evaluation of the VA Enrollee Health Care Projection Model

Strategic Studies Institute
· Known Unknowns: Unconventional "Strategic Shocks" in Defense Strategy Development

Trust for America’s Health
· Germs Go Global: Why Emerging Infectious Diseases Are a Threat to America

US Institute of Peace
· What Iraq Needs from the Obama Administration: Recommendations from Iraqis Resident in the U.S.

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Building the Global Counterterrorism Network
· The Rise of Apocalyptic Islam: Causes and Implications
· Win, Lose, or Draw: Iraq Decisions Await President-Elect
· Why the Next U.S. President Will Be a Wartime Leader

GAO - 13 "Urgent Issues" for New Administration

The General Accountability Office (GAO) has launched a new transition
website intended to help make the transition an informed and smooth one.
The website can be found at http://www.gao.gov/transition_2009/

The 13 urgent issues they identified are as follows and are in
alphabetic order not priority order:

* Caring for Service Members
* Defense Readiness
* Defense Spending
* Food Safety
* Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
* Oversight of Financial Institutions and Markets
* Preparing for Large-Scale Health Emergencies
* Protecting the Homeland
* Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting
* Retirement of the Space Shuttle
* Surface Transportation
* The 2010 Census
* Transition to Digital TV

The website also includes sections on:
* Agency-by-Agency Issues
* Major Cost-Saving Opportunities
* Management Challenges Across the Government
* Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
* Examples of Upcoming GAO reports on Major National Issues

REPORT - Defense Imperatives for the New Administration

The Defense Science Board has posted its new report - "DefenseImperatives for the New Administration."
Previous DSB reports can be found at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/pages/reports.htm The subjects tackled in this report include:
**Protect and defining the homeland
**Maintaining capability to project for around the world to deter or
defeat
**Bringing stability to states and regions
**Thwarting terrorism and bringing terrorists to justice, anytime and
anywhere
**Supporting state and local authorities in providing domestic
catastrophe relief A variety of interesting graphs and charts are included.

Friday's Miscellany 10-31-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· European Missile Defense: Looking at the Heart and Soul of the U.S.-European Alliance
· Foreign Aid: What Works and What Doesn't

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· A New Map for American-German Relations: Memorandum to the New U.S. President

Amnesty International
· The Human Cost of Armed Conflict in the Philippines
· Isolated and Abused: Women Migrant Domestic Workers in Jordan
· More Face Abuse and Death as Colombia's Government Denies Human Rights Situation

Brookings Institution
· Global Economic Crisis: Short and Long-term Prospects for Egypt
· Policy Options in Afghanistan
· Ukraine, Georgia and MAP – Time for Plan B

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
· "The Audacity of Common Sense"

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Nuclear Renaissance: Is It Coming? Should It?
· Russian–American Security Relations After Georgia
· Stabilizing Afghanistan: Threats and Challenges

Center for Security Policy
· All Roads Lead to Jerusalem
· Shariah Finance: Sell-off or Sell-out?

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 42: Comprehensive Approaches in International Crisis Management

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Crafting U.S. Economic Strategy toward Asia: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Experience
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part III: Biological Weapons Programs
· Islamic Radical Ideologies and South Asian Security: The Case of Bangladesh
· OPEC Production and the Falling Price of Oil
· Russia and European Energy Security: Divide and Dominate
· The U.S.-Japan Alliance: A New Framework for Enhanced Global Security

Centre for Social Cohesion
· Islam on Campus: A Survey of UK Student Opinions

Century Foundation
· Resolving America’s Islamist Dilemma: Lessons from South and Southeast Asia

Congress. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
· Energy: A Matter of National, Economic, and Environmental Security

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Preparing for Our Common Future: Policy Choices and the Economics of Climate Change

Council on Foreign Relations
· Counterterrorism in India

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-001 Information Assurance Controls for the Defense Civilian Pay System
· D-2009-006 Small Arms Ammunition Fund Management in Support of the Global War on Terror
· D-2009-007 Procurement and Use of Nontactical Vehicles at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan

Department of Homeland Security
· Keynote Address at National Homeland Defense Foundation by Charles E. Allen, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis/Chief Intelligence Officer

