parts.
The NYT story is on their website
Monday, December 15, 2008
SIGIR report - Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience
Though not posted on the official SIGIR site yet, the New York Times has posted a draft copy of the report "Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience." It is 508 pages as a full PDF but is also available in
parts.
parts.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Friday's Miscellany 12-12-2008
Air University
· Air & Space Power Journal, Winter 2008, v. 22, no.
o Lichte on Leadership: A Yankees Fan’s Perspective by Gen Arthur J. Lichte
o Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power by Lt Col Paul D. Berg
o Defense of US Space Assets: A Legal Perspective by Capt Adam E. Frey
o Shifting the Air Force’s Support Ideology to Exploit Combined Arms in the Close Fight by Lt Col Collin T. Ireton
o Why We Should End the Aviator Continuation Pay Bonus Program by Maj Brian E. A. Maue
o An Airman’s View of United States Air Force Airpower by Dr. Stephen E. Wright
o Asking the Right Questions by Capt David Blair
o Asymmetric Air Support by Maj Gary L. Burg
o Human Performance Enhancement: Überhumans or Ethical Morass? By Col Lex Brown, and Lt Col Anthony P. Tvaryanas
o Air-Mindedness by Dr. Dale L. Hayden
o The Reconstitution Imperative© by Les Doggrell
o Self-Evaluation: A Disconnect in Our Values by Col Jim Slife
o Control of Theater Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance for the Ground Commander by Maj Steven Maceda
American Enterprise Institute
· Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?
· How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic
Amnesty International
· Mauritania's Security Forces Guilty of Routine Torture
Border Network for Human Rights
· U.S. – Mexico Border Policy Report “Effective Border Policy: Security, Responsibility and Human Rights at the U.S. – Mexico Border”
Brookings Institution
· Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega: Not Another Mugabe, Please
· Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Another Step Forward with CAREC
· Strengthen the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Better Results are Possible
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Canada, the USA, and the Financial Crisis: Risks and Opportunities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Islamists in Politics: The Dynamics of Participation
· Syrian–Israeli Peace: A Possible Key to Regional Change
· U.S. Nuclear Forces in Europe to Zero? Yes, But Not Yet
Center for American Progress
· Building a Military for the 21st Century
· The Challenge Facing a Shared Vision for Action to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change
· A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming
· The Global Meltdown: A Background Brief
· The Neglected Alliance: Restoring U.S.–Turkish Relations to Meet 21st Century Challenges
· Interactive Map: U.S. Must Lead Global Action on Economy: Many G20 Countries Are Struggling to Cope · Restoring U.S.–Turkish Relations to Meet 21st Century Challenges
· Transitioning to a New U.S. International Economic Policy: Toward a “Global Deal” to Revive and Broaden the Benefits of Growth
Center for National Policy
· Agility Across the Spectrum: a Future Force Blueprint
· Challenges for the Army in the 21st Century
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Central Asia Becomes A Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· International Collaborative Online Networks: Lessons Identified from the Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part V: The Broader Strategic Context
· Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency
· South Asia Monitor: The Refugee Problem: Looking Toward Afghanistan’s Long-Term Stability
· Transitioning Defense Organizational Initiatives: An Assessment of Key 2001-2008 Defense Reforms
· The United States and Southeast Asia: Toward a Strategy for Enhanced Cooperation
· Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
Centre for European Reform
· Ten Things Everyone Should Know About the Sino-Russian Relationship
Committee on the Present Danger
· Marching Towards Nuclearization: Iran Approaches Another Nuclear Milestone
Congress. House Oversight & Government Reform Committee
· Draft Report regarding President Bush's Assertion of Executive Privilege in Response to the Committee Subpoena to Attorney General Michael V. Mukasey
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody
Congress. Senate. Environment and Public Works Committee
· U.S. Senate Minority Report: More than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-030 Marine Corps Implementation of the Urgent Universal Needs Process for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, December 8, 2008 (Project No. D2008-D000AE-0174.000). The report is For Official Use Only. Results in Brief (Unclassified) http://pogoarchives.org/m/ns/dod-ig-report-20081208.pdf
Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics
· Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2007 Annual Report
Director of National Intelligence
· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 651 - Performance Management System Requirements for the Intelligence Community Civilian Workforce
Emergency Medicine Foundation
· The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine: Evaluating the Emergency Care Environment State by State
Foreign Policy Research Institute
· Where is Egypt Headed?
