Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency

The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency.

The conference presentation is available at http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1881/

Synopsis:

The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency." The Commission’s three major findings are:

1. Cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the United States;
2. Decisions and actions must respect American values related to privacy and civil liberties; and
3. Only a comprehensive national security strategy that embraces both the domestic and international aspects of cybersecurity will improve the situation.

House Oversight report - Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity

The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved a report “finding that President Bush made a “legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege” when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s interview of Vice President Cheney from the Committee.”

The draft report, appendices and related information can be found at
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2282

The information related to the entire investigation can be found at
http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=115

new reports of interest - Genocide and future flashpoints

The Genocide Prevention Task Force has released its report Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers.

The main website with the report broken into parts is http://www.usip.org/genocide_taskforce/report.html

The Joint Forces Command released is Joint Operating Environment 2008 report. This report outlines threats and opportunities U.S. joint forces may confront in the next 25 years.

Friday's Miscellany 12-05-2008

Air University
Strategic Studies Quarterly Winter 2008, v. 2, no. 4
· Charting a Strategic Course in Interesting Times by LtGen Allen G. Peck, USAF
· Transformation in the French Air Force in an Era of Change by Général d’armée aérienne Stéphane Abrial, chef d’etat-major de l’armée de l’air
· In Service to the Nation . . . Air Force Research Institute Strategic Concept for 2018-2023 by Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired
· Understanding Airpower: Bonfire of the Fallacies by Colin S. Gray
· Living in Interesting Times: The Economics of a Chinese Currency Attack by Col Jeffrey E. Haymond, USAF
· A Strategic Conversation about National Missile Defense by 1st Lt Alexi A. LeFevre, USAF
· Why Did It All Go Wrong? Reassessing British Counterinsurgency in Iraq by Warren Chin

American Enterprise Institute
· Securing Freedom: The U.S.-Japanese Alliance in a New Era

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute (ADC-RI)
· 2003-2007 Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans

Atlantic Council of the United States
· Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq

BASIC
· Getting to Zero Update, 4 December 2008
· Iran Update, 3 December 2008

Brookings Institution
· Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy Toward Iran
· Public Policies to Assist Internally Displaced Persons: The Role of Municipal Authorities
· A Time for Diplomatic Renewal: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East

CATO
· The Case Against Government Intervention in Energy Markets

Center for American Progress
· A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
· Bin Laden: Better "Dead" or "Alive"?

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Remodeling the U.S. Government for Energy Security: Initial Findings from the Big Energy Map

Center for Security Policy
· Fact vs. Fiction on Food vs. Fuel
· Intelligence Mis-Estimates
· The Jihadist-Multicultural Alliance

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Defense Industrial Initiatives Current Issues: Defense Economics
· How Soon is Safe?: Iraqi Force Development and Conditions-Based US Withdrawals
· Saudi National Security and the Saudi-US Strategic Partnership
· Special Brief: Homeland Security in an Obama Administration

Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
· The World at Risk OR http://www.preventwmd.gov/report/

Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
· A Path Forward: Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Terror Groups in India

Department of Defense
· Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…Subject: Recommendations on the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2008-119 Construction Contracting Procedures Implemented by the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan, September 29, 2008
· Errata memo

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008
· PRECIOUS METAL: Copper Theft Threatens U.S. Infrastructure
· Today's FBI: Celebrating a Century of Service: Facts and Figures, 2008-2009

Fort Leavenworth. Combined Arms Center
Military Review, November-December 2008, v. 88, no. 6
· Enable from Overwatch: MNF-Iraq by General Raymond T. Odierno
· The Strategy of Protracted People’s War: Uganda by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda
· Rethinking IO: Complex Operations in the Information Age by Huba Wass de Czege
· IO Contest 2008, 1st Place --Irregular Warfare Information Operations: Understanding the Role of People, Capabilities, and Effects by Norman E. Emery
· Georgia: The War Russia Lost by Stephen J. Blank
· China’s Electronic Long-Range Reconnaissance by Timothy L. Thomas
· On Metaphors We are Led By Christopher R. Paparone
· Sociocultural Expertise and the Military: Beyond the Controversy by Pauline Kusiak
· Revisiting Modern Warfare: Counterinsurgency in the Mada’in Qada by David G. Fivecoat and Aaron T. Schwengler
· How Jesse James, the Telegraph, and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 Can Help the Army Win the War on Terrorism by Peter E. Kunkel Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
· Planning Full Spectrum Operations: Implications of FM 3-0 on Planning Doctrine by Glenn A. Henke
· MacArthur Contest 2008, 1st Place-- Relooking Unit Cohesion: A Sensemaking Approach by Geoff van Epps
· Reconstruction: A Damaging Fantasy? By Amitai Etzioni