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 707 - Center for Security Evaluation
· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 707.1 - Construction Security Review Board

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· Hate Crime Statistics, 2007

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Check 21 Act: Most Consumers Have Accepted and Banks Are Progressing Toward Full Adoption of Check Truncation GAO-09-8
· Check 21 Act: Questions for Consumers about Check 21 Act (GAO-09-9SP, October 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-09-8
· Combating Nuclear Smuggling: DHS's Phase 3 Test Report on Advanced Portal Monitors Does Not Fully Disclose the Limitations of the Test Results GAO-08-979
· Defense Critical Infrastructure: Developing Training Standards and an Awareness of Existing Expertise Would Help DOD Assure the Availability of Critical Infrastructure GAO-09-42
· Defense Health Care: Additional Efforts Needed to Ensure Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements GAO-09-31
· Export Controls: Challenges with Commerce's Validated End-User Program May Limit Its Ability to Ensure That Semiconductor Equipment Exported to China Is Used as Intended GAO-08-1095
· USA Patriot Act: Better Interagency Coordination and Implementing Guidance for Section 311 Could Improve U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Efforts GAO-08-1058

Henry L. Stimson Center
· Afghanistan and Pakistan: More Realism Needed to Prevent US Failure

Heritage Foundation
· Approaching the "Invisible Red Line": Why Congress Must Act Now to Restore Military Readiness
· Into Africa: Bush Initiatives That Deserve Continuing Support
· The New Cold War: Reviving the U.S. Presence in the Arctic
· North Korea Nuclear Verification: Has the U.S. Blinked?
· OPEC Redux: Responding to the Russian–Iranian Gas Cartel

Institute for National Security Studies
· Global Insurgency and Salafi Jihad Movement

Institute for Security Studies
· Monograph No 151: Africa in the New World. How Global and Domestic Developments will Impact by 2025

International Crisis Group
· Azerbaijan: Defence Sector Management and Reform
· Correcting Course: Victims and the Justice and Peace Law in Colombia
· Oil for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds

International Relations and Security Network
· Comprehensive Approaches to International Crisis Management
· The Future of US Foreign Policy
· Russia's Western Security Outpost

Lexington Institute
· Memo to Demo's: Missile Defense Is Our Top Military Need

National Academies Press
· Combined Exposures to Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide in Army Operations: Final Report

National Interest Online
· Xenophobia on the Continent

National Priorities Project
· The Military Cost of Securing Energy

RAND
· Deterrence -- From Cold War to Long War: Lessons from Six Decades of RAND Research
· Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
· Thinking About America's Defense: An Analytical Memoir

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
· Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Quarterly Report to the United States Congress (October 30, 2008)

Strategic Studies Institute
· Dueling Natures
· Leadership and National Security Reform: The Next President's Agenda
· PLA Missions Beyond Taiwan
· Slowing Military Change

United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
· Audiovisual Library of International Law

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
· CBP Trade Strategy Fiscal Years 2009-2013

US Institute of Peace
· Iraq’s Cultural Heritage: Preserving the Past for the Sake of the Future

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Kirkuk: The Land the Surge Forgot
· Iraqi Politicians Ponder Status of Forces Agreement
· New FBI Powers: A Necessary Step for Counterterrorism
· OPEC Deliberates: A Saudi Opportunity

Friday's Miscellany 10-24-2008

American Academy of Diplomacy and the Henry L. Stimson Center
· A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future: Fixing the Crisis in Diplomatic Readiness

American Enterprise Institute
· European Missile Defense: Looking at the Heart and Soul of the U.S.-European Alliance
· Getting Religion Wrong: Three Decades of Misreporting Iran and Iraq

Amnesty International
· European Missile Defense: Looking at the Heart and Soul of the U.S.-European Alliance
· Getting Religion Wrong: Three Decades of Misreporting Iran and Iraq

Better World Campaign, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
· New Directions for Democracy Promotion

Brookings Institution
· The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America
· Slipping Oil Prices: Is the Oil Rich Middle East Prepared?
· Why Do Terrorists Love To Strike Around Elections?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Why the United States Should Lead
· Can Trade Policy Support the Next Global Climate Agreement?
· Courts Open New Chapter in Counter-Terrorism
· Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for United States and China
· Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?

Center for American Progress
· Dealing with Iraq: Four Reasons Why Americans Need to Debate the Proposed U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement

Center for Defense Information
· Pentagon Study Lambasts Missile Defense Agency [the report is Study on the Mission, Roles, and Structure of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) by the Institute of Defense Analysis]

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Beyond UNSCR 1540: the Forging of a WMD Terrorism Treaty

Center for Security Policy
· NATO: Ending the Free Ride
· Senator Kyl on Nuclear Deterrence

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
· FY2009 Defense Appropriations Act

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Beyond November: Terrorists, Rogue States, and Democracy
· The Bush Administration's Legacy in the Middle East
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part II: Chemical Weapons Programs
· Losing the Afghan-Pakistan War? The Rising Threat

Century Foundation
· Dangerous and Getting More Dangerous: The Delicate Situation between the United States and Iran
· Strategy for U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and “Other Means”
· CTC Sentinel, v. 1, no. 11, October 2008
o “Field Notes on Iraq’s Tribal Revolt Against Al-Qaida” by David J. Kilcullen
o “Islamic State of Iraq Commemorates its Two-Year Anniversary” by Pascale Combelles Siegel
o “British Muslims Providing Foot Soldiers for the Global Jihad” by James Brandon
o “Anatomy of Spain’s 28 Disrupted Jihadist Networks” by Javier Jordan
o “The Impact of Global Youth Bulges on Islamist Radicalization and Violence” by Colleen McCue and Kathryn Haahr
o “Jama`at al-Fuqara’: An Overblown Threat?” by Farhana Ali and William Rosenau
o “The Threat of Terrorism to the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa” by Anneli Botha
o “Iraq as the Focus for Apocalyptic Scenarios” by David Cook

Council on Foreign Relations
· Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism
· India-Afghanistan Relations
· Trade Liberalization: Cordell Hull and the Case for Optimism

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-08-92 - Transportation Security Administration's Control over SIDA Badges, Uniforms, and Identification Cards (Redacted)
· OIG-08-97 - Hurricane Katrina: A Review of Wind Versus Flood Issues (Mandatory)

Environment California Research & Policy Center
· Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Egypt Reenters the Fray
· Learning from Contemporary Conflicts to Prepare for Future War
· Redefining U.S. Interests in the Middle East

Georgia Tech Information Security Center
· Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009: Data, Mobility and Questions of Responsibility will Drive Cyber Threats in 2009 and Beyond

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Drug Safety: Better Data Management and More Inspections Are Needed to Strengthen FDA's Foreign Drug Inspection Program GAO-08-970
· Federal Energy Management: Agencies Are Acquiring Alternative Fuel Vehicles but Face Challenges in Meeting Other Fleet Objectives GAO-09-75R
· Responses to Questions for the Record; September 2008 Hearing on the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and Issues. GAO-09-130R
· Social Security Numbers Are Widely Available in Bulk and Online Records, but Changes to Enhance Security Are Occurring. GAO-08-1009R
· Social Security Numbers: Transfers and Sales of Public Records That May Contain Social Security Numbers (GAO-08-1004SP, September 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-1009R,
· VA National Initiatives and Local Programs that Address Education and Support for Families of Returning Veterans GAO-09-22R

Heritage Foundation
· The 2008 Index of Government Dependency
· Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: A Preventable Homeland Security Catastrophe
· Protecting Against the Terrorist Threat: Continuing the Fight and Confronting the Challenges Ahead

Hudson Institute
· Security Aspects of the South Stream Project

Human Rights Watch
· Not the Way Forward: The UK’s Dangerous Reliance on Diplomatic Assurances
· A Way Forward for Workers’ Rights in US Free Trade Accords

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· African Perspectives on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Dominique Dye
· Child Justice in South Africa
· The Pan-African Parliament, Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

International Crisis Group
· Burma/Myanmar after Nargis: Time to Normalise Aid Relations
· The Philippines: The Collapse of Peace in Mindanao
· Sudan’s Southern Kordofan: The Next Darfur?

International Peace Institute
· Pacific Settlement of Border Disputes: Lessons from the Bakassi Affair and the Greentree Agreement

International Relations and Security Network
· Costs of War: War on Bankruptcy
· Kazakhstan: Investor Status
· Palestine's Problematic Parlay
· A Perfect Storm: Calming the Global Food Crisis
· Turkish Military on the Defensive
· Ukraine's NATO Hopes Dashed

Lexington Institute
· Satellite Cancellation Raises Questions about Army Plans

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
· Interrogation World War II, Vietnam and Iraq

New America Foundation
· How Not to Lose Afghanistan (and Pakistan)

Organization of American States, Committee on Hemispheric Security
· Dealing with Gangs Involved in Criminal Activities

Pew Internet & American Family Life Project
· Networked Families: Parents and Spouses are Using the Internet and Cell Phones to Create a “New Connectedness” that Builds on Remote Connections and Shared Internet Experiences
· Related reports

President’s Identity Theft Task Force
· President’s Identity Theft Task Force Report -- Combating Identity Theft: A Strategic Plan

RAND
· Embracing the Future: Embedding digital repositories in the University of London · Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
· Improving Cost-Effectiveness and Mitigating Risks of Renewable Energy Requirements
· Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence: Assessing the Options http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG767.pdf

Henry L. Stimson Center
· New Information and Intelligence Needs in the 21st Century Threat Environment

Strategic Studies Institute
· Leadership and National Security Reform: The Next President's Agenda

Trust for America's Health
· Blueprint for a Healthier America: Modernizing the Federal Public Health System to Focus on Prevention and Preparedness

US Institute of Peace
· The Treasury Approach to State-Building and Institution-Strengthening Assistance: Experience in Iraq and Broader Implications
· Whither Peace Operations?

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· A Forum without a Future?
· UN Resolution 1701: A View from Israel
· UN Resolution 1701: A View from Lebanon
· UN Resolution 1701: A View from the United States

World Security Institute (WSI)
· Arab Insight, v. 2, no. 3, Fall 2008 - Arab Memo to the Next American President
o Engaging Islamist Groups: How to Talk to the Elephant in the Room by Mustapha Khalfi, Morocco
o Promoting Democracy in Arab Countries: Practice Makes Perfect? By Radwan Ziadeh, Syria
o Before Leaving Iraq: A Responsible Withdrawal by Salah al-Nasrawi, Iraq
o Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Searching for Peace on the Roadmap by Samir Ghattas, Palestinian Territory
o Improving U.S. Standing in the Arab World: Can Public Diplomacy Do the Trick? By Sadiq el-Faqih, Sudan
o Ending the Darfur Crisis: A Sudanese Perspective by Khaled al-Tegani al-Nour, Sudan
o The Future of U.S.-Arab Relations: Sinking in Oil? By Hussein Abdallah, Egypt
o Arabs, Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Balancing the Equation by Mohamed Abdel Salam, Egypt
o Resolving the Syrian Question: Why and How to Engage by Burhan Ghalioun, Syria
o Greasing the Presses: Money and Journalism in Egypt by Mohamed Ezz el-Arab, Egypt
o Social and Political Change: In the Wake of the Oil Boom by Hassanein Tawfiq Ibrahim, United Arab Emirates
o Egyptian Public Opinion: The Role of Satellite TV Stations by Sobhi Essaila, Egypt

REPORT - Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and “Other Means"

The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point has released its newest report - Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and “Other Means".

From their press release on the report:

This report addresses Iran’s dual-strategy of providing military aid to Iraqi militia groups and giving political support to Iraqi political parties. Although the report details the scope and nature of Iranian support to Iraqi militias, it concludes that Iran’s political efforts are the core of its effort to project influence within Iraq. The report also concludes that Iran has recently worked to reduce the level of violence in Iraq while concentrating on a political campaign to shape the SFA and SOFA agreements to its strategic ends. The report does not address Iran’s economic and social influence in Iraq.

· Chapter 1 of the report describes Iran’s covert operations in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, including the formation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

· Chapter 2 assesses the trajectory of Iranian intervention in Iraq since 2003.

· Chapters 3 and 4 describe Iranian lethal aid in Iraq and draw heavily on the interrogation summaries of detained militia members.

· Chapter 5 provides key findings and recommendations.