Friday's Miscellany 05-21-2010

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Connecting with Kabul: The Importance of the Wolesi Jirga Election and Local Political Networks in Afghanistan

Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
· The Responsibility to Prevent: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies for Operationalisation

Atlantic Council
· NATO 2020 Group of Experts Report

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· The India-China Relationship: A Tempered Rivalry?

Baker Institute
· Diplopedia Imagined: Building State’s Diplomacy Wiki

Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
· Reducing and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Country Perspectives on the Challenges to Nuclear Disarmament

Brookings Institution
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated May 19, 2010 and archive]
· China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 (Part 2: Cabinet Ministers)
o Part 1
· Non-Proliferation and the Nuclear “Renaissance”: The Contribution and Responsibilities of the Nuclear Industry
· U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

Center for American Progress
· Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
· The Oil Disaster Is a Health Disaster, Too How to Protect Public Health in the Aftermath of Major Disasters

Center for a New American Security
· America’s Extended Hand: Assessing the Obama Administration’s Global Engagement Strategy

Center for International Policy
· Fallacies of High-Tech Fixes for Border Security

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· 2009 Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes
· Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: Examining the Validity of Nuclear Deterrence
· Reducing and Regulating Tactical (Nonstrategic) Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Moving Forward?

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 74: Obama's Nuclear Policy: Limited Change

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept
o Briefing slides

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Building U.S. Diplomatic Capacity for Global Health
· Department of Defense, State Department, USAID, and NSC Reporting on the Afghan War
· European Defense Trends: Annotated Brief
· Issues in International Political Economy - Reality Comes to the Fore - May 2010 - Number 125
· Policy Brief Case Study: The OSCE and the 2010 Crisis in Kyrgyzstan
· Saudi Arabia and Gulf Security

Center for Technology and National Security Policy
· Bio-Inspired Innovation and National Security htt

Century Foundation
· The Role of Infrastructure Investment in Economic Growth

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o H.R. 5136 – To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes [May 19, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Afghanistan Reconstruction Oversight
· Oversight on the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Viewpoints on Homeland Security: A Discussion with the 9/11 Commissioners

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
· Deepwater Horizon: Oil Spill Prevention and Response Measures, and Natural Resource Impacts
· Implementation of the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006 and Reauthorization of the Pipeline Safety Program
· Too Much For Too Little: Finding the Cost-Risk Balance

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation
· Response Efforts to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· The New START Treaty
· After the Earthquake: Empowering Haiti to Rebuild Better
· The History and Lessons of START
· NATO: Report of the Group of Experts

Congress. Senate. Homeland & Governmental Affairs Committee
· Gulf Coast Catastrophe: Assessing the Nation's Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
· Counternarcotics Contracts in Latin America
· Balancing Act: Efforts to Right-Size the Federal Employee-to-Contractor Mix

Congress. Senate. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
· History of Inaugurations

Congress. Senate. Select Intelligence Committee
· Unclassified Executive Summary of the Committee Report on the Attempted Terrorist Attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Economic and Budget Outlook

Department of the Army
· Cyberspace Operations Concept Capability Plan 2016-2028 [TRADOC Pamphlet 525-7-8]

Department of Defense
· Cyber Security
· Law Enforcement Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) System -eGuardian
· US Cyber Command Fact Sheet

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-058 Selected Controls for Information Assurance at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
· D-2010-059 Contingency Contracting: A Framework for Reform

Department of Justice, National Gang Center
· History of Street Gangs in the United States

EU Institute for Security Studies
· The Prospects for Security Cooperation in the Persian Gulf
· The Trilateral Iranian Nuclear Agreement: Shell Games, International Style

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Policies and Procedures for Preparing Public Health Products Should Be Strengthened, GAO-10-741T [testimony]
· Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Policies and Procedures for Public Health Product Preparation Should Be Strengthened, GAO-10-449 ht
· Aviation Security: Efforts to Validate TSA's Passenger Screening Behavior Detection Program Underway, but Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Validation and Address Operational Challenges, GAO-10-763
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: An Appropriate Methodology Is Needed for Determining Administrative Costs Attributable to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, GAO-10-610R · Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: DHS Needs to Conclude Negotiations and Finalize Regulations to Implement Federal Immigration Law, GAO-10-671T [testimony]
· Debt Management: Treasury Was Able to Fund Economic Stabilization and Recovery Expenditures in a Short Period of Time, but Debt Management Challenges Remain, GAO-10-498
· Defense Acquisitions: Observations on Weapon Program Performance and Acquisition Reforms, GAO-10-706T [testimony]
· Information Security: Veterans Affairs Needs to Resolve Long-Standing Weaknesses, GAO-10-727T [testimony]
· Nonprofit Sector: Treatment and Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Vary among Grants, and Depend Significantly on Federal, State, and Local Government Practices, GAO-10-477

Heritage Foundation
· The Federal Response to the Oil Spill: Lessons to Be Learned
· The Interdependence of National Security and National Sovereignty
· SBInet: Homeland Security Should Not Abandon Border Security Technology
· Ten Recommendations for the Cameron Administration on NATO and the EU
· Treating Terrorism Solely as a Law Enforcement Matter – Not Miranda – Is the Problem h
· US Coast Guard Budget Cuts: The Wrong Direction to Take

Homeland Security Institute
· The Internet as a Terrorist Tool for Recruitment and Radicalization of Youth