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Actions Taken to Implement the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 GAO-09-59R · Homeland Security: U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program Planning and Execution Improvements Needed GAO-09-96
· Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution GAO-09-133
· Status of GAO Recommendations to the Department of Defense (Fiscal Years 2001-2007). GAO-09-d201R
· Terrorism Insurance: Status of Coverage Availability for Attacks Involving Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, or Radiological Weapons. GAO-09-39
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency GAO-09-266T
Heritage Foundation
· After Mumbai: Time to Strengthen U.S.–India Counterterrorism Cooperation
· Britain's Armed Forces: Victorious Abroad, Imperiled at Home
· Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks
· Successful Missile Defense Test Shows Technology Not "Unproven"
Human Rights Watch
· Closing Ranks Against Accountability: Barriers to Tackling Police Violence in Turkey
· Killings in Kiwanja: The UN’s Inability to Protect Civilians
· "So Much to Fear": War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia
· An Unbreakable Cycle: Drug Dependency Treatment, Mandatory Confinement, and HIV/AIDS in China’s Guangxi Province
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· Ethiopia and Eritrea in Turmoil: Implications for Peace and Security in a Troubled Region, Jonathan Ewing
· ISS Paper 174: The Nile: Is it a Curse or Blessing? Debay Tadesse
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
· America’s Role in the World: Foreign policy Choices for the Next President
International Council on Security and Development
· Struggle For Kabul: The Taliban Advance
International Crisis Group
· Bangladesh: Elections and Beyond
· Central African Republic: Untangling the Political Dialogue
· Northern Uganda: The Road to Peace, with or Without Kony
International Relations and Security Network
· Bosnia: Blame Santa
· Costs of War: Silent Suffering
· Intel Brief: Nuclear Floats
· Kuwait's Political Morass
· The Neo-Taliban: A Year On
· Switzerland: Executive Sweepstakes
· UN Declaration of Human Rights at 60: What Role for EU Foreign Policy?
Lexington Institute
· Navy Plan for Huge Network Looks Likely to Fail
· Telling the Aerospace Story in an Era of Economic Decline
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
· Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex
National Security Agency (NSA)
· West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documented History
New America Foundation
· Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting
· U.S. Weapons at War 2008
Project on Defense Alternatives
· Forceful Engagement: Rethinking the Role of Military Power in US Global Policy
· Re-Envisioning Defense: An Agenda for US Policy Debate & Transition
RAND
· A Call to Revitalize the Engines of Government
· Chinese Corporate Governance: History and Institutional Framework
· Marrying Prevention and Resiliency: Balancing Approaches to an Uncertain Terrorist Threat
· Midseason Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: Detailed Survey Data Tables
· Midseason Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: A Snapshot as of Mid-November 2008
· Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal: Prospects and Policy Issues
· Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Analysis of CONUS Centralized Intermediate Repair Facilities
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
· State of World Population 2008
Union of Concerned Scientists
· UCS Backgrounder - Missile Defense Test FTG-05
US Institute of Peace
· Evaluating Iraq’s Provincial Reconstruction Teams While Drawdown Looms: A USIP Trip Report
· Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· The EU and Syria Move Closer
· In Her Own Words: Hillary Clinton on the Middle East
· West Bank Hardball: Fatah's Offensive Against Hamas
· Air & Space Power Journal, Winter 2008, v. 22, no.
o Lichte on Leadership: A Yankees Fan’s Perspective by Gen Arthur J. Lichte
o Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power by Lt Col Paul D. Berg
o Defense of US Space Assets: A Legal Perspective by Capt Adam E. Frey
o Shifting the Air Force’s Support Ideology to Exploit Combined Arms in the Close Fight by Lt Col Collin T. Ireton
o Why We Should End the Aviator Continuation Pay Bonus Program by Maj Brian E. A. Maue
o An Airman’s View of United States Air Force Airpower by Dr. Stephen E. Wright
o Asking the Right Questions by Capt David Blair
o Asymmetric Air Support by Maj Gary L. Burg
o Human Performance Enhancement: Überhumans or Ethical Morass? By Col Lex Brown, and Lt Col Anthony P. Tvaryanas
o Air-Mindedness by Dr. Dale L. Hayden
o The Reconstitution Imperative© by Les Doggrell
o Self-Evaluation: A Disconnect in Our Values by Col Jim Slife
o Control of Theater Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance for the Ground Commander by Maj Steven Maceda
American Enterprise Institute
· Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?
· How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic
Amnesty International
· Mauritania's Security Forces Guilty of Routine Torture
Border Network for Human Rights
· U.S. – Mexico Border Policy Report “Effective Border Policy: Security, Responsibility and Human Rights at the U.S. – Mexico Border”
Brookings Institution
· Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega: Not Another Mugabe, Please
· Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Another Step Forward with CAREC
· Strengthen the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Better Results are Possible
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Canada, the USA, and the Financial Crisis: Risks and Opportunities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Islamists in Politics: The Dynamics of Participation
· Syrian–Israeli Peace: A Possible Key to Regional Change
· U.S. Nuclear Forces in Europe to Zero? Yes, But Not Yet
Center for American Progress
· Building a Military for the 21st Century
· The Challenge Facing a Shared Vision for Action to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change
· A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming
· The Global Meltdown: A Background Brief
· The Neglected Alliance: Restoring U.S.–Turkish Relations to Meet 21st Century Challenges
· Interactive Map: U.S. Must Lead Global Action on Economy: Many G20 Countries Are Struggling to Cope · Restoring U.S.–Turkish Relations to Meet 21st Century Challenges
· Transitioning to a New U.S. International Economic Policy: Toward a “Global Deal” to Revive and Broaden the Benefits of Growth
Center for National Policy
· Agility Across the Spectrum: a Future Force Blueprint
· Challenges for the Army in the 21st Century
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Central Asia Becomes A Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· International Collaborative Online Networks: Lessons Identified from the Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part V: The Broader Strategic Context
· Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency
· South Asia Monitor: The Refugee Problem: Looking Toward Afghanistan’s Long-Term Stability
· Transitioning Defense Organizational Initiatives: An Assessment of Key 2001-2008 Defense Reforms
· The United States and Southeast Asia: Toward a Strategy for Enhanced Cooperation
· Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
Centre for European Reform
· Ten Things Everyone Should Know About the Sino-Russian Relationship
Committee on the Present Danger
· Marching Towards Nuclearization: Iran Approaches Another Nuclear Milestone
Congress. House Oversight & Government Reform Committee
· Draft Report regarding President Bush's Assertion of Executive Privilege in Response to the Committee Subpoena to Attorney General Michael V. Mukasey
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody
Congress. Senate. Environment and Public Works Committee
· U.S. Senate Minority Report: More than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-030 Marine Corps Implementation of the Urgent Universal Needs Process for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, December 8, 2008 (Project No. D2008-D000AE-0174.000). The report is For Official Use Only. Results in Brief (Unclassified) http://pogoarchives.org/m/ns/dod-ig-report-20081208.pdf
Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics
· Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2007 Annual Report
Director of National Intelligence
· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 651 - Performance Management System Requirements for the Intelligence Community Civilian Workforce
Emergency Medicine Foundation
· The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine: Evaluating the Emergency Care Environment State by State
Foreign Policy Research Institute
· Where is Egypt Headed?
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Actions Taken to Implement the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 GAO-09-59R · Homeland Security: U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program Planning and Execution Improvements Needed GAO-09-96
· Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution GAO-09-133
· Status of GAO Recommendations to the Department of Defense (Fiscal Years 2001-2007). GAO-09-d201R
· Terrorism Insurance: Status of Coverage Availability for Attacks Involving Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, or Radiological Weapons. GAO-09-39
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency GAO-09-266T
Heritage Foundation
· After Mumbai: Time to Strengthen U.S.–India Counterterrorism Cooperation
· Britain's Armed Forces: Victorious Abroad, Imperiled at Home
· Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks
· Successful Missile Defense Test Shows Technology Not "Unproven"
Human Rights Watch
· Closing Ranks Against Accountability: Barriers to Tackling Police Violence in Turkey
· Killings in Kiwanja: The UN’s Inability to Protect Civilians
· "So Much to Fear": War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia
· An Unbreakable Cycle: Drug Dependency Treatment, Mandatory Confinement, and HIV/AIDS in China’s Guangxi Province
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· Ethiopia and Eritrea in Turmoil: Implications for Peace and Security in a Troubled Region, Jonathan Ewing
· ISS Paper 174: The Nile: Is it a Curse or Blessing? Debay Tadesse
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
· America’s Role in the World: Foreign policy Choices for the Next President
International Council on Security and Development
· Struggle For Kabul: The Taliban Advance
International Crisis Group
· Bangladesh: Elections and Beyond
· Central African Republic: Untangling the Political Dialogue
· Northern Uganda: The Road to Peace, with or Without Kony
International Relations and Security Network
· Bosnia: Blame Santa
· Costs of War: Silent Suffering
· Intel Brief: Nuclear Floats
· Kuwait's Political Morass
· The Neo-Taliban: A Year On
· Switzerland: Executive Sweepstakes
· UN Declaration of Human Rights at 60: What Role for EU Foreign Policy?
Lexington Institute
· Navy Plan for Huge Network Looks Likely to Fail
· Telling the Aerospace Story in an Era of Economic Decline
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
· Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex
National Security Agency (NSA)
· West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documented History
New America Foundation
· Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting
· U.S. Weapons at War 2008
Project on Defense Alternatives
· Forceful Engagement: Rethinking the Role of Military Power in US Global Policy
· Re-Envisioning Defense: An Agenda for US Policy Debate & Transition
RAND
· A Call to Revitalize the Engines of Government
· Chinese Corporate Governance: History and Institutional Framework
· Marrying Prevention and Resiliency: Balancing Approaches to an Uncertain Terrorist Threat
· Midseason Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: Detailed Survey Data Tables
· Midseason Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: A Snapshot as of Mid-November 2008
· Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal: Prospects and Policy Issues
· Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Analysis of CONUS Centralized Intermediate Repair Facilities
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
· State of World Population 2008
Union of Concerned Scientists
· UCS Backgrounder - Missile Defense Test FTG-05
US Institute of Peace
· Evaluating Iraq’s Provincial Reconstruction Teams While Drawdown Looms: A USIP Trip Report
· Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· The EU and Syria Move Closer
· In Her Own Words: Hillary Clinton on the Middle East
· West Bank Hardball: Fatah's Offensive Against Hamas
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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:
- Cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the
- Decisions and actions must respect American values related to privacy and civil liberties; and
- 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
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
Monday, December 8, 2008
new reports of interest - Genocide and future flashpoints
The Genocide Prevention Task Force has released its report Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for
The Joint Forces Command released is Joint Operating Environment 2008 report. This report outlines threats and opportunities
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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
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
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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.
Also available is the press release, the executive summary, major reports, case studies and the preliminary findings report from July 2008.
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