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance GAO-09-242T
· Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance GAO-09-247T
· Flood Insurance: FEMA's Rate-Setting Process Warrants Attention GAO-09-12
· International Climate Change Programs: Lessons Learned from the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism GAO-09-151
· Transportation Security Administration's Suspension of the Butane Lighter Ban Onboard Commercial Aircraft GAO-09-177R
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency GAO-09-161
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Defaults and Foreclosures on Home Mortgages GAO-09-231T

Heritage Foundation
· Assessing Plans to Deploy U.S. Military on the Homeland Security Front
· Cabinet-Level FEMA Not Needed
· Moving Forward with Ballistic Missile Defense: A Memo to President-elect Obama
· Mumbai Massacres Prove Threat of Small Boats to National Security
· U.S. South Asia Regional - Not Kashmir - Envoy Needed
· Yes, a Nuclear Iran Is Unacceptable: A Memo to President-elect Obama

Human Rights Watch
· An Atmosphere of Quiet Repression: Freedom of Religion, Assembly and Expression in Kazakhstan
· The Restriction of Political Space in the Democratic Republic of Congo
· Stuck in a Revolving Door: Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union

Institute for Science International Security (ISIS)
· Has Iran Achieved a Nuclear Weapons Breakout Capability? Not Yet, But Soon

International Crisis Group
· Crisis Watch no. 64, 1 December 2008

International Relations and Security Network
· Beijing's Latin America Inroads
· China's Cold War on Tibet
· Iran: Reacting to Obama
· Rhetoric: Western Balkan Recipe
· Vietnamese Inquisition
· The Word War: 'Yes, He Did'

Lexington Institute
· Aerospace Plea Raises Broader Economic Questions

Lowry Institute for International Policy
· The Sting of Climate Change: Malaria and Dengue Fever in Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

Partnership for Public Service
· In the Public We Trust: Renewing the Connection Between the Federal Government and the Public

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· India: Global Optimism, Local Fears

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)
· Forging a New Shield

RAND
· Enhancement by Enlargement: The Proliferation Security Initiative
· The Problem of Measuring Emergency Preparedness: The Need for Assessing ‘Response Reliability’ as Part of Homeland Security Planning

US Army
· Army Leader Transition Handbook
· Stability Operations (FM 3-07)

US Institute of Peace
· PeaceWatch December 2008

US Joint Forces Command
· The JOE2008. Joint Operating Environment Challenges and Implications for the Future Joint Force

Washington Institute for Near East Studies
· Financial Setbacks for Hamas

White House
· Fact Sheet: Defending Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism

REPORT - National Security System Reform

The Project on National Security Reform and the Center for the Study of the Presidency has released their review of the national security interagency system. The report, "Forging a New Shield" is an 830 page document and is the result Sec. 1049 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008 [PL 110-181]. This PL required a study of the national security interagency system by an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization.

The members of the committee were unanimous in their sense that the national security of the US is fundamentally at risk. They analyze the problems, the causes, the consequences and proposed a set of reforms.

Also available is the press release, the executive summary, major reports, case studies and the preliminary findings report from July 2008.

WMD Commission report

The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Proliferation and Terrorism released its new report today -- The World at Risk.

If you have trouble with the link go to their main website --
http://www.preventwmd.gov/report/ where the report can be viewed or
downloaded as a whole as in its various parts.

Friday's Miscellany 11-28-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· Hatred in the Time of Cholera
· Iraq, the Status of Forces Agreement, and American Interests
· Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade

Amnesty International
· Haiti: Don't Turn Your Back on Girls. Sexual Violence Against Girls in Haiti

ASIS International
· Preventing Gun Violence in the Workplace

Association of Space Explorers International Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation
· Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response

Brookings Institution
· Better Aid: Responding to Gaps in Effectiveness
· The Origins of the Financial Crisis
· A New Era of International Cooperation for a Changed World: 2009, 2010, and Beyond
· Re-Thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Behind the Mumbai Attacks [NPR interview with Ashley Tellis]

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes
· The International Uranium Enrichment Center at Angarsk: A Step Towards Assured Fuel Supply?
· NukeTube Nonproliferation Multimedia Library
· Trafficking Networks for Chemical Weapons Precursors

Center for Security Policy
· National Security Scorecard 2007/2008
· Will the Real Bush Finally Stand Up?