Human Rights Foundation
· “We’ll Tie You Up and Shoot You”: Lack of Accountability for Political Violence in Burundi

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· ISIS Analysis of Main Committee Draft Reports

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
· Checkmating the Resurgence of Oil Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

Institute for the Study of War
· Afghanistan – Order of Battle (May 2010)
· Fact Sheet: Government Formation in Iraq
· Iraq – Order of Battle (May 2010)

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
· Internal Displacement Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2009

International Crisis Group
· The Rule of Law in Independent Kosovo
· Somalia’s Divided Islamists
· Timor-Leste: Oecusse and the Indonesian Border
· War Crimes in Sri Lanka

International Monetary Foundation (IMF)
· Fiscal Stimulus and Credibility in Emerging Countries
· International Transmission of Bank and Corporate Distress

International Relations and Security Network
· Hungarian 'Provocation' Irks Slovakia
· Intel Brief: The Chad Withdrawal
· New Beginnings in the Balkans?
· Obama’s Drone Handicap
· Rerouting Logistics in Afghanistan
· Thai Army Moves in for the Kill
· Turkish-Azerbaijani Gas Deal Postponed
· A World on the Margin

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, May 20, 2010, v. 8, no. 20
o The Asian Tigers -- The New Face of the Punjabi Taliban
o Muqtada al-Sadr Calls for a New Role for the Jaysh al-Mahdi Militia in Iraq
o Renegade Generals Threaten Unity of South Sudan's SPLA as Independence Referendum Approaches

National Academies Press
· Advancing the Science of Climate Change
· Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
· Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
· NATO 2020: Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement: Analysis and Recommendations of the Group of Experts on a New Strategic Concept for NATO

Norwegian Refugee Council
· Confusion and Palava: The Logic of Land Encroachment in Lofa County, Liberia
· Not Displaced, Out-of-Place - Education of IDP Children in Georgia

Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU)
· PSRU Brief # 57. Socio Economic Cost of Terrorism: A Case Study of Pakistan

Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
· The Culture and Conflict Review, Spring 2010, v. 4. No. 1
o COIN: Theory & Practice
o Ridicule as a Tool for IO/PSYOPS in Afghanistan by Michael Cohn and Paul Sims
o Understanding the Problem in Afghanistan: A Plan for Stability by Nathan A. Minami
o Revisiting COIN in Basra by Glen Segell
o What Would Caesar Say? Modern Warfare through Classical Eyes by James Spencer
o The Iraq Invasion, Seven Years Later: Rebuilding Iraq, Rethinking Iran
o The Political Economy of Iraq's Growing Oil Power: A Crucial Phase by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi
o WMD Intelligence Analysis of Lessons from Iraq to Iran: Only dot the I’s – don’t cross the T’s by Glen Segell o International Economic Influence on Iranian Behavior: An Analysis by Lt Col Robert S. Renfro and David A. Anderson
o Diplomacy & Tribal Politics
o Cold Snap: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit by Barry Zellen

RAND
· Cultural Themes in Messages from Top Air Force Leaders, 2005-2008
· Deterrence and First-Strike Stability in Space: A Preliminary Assessment htt
· The Development of China’s Air Force Capabilities (Testimony)
· Potential Effects of Chinese Aerospace Capabilities on US Air Force Operations (Testimony)

Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
· The Politics of the Futenma Base Issue in Okinawa: Relocation Negotiations in 1995-1997, 2005-2006

Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
· Experimental Programs for Mind Control or Behavioral Modification Purposes
· Foreign Military Sales 1950 - 1998

Small Wars Journal
· The Hidden Engagement: Interpreters
· The Jones Insurgency Model: A Tool for the Prevention and Resolution of Insurgency
· Leveraging Legitimacy: A Key Tool in Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
· “Partnership ‘Till it Hurts”: The Use of Fusion Cells to Establish Unity of Effort Between SOF (Yin) and Conventional Forces (Yang)

Stimson Center
· Local Contours of Security in Afghanistan

Strategic Studies Institute
· Implications of a Changing NATO
· Sufism in Northern Nigeria: A Force for Counter-Radicalization?

TRAC Reports
· As Terrorism Prosecutions Decline, Extent of Threat Remains Unclear

UN Conference on Trade and Development
· Review of Maritime Transport 2009 htt

US Institute of Peace
· Fighting Corruption in Security Sector Reform
· Lebanon‘s Evolving Relationship with Syria
· On the Issues: Iran Sanctions
· On the Issues: Sinking of South Korea's Naval Vessel

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Analyzing the New UN Sanctions Proposal on Iran
· Confronting a Resilient al-Qaeda: The U.S. Strategic Response
· Lessons from the Iran Nuclear Developments
· The New British Government, the 'Special Relationship,' and the Middle East

White House
· First Lady Michelle Obama Announces Presidential Directive on Military Families

CSBA report on AirSea Battle

FYI - new report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Main report - AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept, by Jan van Tol with Mark Gunzinger, Andrew Krepinevich and Jim Thomas
Briefing slides
Press Release

Overview [from website]
The report provides a detailed assessment of how potent anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities will likely make traditional US power projection operations increasingly risky and costly in the future. Using the Western Pacific Theater of Operations (WPTO) as the most stressing potential case, it explores how the United States and its allies could employ a candidate AirSea Battle operational concept to maintain a stable military balance in the Western Pacific.

Friday's Miscellany 05-14-2010

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?: Assessing the Sustainability of Current Reductions in Opium Production in Afghanistan

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· It's Payback Time: The United States and Germany are Debating a Financial Institution Fee

American Security Project
· Ordinary Measures, Extraordinary Results: An Assessment of Foiled Plots Since 9/11

Atlantic Council
· A Realistic and Balanced US Electric Power Generation Portfolio

Brookings
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated May 12, 2010 and archives]

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Past as Prologue: Sustaining Canadian Capacity for Defence, Diplomacy and Development
· POLL - The Future of the Canadian Military After Afghanistan
· Reinventing CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Nuclear Industry and Strengthened Safeguards [Abolition Debate series part 8 of 8]
· Is a Regional Strategy Viable in Afghanistan?
· Russia’s Neglected Energy Reserves

Center for a New American Security
· Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan

Center for American Progress
· Governance in Afghanistan—Looking Ahead to What We Leave Behind

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
· Homeland Security Affairs (HSA) Journal, May 2010, v. 6, no. 2
o Homeland Security-Related Education and the Private Liberal Arts College
o Homeland Security: An Aristotelian Approach to Professional Development
o Partnership in Progress: A Model for Development of a Homeland Security Graduate Degree Program
o Development of an Outcomes-Based Undergraduate Curriculum in Homeland Security
o No Dark Corners: A Different Answer to Insider Threats
o Firefighters and Information Sharing: Smart Practice or Bad Idea?
o Letter to the Editor: Twelve Questions Answered

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· A 12-Step Recovery Plan for the US-Japan Alliance
· From Conflict to Pandemics
· Responding to Change on the Korean Peninsula
· Transnational Threats Update March-April 2010, v. 8, no. 2
· US Withdrawal and Iraqi Security Forces
· Violence in the North Caucasus

Centre for European Reform
· NATO, New Allies and Reassurance

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o H.R. 5136 [DoD appropriations - various]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· A DHS Intelligence Enterprise: Still Just a Vision or Reality?

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Reserve component programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Sudan: A Critical Moment for the CPA, Darfur and the Region

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs
· Iran Sanctions: Why Does the U.S. Government Do Business With Companies Doing Business in Iran?
· Stafford Act Reform: Sharper Tools for a Smarter Recovery

Department of Defense
· SPO-2010-002 Review of Intra-Theater Transportation Planning, Capabilities, and Execution for the Drawdown from Iraq

Department of State
· Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy and Environment between U.S. and China

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Annual Energy Outlook 2010

European Interagency Security Forum (EISF)
· Crisis Management of Critical Incidents

Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO)
· Net Generation Guide

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Can the United States Do Grand Strategy?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Navy's Basing Decision Process and DOD Oversight, GAO-10-482
· Defense Management: DOD Needs to Determine the Future of Its Horn of Africa Task Force, GAO-10-504 · Depot Maintenance: Improved Strategic Planning Needed to Ensure That Air Force Depots Can Meet Future Maintenance Requirements, GAO-10-526
· Firms Reported to Have Commercial Activity in the Iranian Energy Sector and U.S. Government Contracts, GAO-10-639R
· Foreign Assistance: U.S. Assistance to the West Bank and Gaza for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009, GAO-10-623R
· Iran Sanctions: Firms Reported to Have Commercial Activity in the Iranian Energy Sector and U.S. Government Contracts, GAO-10-721T [testimony]
· Maritime Security: Varied Actions Taken to Enhance Cruise Ship Security, but Some Concerns Remain, GAO-10-400
· Palestinian Authority: U.S. Assistance Is Training and Equipping Security Forces, but the Program Needs to Measure Progress and Faces Logistical Constraints, GAO-10-505

Heritage Foundation
· Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Does the Federal Government Share Responsibility?
· Managing Alliances in an Upside-Down World
· Massive Oil Spill Makes Case for Reversing Obama Coast Guard Cuts
· Performance Based Logistics: Making the Military More Efficient
· Ten Recommendations for the Next British Secretary of State of Defense
· Times Square Terror Plot: The Right Formula for Stopping Terrorism Has Not Changed

Human Rights Watch
· Costly and Unfair: Flaws in US Immigration Detention Policy
· “I Lost Everything”: Israel's Unlawful Destruction of Property during Operation Cast Lead
· Making Kampala Count: Advancing the Global Fight against Impunity at the ICC Review Conference

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
· Advantages of Including Munitions Items in the SCOMET List
· How India and the United Kingdom Can Cooperate on Nuclear and Radiological Security

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· NPT RevCon Main Committee draft reports
· Update: U.S. Extradition Request Denied in France for Alleged Iranian Military Parts Smuggler

Institute for Security Studies
· The Justice Sector Afterthought: Witness Protection in Africa
· Workshop Report Climate Change and Transboundary Water Resource Conflicts in Africa

Institute for the Study of War
· Fact Sheet: Ibrahim al-Jaafari

International Crisis Group
· A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· From Stimulus to Consolidation - Revenue and Expenditure Policies in Advanced and Emerging Economies
· Greece: Staff Report for Review under Stand-By Arrangement
· The Linkage between the Oil and Non-oil Sectors--A Panel VAR Approach
· Recoveries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan: Have Macroeconomic Policies Been Effective?

International Relations and Security Network
· Costs of War: Days of Oil and Fertilizer
· The Iranian Impasse
· Nuclear ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’
· A Parade of East-West Opportunities
· Unanswered Questions Five Years After Andijon

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 10, no. 10, May 13, 2010
o Kim Jong-Il's Secret Visit to Beijing
o Shifting Sands in the Gulf: The Iran Calculus in China-Saudi Arabia Relations
o China's "Charm Offensive" Loses Momentum in Southeast Asia [Part II]
o Missile Developments in China, India and Pakistan: A Burgeoning Missile Race
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 19, May 13, 2010
o Al-Qaeda Infiltration of the Western Sahara's Polisario Movement
o What Kind of Relations Does Egypt's Islamic Group Seek With Cairo's Al-Azhar?
o Breaking Yemen Apart: Al-Qaeda Exploits Social Divisions to Further its Agenda

National Defense University (NDU)
· Prism, June 2010, v. 1, no. 3
o Elevating Development Assistance by J. Brian Atwood
o From Deploying Individuals to Deploying Departments by Robert Polk and Merriam Mashatt
o Do Three Ds Make an F? The Limits of "Defense, Diplomacy, and Development" by Ethan B. Kapstein
o Weak States and Security Assistance by Derek S. Reveron
o Yemen: Primer and Prescriptions by Barbara K. Bodine
o Updating the Commander's Toolbox: New Tools for Operationalizing the Law of Armed Conflict by Laurie R. Blank and Amos N. Guiora
o Getting the Next War Right: Beyond Population-centric Warfare by Thomas A. Marks, Sebastian L.v. Gorka, and Robert Sharp
o Military Planning Systems and Stability Operations by William J. Gregor
o War in Complex Environments: The Technological Dimension by Martin van Creveld
o Mindanao: A Community-based Approach to Counterinsurgency by William A. Stuebner and Richard Hirsch
o Lessons from USDA in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by Bernard Carreau
o An Interview with Peter Pace

National Academies Press
· Review of the Department of Defense Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program Report [free download but registration required]
· Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army--Phase II: Letter Report [free download but registration required]

Naval War College
· Naval War College Review, Summer 2010, v. 63, no. 3
o The Next Geographical Pivot: The Russian Arctic in the Twenty-first Century - Caitlyn L. Antrim
o Chinese Missile Strategy and the U.S. Naval Presence in Japan - Toshi Yoshihara
o The Zumwalt-Class Destroyer: A Technology "Bridge" Shaping the Navy after Next - George V. Galdorisi and Scott C. Truver
o The Strategic Implications of Obscurants - Thomas J. Culora
o S-2: Options for the Pakistan Navy - Commander Muhammad Azam Khan, Pakistant Navy (Retired)
o Prospects for Indian and Pakistani Arms Control and Confidence-Building Measures - Feroz Hassan Khan
o Naval Vessel Traffic Services: Enhancing the Safety of Merchant Shipping in Maritime Security Operations - Lieutenant Dr. Ir. F. J. Sluiman and Commander Ph. H. de Koning, Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve
o Maritime Information-Sharing Strategy: A Realistic Approach for the American Continent and the Caribbean - Commander Alberto A. Soto, Chilean Navy
o Sir Quinlan: Nuclear Zealot for Moderation - Henry Sokolski

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
· Measuring and Monitoring Armed Violence: Goals, Targets and Indicators

Office of National Drug Control Policy
· 2010 National Drug Control Strategy

Optimization Online
· Multi-Criterion Robust and Stochastic Dominance-Constrained Models with Application to Budget Allocation in Homeland Security

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
· Space Debris

Rand
· Pakistan: Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
· Indian Naval Effectiveness for National Growth

Save the Children
· Assessment Report of IDPs Residing in District D.I. Khan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Small Wars Journal
· An Afghan Story
· Building Professional and Personal Relationships in Counterinsurgency Environments
· The Logic and Method of Collaborative Design
· Mission Assessment in Complex Operations: Canadian Lessons from Afghanistan
· Trust: Central to Success in Partnered Operations

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· China and Nuclear Arms Control: Current Positions and Future Policies

Strategic Studies Institute
· Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala: A Case Study in the Erosion of the State

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
· Human Security, Today and Tomorrow
· Investing in Human Security for a Future State
· Migration and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges

University of Central Florida
· Disaster Resilient Universities Survey Results

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
· First Quarterly Report on the Civilian Assistance Program in Pakistan

U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission
· Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The Afghan Peace Jirga: Ensuring that Women are at the Peace Table
· Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate
· Group Inequality and Conflict: Some Insights for Peacebuilding
· The International Donors’ Conference and Support for Haiti’s Future
· Is Nigeria a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism?
· The Link Between DDR and SSR in Conflict-Affected Countries
· The Road to Successful Transition in Afghanistan: From Here to the December 2010 Review
· Why Youth Join al-Qaeda

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Changing the Paradigm of U.S. Assistance to Egypt: Alternatives to the 'Endowment' Idea

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
· Context Matters: Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities

PRC Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation Capability Report

The latest from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is the Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation report.

Other Commission reports and hearing transcripts are available from the main Commission site.

Friday's Miscellany 05-07-2010

AEI Critical Threats
· Determining the Enemy: Examining a Potential Operational Link between Times Square Attack and Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
· Pakistan

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
· Nation-Building Is Not for All; The Politics of Education

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Speaking from the Evidence: Governance, Justice and Development [Policy notes Kabul Conference]

Army War College
· Brazil's National Defense Strategy – A Deeping of Civilian Control

Atlantic Council
· STRATCON 2010: An Alliance for a Global Century

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· A Natural Power: Challenges for Australia's Resources Diplomacy in Asia

Brookings
· Coming to America: The Rise of Al Qaeda Affiliate Groups
· IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for IDPs
· Is a World Without Nuclear Weapons Really Possible?
· Southwest Border Partners: U.S. - Mexico Cooperation on Security, Law Enforcement, and Commerce
· Strategies for Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Canada-US Relations at 150

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· From Violence to Moderation: Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya and al-Jihad
· The Role of the Public [Abolition Debate series part 7 of 8]
· War in Saada: From Local Insurrection to National Challenge

Center for a New American Security
· Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan

Center for American Progress
· The Iraq War Ledger: A Tabulation of the Human, Financial, and Strategic Costs

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· The U.S.-India Reprocessing Agreement and Its Implications

Center for Security Policy
· The Oil Leak's Silver Lining?

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 73: Rising India: Challenges and Constraints

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· CSIS-EKEM Policy Report Number Two
· Responding to Change on the Korean Peninsula: Impediments to U.S.–South Korea–China Coordination

Center for the Study of Intelligence
· On Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence Analysis

Center for Terrorism Law
· Pace Law Review, 2010, v. 30, no. 2, p. 340-363
o Efficacy of the Obama Policies to Combat Al-Qa’eda, the Taliban, and Associated Forces – the First Year by Jeffrey F. Addicott

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
· The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 2010, v. 8, no. 1,
o On Initiative Groups and Presidential Elections: Shifting State-Society Relations in Uzbekistan
o The Afghan Issue in the Politics of Eurasian Great Powers: Russia, China, India and Iran
o Reassessing a “New Great Game” between India and China in Central Asia
o The Fedayeen of the Reich: Muslims, Islam and Collaborationism During World War II
o From a Junken City to a Showcase City: The Formation and Development of the City of Shihezi in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China
o Sustaining the Dragon, Dodging the Eagle and Barring the Bear? Assessing the Role and Importance of Central Asia in Chinese National Strategy
o Energy Security Strategy Towards the Caspian Sea Region
o Great Power Politics: India’s Absence from Ideological Energy Diplomacy in Central Asia
o The Petroleum Legal Framework of Iran: History, Trends and the Way Ahead
o Re-thinking Europe’s Gas Supplies After the 2009 Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
· Strategic Warning and the Role of Intelligence: Lessons Learned From The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Centre for European Reform
· Should the Nabucco Pipeline Project be Shelved?

Chatham House
· Revolution in Kyrgyzstan - Again

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Another Crossroads? Professional Military Education Two Decades After the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel
· Hearings
o Developments in security and stability in Afghanistan [May 5, 2010]

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
· Deepwater Horizon Rig Oil Spill

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· The Future of U.S. International Nuclear Cooperation

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation
· America Wins When America COMPETES: Building a High-Tech Workforce

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· The Meaning of Marjah
· Sudan: A Critical Moment for the CPA, Darfur and the Region

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Work-Life Programs: Attracting, Retaining and Empowering the Federal Workforce
· Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· US Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis and Recession

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists
· The Risk of Greek Contagion

Department of Defense (DOD)
· DoD Instruction 1340.09, Hostile Fire Pay and Imminent Danger Pay, April 20, 2010

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-056 U.S. European Command Civilian Staffing Process

Department of Energy (DOE)
· Declassification of Certain Characteristics of the United States Nuclear Weapon Stockpile

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
· OIG-10-77 - Information Technology Management Letter for the United States Coast Guard Component of the FY 2009 DHS Integrated Audit
· OIG-10-80 - The Responsibilities of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
· OIG-10-81 - NPSC Preparedness for Large-Scale Disasters

Department of Justice
· Statistics on Unsealed International Terrorism and Terrorism-Related Convictions

Department of State
· Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] 1969-1976, Volume XIX, Part 1, Korea, 1969-1972

Department of the Treasury
· Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2009

Federal Communication Commission (FCC)
· National Broadband Plan

Federal Financial Institutes Examination Council
· FFIEC BSA/AML Examination Manual

Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee (Dept of Justice)
· Fire Service Integration for Fusion Centers: An Appendix to the Baseline Capabilities for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Afghanistan's Security Environment, GAO-10-613R
· Defense Acquisitions: Strong Leadership Is Key to Planning and Executing Stable Weapon Programs, GAO-10-522
· Secure Border Initiative: DHS Has Faced Challenges Deploying Technology and Fencing Along the Southwest Border, GAO-10-651T [testimony]
· Terrorist Watchlist Screening: FBI Has Enhanced Its Use of Information from Firearm and Explosives Background Checks to Support Counterterrorism Efforts, GAO-10-703T [testimony]
· Warfighter Support: Improvements to DOD's Urgent Needs Processes Would Enhance Oversight and Expedite Efforts to Meet Critical Warfighter Needs, GAO-10-460

Heritage Foundation
· 30 Terrorist Plots Foiled: How the System Worked
· An Independent Assessment of New START Treaty
· Defending Freedom Is a Choice
· Five Reasons Not to Support a Bailout of Greece
· Gulf Oil Spill: Washington’s Response Should Not Preclude Future Exploration
· Times Square Terror Plot: The Right Formula for Stopping Terrorism Has Not Changed
· Yo-Ho-Ho and a Battle of … Mao Tai?

Human Rights Watch
· Costly and Unfair: Flaws in US Immigration Detention Policy
· Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture
· A Media Minefield: Increased Threats to Freedom of Expression in Uganda
· Turning Critics into Criminals: The Human Rights Consequences of Criminal Defamation Law in Indonesia

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
· Anti-Naxal Operations: Employment of Armed Forces
· Humanitarian Diplomacy & Failed States: Case Study of the WFP Operations in Somalia

Institute for the Study of War
· De-Ba’athification Commission Disqualifications: Critical Vote Thresholds for the Iraqiyyah List
· Fact Sheet: Key Terrorist Groups in Pakistan

International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)
· Operation Moshtarak: Lessons Learned
· Nicaragua: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Crisis Group
· Cote d’Ivoire: Securing the Electoral Process
· Philippines: Pre-election Tensions in Central Mindanao
· Sudan: Regional Perspectives on the Prospect of Southern Independence

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability: Automatic Stabilizers Work, Always and Everywhere
· Managing the Exit: Lessons from Japan's Reversal of Unconventional Monetary Policy

International Relations and Security Network
· China, Pakistan Boost Nuclear Ties
· Chaos and Crisis in Nepal
· Costs of War: NPT Enmity
· Militarily Defining Post-Soviet Space

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
· COIN Common Sense: An Afghan Perspective, April 2010
o Partnering: What You Need to Know to Stay on Track
o Get to Know...Afghan Culture
o An Afghan Perspective
o 10 Partnering Principles You Need to Consider When Working with ANSF
o Ran, Respect & Partnering
o Afghan National Army Ranks
o Afghan National Police Ranks

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, May 6, 2010, v. 8, no. 18
o Rashid Rauf and the New York City Subway Bombing Plot
o The Succession Question: The Islamic State of Iraq Searches for New Leaders
o Pakistan's Ongoing Azm-e-Nau-3 Military Exercises Define Strategic Priorities

National Academies Press
· National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces: Letter Report [free download but registration required]

National Security Archive
· Cracking Open the Soviet Biological Weapons System, 1990
· Former Guatemalan Soldier Arrested for Alleged Role in Dos Erres Massacre

RAND
· Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon
· Would-be Warriors: Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States Since September 11, 2001

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
· The British Defence and Security Election Survey

Security & Defence Agenda
· The New Global Security Landscape: 10 Recommendations from the 2010 Security Jam

Small Wars Journal
· Design and the Prospects of a US Military Renaissance
· The Future of Terrorism: Mass Hostage Taking in Russia and Mumbai

START - National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
· Background Report: Terrorist Attacks in New York City

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
· Decisionmaking In Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: The Strategic Shift of 2007
· Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy for Success: Employing Talent

United States Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
· Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook

U.S. Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
· ANA Garrison at Gamberi Appears Well Built Overall but Some Construction Issues Need to Be Addressed
· ANA Garrison at Kunduz Does Not Meet All Quality and Oversight Requirements; Serious Soil Issues Need to Be Addressed
· SIGAR Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, April 2010

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The International Donors’ Conference and Support for Haiti’s Future
· Is Nigeria a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism?
· The Link Between DDR and SSR in Conflict-Affected Countries
· Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones as a New Deterrent?
· Why Youth Join al-Qaeda

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Iran Gets Negative Reviews in Iraq, Even from Shiites
· It's Not the Scuds, It's Support for the Resistance
· Proximity Talks: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

New PME report

The House Armed Service Oversight and Investigation committee has released a new report yesterday on the Professional Military Education (PME) system.

"Another Crossroads? Professional Military Education Two Decades After the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel"

According to their press release, This report was the result of a year-long assessment of the Professional Military Education (PME) system and is the "first comprehensive congressional review of the PME system since the Skelton Panel's groundbreaking review in 1989."

Friday's Miscellany 04-30-2010

Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project
· The Democratic Republic of Congo: Military Justice and Human Rights - An Urgent Need to Complete Reforms

Air Force Education and Training Command
· Active Shooter: Tri-fold Brochure for Response

Akamai
· State of the Internet 2009

American Security Project
· Are We Winning? Mid-Year Update New Indications of Progress and Lingering Concerns in the Fight against al Qaeda

Amnesty International
· Iraq Civilians Under Fire

Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL)
· An Analysis of U.S. Army Fratricide Incidents during the Global War on Terror (11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008) USAARL report number 2010-4

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· China’s Maritime Strategic Agenda

Business Executives for National Security (BENS)
· Business Leaders in Action Results in America

Brookings Institute
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated April 29, 2010 and archives]
· Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated April 27, 2010 and archives]
· Russia-U.S. Relations and Russia’s Vision for International Affairs
· Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Toward Sustainable Development for the Next Generation

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Towards a Coherent Reserve Strategy for the Canadian Forces

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· Afghanistan: A View from Moscow
· Pakistan Deal Signals China's Growing Nuclear Assertiveness

CATO Institute
· The Case for Auditing the Fed is Obvious
· The State of Liberal Democracy in Africa: Resurgence or Retreat?

Center for a New American Security
· Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy

Center for American Progress
· The New Levant: Understanding Turkey’s Shifting Roles in the Eastern Mediterranean
· Oil Spills by the Numbers: The Devastating Consequences of Exxon Valdez and BP Gulf

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
· The Defense Monitor, Volume XXXVIV – Jan/Fed/Mar 2010

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 72 - UN Security Council Reform: A Gordian Knot?
· No. 71 - Cyberwar: Concept, Status Quo, and Limitations

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· The Logic and Limitations of the Nuclear Posture Review

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Agriculture, Food, and Poverty in Afghanistan
· An Arms Control Process for the Middle East
· Cultivating Global Food Security
· National Security and the Commercial Space Sector
· Shaping the War in Afghanistan: The Situation in the Spring of 2010
· US Strategic Interests in the Arctic

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Approaches to Fostering Productivity Growth in Brazil, China and India
· A Plan to Stabilize Afghanistan

Chatham House
· Operationalizing the Comprehensive Approach

Competitive Enterprise Institute
· The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Security and Stability in Pakistan: Developments in U.S. Policy and Funding. [April 29, 2010]
o Air and Mobility Programs [April 28, 2010]
o Closing the Gap: Addressing Critical Rotary Wing Shortfalls for U.S. Special Operations Forces in Fiscal Year 2011 and Beyond [April 27, 2010]
o Simplifying Defense Travel: Improving the Defense Travel System for the User [April 27, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 Army Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard Training and Operations [April 27, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· A Relic of the Cold War: Is it Time to Repeal Jackson-Vanik for Russia?

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Laying the Framework for the Task Ahead: An Examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
· FEMA’s FY 2011 Priorities and Beyond: Aligning Budget, Mission, and Vision

Congress. Senate. Armed Service Committee
· Military Compensation and Benefits, Including Special and Incentive Pays, in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· The Historical and Modern Context for U.S.- Russian Arms Control

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee
· Developing Federal Employees and Supervisors: Mentoring, Internships, and Training in the Federal Government
· Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: The Role of Investment Banks

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Evaluating Military Compensation
· Life-Cycle Costs of Selected Navy Ships

Department of the Army
· 2010 Army Modernization Strategy (AMS)

Department of Defense
· 2010 edition of the Manual for Military Commissions (M.M.C.)
· "Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan" also incorporated in this report is the "United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces"

Department of Defense. Defense Health Board
· Achieving World Class: An Independent Review of the Design Plans for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-055 Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor Contract Supporting Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, April 29, 2010

Department of Homeland Security
· OIG-10-75 - Evaluation of Newly Deployed and Enhanced Technology and Practices at the Passenger Screening Checkpoint (Unclassified Summary)
· Nonimmigrant Admissions to the United States: 2009

Department of State
· New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and Protocol
· Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Europol
· TE-SAT 2010 EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, April 2010
o Should Sector Policing Be in Your Organization’s Future?
o Futures Orientation in Police Decision-Making Practices
o Confessions and the Constitution

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· China’s “Peaceful Rise,” “Harmonious” Foreign Relations, and Legal Confrontation—and Lessons from the Sino-Japanese Dispute over the East China Sea
· How the United States Lost the Naval War of 2015
· How the U.S. and Mexico Can Take Back the Border— Together
· Ten Things Every American Student Should Know About Our Army in World War II

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Anti-Money Laundering: Better Communication Could Enhance the Support FinCEN Provides to Law Enforcement, GAO-10-622T [testimony]
· Bank Secrecy Act: FinCEN Needs to Further Develop Its Form Revision Process for Suspicious Activity Reports, GAO-10-609T [testimony]
· Coast Guard: Civil Rights Directorate's Action Plans to Improve Its Operations Could Be Strengthened by Implementing Several Aspects of Project Planning and Implementation Practices, GAO-10-571T [testimony]
· Defense Infrastructure: Department of Defense Renewable Energy Initiatives, GAO-10-681R
· Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Determine and Use the Most Economical Building Materials and Methods When Acquiring New Permanent Facilities, GAO-10-436
· Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Improve Implementation of the Army Logistics Modernization Program, GAO-10-461
· Defense Supplier Base: DOD Should Leverage Ongoing Initiatives in Developing Its Program to Mitigate Risk of Counterfeit Parts, GAO-10-389
· Depot Maintenance: Sustainment Strategy for Harrier Aircraft Could Be Enhanced with Additional Metrics, GAO-10-618R
· Force Structure: Assessment of Army Progress in Modular Restructuring, Prepositioned Equipment, and Equipment Reset GAO-10-507R
· Homeland Defense: DOD Can Enhance Efforts to Identify Capabilities to Support Civil Authorities during Disasters, GAO-10-386
· Homeland Defense: DOD Needs to Take Actions to Enhance Interagency Coordination for Its Homeland Defense and Civil Support Missions, GAO-10-364
· Information Security: Opportunities Exist for the Federal Housing Finance Agency to Improve Controls, GAO-10-528
· Military Personnel: Comparisons between Military and Civilian Compensation Can be Useful, but Data Limitations Prevent Exact Comparisons, GAO-10-666T [testimony]
· Military Personnel: Status of Implementation of GAO's 2006 Recommendations on DOD's Domestic Violence Program GAO-10-577R
· Preliminary Observations on the Department of Defense's Counternarcotics Performance Measurement System, GAO-10-594R
· Quadrennial Defense Review: 2010 Report Addressed Many but Not All Required Items, GAO-10-575R
· U.S. Tsunami Preparedness: NOAA Has Expanded Its Tsunami Programs, but Improved Planning Could Enhance Effectiveness, GAO-10-490

Heritage Foundation
· 30 Terrorist Plots Foiled: How the System Worked
· How to Fix Homeland Security Critical-Infrastructure Protection Plans: A Guide for Congress
· An Independent Assessment of New START Treaty
· The Nuclear Posture Review: Adding More of an “Unfunded Mandate” for Defense?
· US Strategy Against Mexican Drug Cartels: Flawed and Uncertain

Human Rights Watch
· “I Want to Help My Own People”: State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis
· Slow Reform: Protection of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia and the Middle East
· Unjust and Unhealthy: HIV, TB, and Abuse in Zambian Prisons

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
· Answering Questions and Countering Arguments Against Ballistic Missile Defense: A Layman’s Guide

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Nuclear Politics in Iran
· Strategic Forum no. 255 - Africa's Irregular Security Threats: Challenges for U.S. Engagement

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
· Scientific Change and the Security Environment Biotechnology and Security to 2025

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Elements for a Plan of Action for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons by Group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the NPT
· Working Paper presented by the group of Non-Aligned States Parties to the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Institute for Security Studies
· Monograph No 169: Player and Referee, Conflicting Interests and the 2010 Fifa World Cup(TM)

Institute for the Study of War
· Iraqi Candidate Disqualification Update

International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP)
· Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence: Evidence from a Scientific Review

International Crisis Group
· Kyrgyzstan: A Hollow Regime Collapses
· LRA: A Regional Strategy Beyond Killing Kony
· Tipping Point? Palestinians and the Search for a New Strategy

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Chilean Banking System
· Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific -- April, 2010
· Balance Sheet Network Analysis of Too-Connected-to-Fail Risk in Global and Domestic Banking Systems

International Relations and Security Network
· Confrontations and Conspiracies in Thailand
· Costs of War: Top Secret Transparency
· Debating Jihad
· Pentagon Beyond US Anti-Corruption Laws?
· Sri Lanka's War: Time For Accountability
· What If Sanctions Don’t Work?

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 10, no. 9
o Chinese Leaders Revive Marxist Orthodoxy
o Is China Leading the Rebirth of Asia's Commercial Aircraft Industry?
o China’s “Charm Offensive” Loses Momentum in Southeast Asia [Part I]
o The U.S.-China Strategic Security Relationship and the Nuclear Posture Review Report
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 17
o Iranian Naval Exercises Display Advancements in IRGC Armed Capabilities
o HuJI Operations Expand Beyond the Indian Subcontinent
o The Hazara Division of Pakistan -- Growing Talibanization amidst Political Instability and Ethnic Tensions

Janson Communications
· Military Facebook Study

Lowry Institute
· Why Neoconservatism Still Matters

Marine Corps University
· Emerald Express Strategic Symposium, Afghanistan: The Way Ahead
o Transcript of "Afghanistan: The Way Ahead" Panel Discussion: Defining, Dealing and Defeating the Neo-Taliban and Their Message
o Transcript of "Afghanistan: The Way Ahead" Panel Discussion: Governing Afghanistan: District Councils, Development, Judicial Reform
o Transcript of "Afghanistan: The Way Ahead" Panel Discussion: Transition of Military Authority to the ANSF

Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
· Peoples under Threat 2010

National Democratic Institute (NDI)
· Final Report on the 2009 Lebanese Parliamentary Elections
· Imagining the Election: A Look at What Citizens Know and Expect of Sudan’s 2010 Vote

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
· Crude Oil Spills and Human Health

National Priorities Project (NPP)
· Federal Budget 101: Budget Charts [updated]

National Security Archive
· The Glasnost Tours: Breaking Down Soviet Military Secrecy
· Historic Dissident Journal Published Online: Original Russian-Language "Problems of Eastern Europe" Connected Soviet, Eastern and Western Publics

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Protection by Stealth: Using the Tax Law to Discriminate against Foreign Insurance Companies

Pew Internet & American Life Project
· Government Online: The Internet Gives Citizens New Paths to Government Services and Information

RAND
· Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness
· Enforcing Immigration Law at the State and Local Levels: A Public Policy Dilemma
· The Role of Incentive Pays in Military Compensation
· Strengths and Weaknesses of the Netherlands Armed Forces: A Strategic Survey

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· China and Nuclear Arms Control: Current Positions of Future Policies

Small Wars Journal
· Dispatch: The Battle for Kandahar
· Dispatch: Big Guns
· In Marja: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
· Measuring Defense Reform
· Some Considerations for Planning and Executing a Military-Political Engagement in Afghanistan
· Tribal Engagement at the Tactical Level
· Why Does Special Forces Train and Educate for Unconventional Warfare? Why is it Important? A Quick Response to Robert Haddick

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
· Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)
· Shades of CORDS in the Kush: The False Hope of "Unity of Effort" in American Counterinsurgency

TRADOC Culture Center
· Afghanistan Smart Book
· Pakistan Smart Book

United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC)
· Energy for a Sustainable Future: The Secretary-General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change's Summary Report and Recommendations

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
· United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Annual Report 2010

United States Environmental protection Agency (EPA)
· Understanding Oil Spills and Oil Spill Response

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The Health Sector and Gender-Based Violence in a Time of War
· Preventing Conflict in the "Stans"
· Turkey’s New Engagement in Iraq: Embracing Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Getting the Message Across: Better Broadcasting to Iran
· Substance beyond the Humor: Analyzing the Jones Address