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Israeli and Syrian Conventional Military Balance: An Overview
· Israeli-Syrian Air and SAM Strength Analysis: Working Estimates of Force Numbers and Location
· World Energy Outlook 2008

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

Century Foundation
· Reinventing Transparent Government

Congress. House Armed Services Committee. Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations
· Joint Improvised Explosive Device Organization: DOD’s Fight Against IEDs Today and Tomorrow

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· A Review of the Department of Defense's National Security Personnel System

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Counterterrorism in India
· The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations
· Mexico's Drug War
· Terror Groups in India
· Turkey at an Energy Crossroads

Department of Homeland Security
· Directive 257-01, Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act
· Instruction 257-01-001, Instruction Guide on the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act

Department of the Navy
· Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Homeporting of Additional Surface Ships at Naval Station Mayport, Florida
· Maritime Domain Awareness Architecture Management Hub Strategy

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration
· Where is Egypt Headed?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Confirmation of Political Appointees: Eliciting Nominees' Views on Management Challenges within Agencies and across Government. GAO-09-194
· Defense Acquisitions: Timely and Accurate Estimates of Costs and Requirements Are Needed to Define Optimal Future Strategic Airlift Mix. GAO-09-50
· Defense Management: Preliminary Observations on DOD's Plans for Developing Language and Cultural Awareness Capabilities GAO-09-176R
· Foreign Assistance: Continued Efforts Needed to Strengthen USAID's Oversight of U.S. Democracy Assistance for Cuba. GAO-09-165
· Foreign Assistance: State Department Foreign Aid Information Systems Have Improved Change Management Practices but Do Not Follow Risk Management Best Practices. GAO-09-52R
· Human Capital: Diversity in the Federal SES and Processes for Selecting New Executives. GAO-09-110 · Northern Border Security: DHS's Report Could Better Inform Congress by Identifying Actions, Resources, and Time Frames Needed to Address Vulnerabilities. GAO-09-93
· Wildland Fire Management: Interagency Budget Tool Needs Further Development to Fully Meet Key Objectives GAO-09-68

Heritage Foundation
· After Mumbai: Could It Happen Here? What to Do
· Anti-Piracy Initiatives Should Reflect U.S. Maritime Interests
· Challenges in Latin America: Russians in Caracas, Misrule in Managua
· Experiencing America: Public Diplomacy at Its Best
· Fighting the Odds: Venezuela's Opposition Scores Key Victories
· Homeland Security Oversight Reform Requires Leadership
· India Terror Attacks Point to Need for Stronger U.S.-India Counterterrorism Cooperation
· Pentagon Should Battle Pirates and Terrorists with Laser Technology
· U.S.–India Relations: The China Factor
· Why the World Still Needs America's Military Might

Human Rights Watch
· Congo: The World's Deadliest War
· Stuck in a Revolving Door: Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union
· A Testing Challenge: The Experience of Lesotho’s Universal HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign
· "We Will Crush You": The Restriction of Political Space in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
· Shared Destinies: Security in a Globalised World [free registration required]

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· CRU Policy Brief: Reinforcing Efforts to Seize the Fleeting Window of Opportunity in North Kivu

International Crisis Group
· Georgia: The Risks of Winter

International Peace Institute
· Implementing the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy in South Asia

International Relations and Security Network
· Balkans: Green Light for Legal War
· China's Capitalist Gangster
· Crimea in Trouble
· Uncertainties Cloud Iraq SOFA
· Under Attack, India Reels
· Violent Non-state Actors and National and International Security

Lexington Institute
· Hidden Danger: The Threat to America's Networks

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
· United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 Database

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Winds of Political Change Haven’t Shifted Public’s Ideology Balance

Potomac Institute
· Terrorism Report: The Ideological Battlespace

RAND
· Between Politics and Clinics -- The Many Faces of Biomedical Policy in Europe: Analysis of Drivers and Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policy -- Volume I: Synthesis Report
· Between Politics and Clinics -- The Many Faces of Biomedical Policy in Europe: Analysis of Drivers and Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policy -- Volume II: Three Country Case Studies
· Improving the Safety and Security of Freight and Passenger Rail in Pennsylvania
· RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes

UN Security Council
· Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Afghanistan
· Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Somalia

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Gulf Energy Exports: Existing Alternative Pipeline Routes [graphic]
· The Money Trail: Finding, Following, and Freezing Terrorist Finances
· Oil Export Flows from the Middle East [graphic]
· Rebuilding U.S.-Libyan Relations Twenty Years after Lockerbie
· Syria's Reactor: Can the IAEA Act Effectively?
· Violence by Extremists in the Jewish Settler Movement: A Rising Challenge

White House
· Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq
· Strategic Framework Agreement for a Relationship of Friendship and Cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq