Nuclear Posture Review released

The Nuclear Posture Review Report is now available. Related information is also available as is the QDR and BMDR

Friday's Miscellany 04-02-2010

AEI Critical Threats
· Operation Briefer: The Upcoming Battle for Mogadishu

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Keeping Confidence in Consensus: A Challenge for Political Leadership
· Not a Good Sign: Boeing/EADS and the U.S. Tanker Aircraft Dispute
· Obama and Europe
· START: A New Beginning for U.S.-Russian Relations?

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
· The Financial Management of Cyber Risk: An Implementation Framework for CFOs [free download but registration required]

Berghof Conflict Research
· Mediating Identity Conflicts Potential and Challenges of Engaging with Hamas

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· Nuclear Prevention and Red Lines: The Case of Iran
· Parsing the Political Consequences of the Moscow Bombings
· The Political Challenge of Yemen's Southern Movement

Center for American Progress
· The Copenhagen Accord at Three Months: 110 Countries Now Support a New Global Effort to Achieve Climate Safety [interactive map]
· Myth vs. Fact: Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Common Misconceptions Debunked

Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA)
· 2009 Biometrics Task Force Annual Report
· General Order redesignating BTF to BIMA

Brookings
· Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq
o Archives
· Judging the New START Treaty
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated March 25, 2010]
o Archives

Center for Security Policy
· False START
· The Perils of Peripheral Warfare: Iran & Venezuela Share the Tactics of Asymmetric War · Six Facts to Know About Guantanamo

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 71: Cyberwar: Concept, Status quo, and Limitations

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Governance of Financial Institutions
· Washington Quarterly, April 2010, v. 33, no. 2
o Afghanistan: Building the Missing Link in the Modern Silk Road
o The Other Side of the COIN: Perils of Premature Evacuation from Iraq
o Reforming the Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture: An Opportunity for U.S. Leadership
o Detecting and Disrupting Illicit Nuclear Trade after A.Q. Khan
o The Security Costs of Energy Independence

Center for the Study of Intelligence
· Studies in Intelligence, 2010, v. 54, no. 1
o The Post 9/11 Intelligence Community: Intelligence Reform, 2001–2009: Requiescat in Pace?
o The INT for Cross-National Academic Research: The Scope of FBIS and BBC Open Source Media Coverage, 1979–2008
o Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence o U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare, and the CIA, 1945-53
o Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
o Japanese Intelligence in World War II and Nihongun no Interijensu: Naze Joho ga Ikasarenai no ka [Japanese Military Intelligence: Why Is Intelligence Not Used?]

Chatham House
· Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· CTC Sentinel, v. 3, no. 3, March 2010
o Anwar al-`Awlaqi: Profile of a Jihadi Radicalizer
o The Taliban Arrest Wave in Pakistan: Reasserting Strategic Depth?
o Untangling the Punjabi Taliban Network
o Insight into a Suicide Bomber Training Camp in Waziristan
o Iran's Ambiguous Role in Afghanistan
o The Nexus Between Salafism and Jihadism in the Netherlands
o Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Courts
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Federal Climate Change Programs: Funding History and Policy Issues
· A Review of CBO's Activities in 2009 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act

Council on Foreign Relations
· UN Sanctions May Sting Iran's Guard
· Waiting on a Civilian Surge in Afghanistan

Department of Defense (DOD)
· Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan [October 2009]
· Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) Program Acquisition Cost Summary December 31, 2009
· United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghan National Security Forces

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-046 Contracting for Tactical Vehicle Field Maintenance at Joint Base Balad, Iraq
· D-2010-049 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Use of Award Fees on Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
· New Measures to Strengthen Aviation Security
· Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations From American Muslims

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office
· The Elements of Effective Redress Programs (DPIAC Report 2010-01
· Integrated Common Analytical Viewer Sensitive But Classified
· Recommendations on the Privacy Impact Assessment Process for Enterprise Services Bus Development (DPIAC Report 2010-02)

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-08-18 (Addendum) - (U) The Removal of a Canadian Citizen to Syria (Redacted)
· OIG-10-68 - TSA's Preparedness for Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Emergencies
· OIG-10-66 - Federal Emergency Management Agency's Capabilities to Oversee American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Grant Programs
· OIG-10-63 - The Performance of 287(g) Agreements

Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
· The Department of Justice's Efforts to Combat Identity Theft, Audit Report 10-21

Department of State
· 2008 Digest of United States Practice in International Law

Department of Veterans Affairs
· Final Draft Report of Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs March 29, 2010

European Union Institute for Security Studies
· The Case for Stronger EU Engagement with Post-Election Iraq
· The EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Powers, Decisions and Legitimacy
· Post-Election Iraq: From Sectarianism to Democratic Governance?

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2010
o Evidence-Based Decisions on Police Pursuits
o The Semisubmersible Smuggling Threat

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· The Foreign Policy of Abraham Lincoln

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Army Corps of Engineers: Budget Formulation Process Emphasizes Agencywide Priorities, but Transparency of Budget Presentation Could Be Improved, GAO-10-453
· Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs, GAO-10-388SP
· Defense Budget: Fourth Quarter Obligation Rates and Contract Obligations for Fiscal Years 2006-09, GAO-10-527R
· Defense Health Care: 2008 Access to Care Surveys Indicate Some Problems, but Beneficiary Satisfaction Is Similar to Other Health Plans, GAO-10-402
· Haiti Earthquake: GAO Reports on Past Disasters
· Military Personnel: Military and Civilian Pay Comparisons Present Challenges and Are One of Many Tools in Assessing Compensation, GAO-10-561R
· VA Health Care: VA Has Taken Steps to Make Services Available to Women Veterans, but Needs to Revise Key Policies and Improve Oversight Processes, GAO-10-287
· Warfighter Support: DOD Needs to Improve Its Planning for Using Contractors to Support Future Military Operations, GAO-10-472

Government of the Republic of Haiti
· Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti: Immediate Key Initiatives for the Future

Government of the United Kingdom
· UK Government Strategy on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

Heritage Foundation
· Do’s and Don’ts for Real Haiti Recovery
· Financial Regulation Reform: 16 Key Studies and Analyses
· Iran Economic Sanctions at the U.N. Security Council: The Incredible Shrinking Resolution
· Iran's Nuclear Program: What Is Known and Unknown
· Is There Still a Need for War Time Mobilization? China Thinks So
· The START Follow-on Treaty: Questions the Senate Needs to Ask

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Defected Iranian Nuclear Scientist Reportedly Worked Across from Secret Nuclear Weapons R&D Facility
· Khan’s Bomb Offer to Saddam’s Iraq: Document Showing Iraq’s Interest in Nuclear Weapon Design
· A Selection of Internal Bikar Metal Asia Invoices, Delivery Notices, and Facsimiles

Institute for the Study of War
· Best Practices in Counterinsurgency - Operation Seventh Veil
· Jeffrey Dressler on President Obama's Visit to Afghanistan (Al Jazeera English)

International Crisis Group
· Haiti: Stabilisation and Reconstruction after the Quake
· Rigged Elections in Darfur and the Consequences of a Probable NCP Victory in Sudan

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Recessions Associated with Financial Crises

International Relations and Security Network
· Climate of Conflict in Arctic
· Eliminating Terrorists, Not Terror
· Hidden Money, Covert Operations
· Moscow Accuses West of 'Narco-Aggression'
· Nigeria Navigates Turbulent Times
· US Military Aid for Allies

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
· ISAF Commander's Counterinsurgency Guidance

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 10, no. 7, April 1, 2010
o China’s Ecological Woes: Drought and Water Wars?
o Rajin-Sonbong: A Strategic Choice for China in Its Relations with Pyongyang
o Google and China’s Changing Economic Paradigm
o Will China’s Dream turn into America’s Nightmare?
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 13, 2010, April 2, 2010
o Pakistani Military Launching Counter-Insurgency Operation in Orakzai Agency
o The Gorran Movement -- A Change in the Iraqi Kurdish Political Landscape
o Political Theater or Counterterrorism? Assessing Iran's Capture of Jundullah Leader Abdelmalek Rigi

MessageLabs
· MessageLabs Intelligence Monthly, March 2010
o The Nature of Cyber Espionage; Most Malicious File Types Identified and Encrypted Spam from Rustock

National Academies Press
· Field Evaluation in the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Context: Workshop Summary [free download but registration required]
· Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (2010) [free download but registration required]
· Regionalizing Emergency Care: Workshop Summary [free download but registration required]

National Security Archive
· Bordaberry Condemned for 1973 Coup

Office of Immigration Statistics
· The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks and Overseas Travel to the United States: Initial Impacts and Longer-Run Recovery

Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
· Grants 101

Office of the Director of National Intelligence
· Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, Covering 1 January to 31 December 2009

Pak Institute for Peace Studies
· Pakistan Security Reports
· South Asia Conflict Reports
· Tribal Region Conflict Reports

Palm Center
· Encouraging Candid Communications From Service Members While Mitigating Risk of Separation Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Economic Crime and Punishment in North Korea
· The Sustainability of China's Recovery from the Global Recession

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Ukraine Says 'No' to NATO

Pew Internet & American Life Project
· The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Broad Public Support For Legalizing Medical Marijuana

Rand
· Implications of Aggregated DoD Information Systems for Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation
· Security Cooperation Organizations in the Country Team: Options for Success

Small Wars Journal
· Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s Citations of the Qur’an: A Descriptive Study of Selected Works · Fixing Intelligence… Again
· Iraq: As Good as it Gets
· The Spaces in Between: Operating on the Afghan Border (or Not)
· The “Tactical” Leaders of Tomorrow

Strategic Studies Institute
· Teaching Strategy: Challenge and Response
· Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy for Success: Developing Talent

Transnational Institute
· ‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’
· Moving Targets: Notes on Social Movements
· Why Fighting Corruption Is Not Enough

UK Department of Energy & Climate Change
· Global Threat Reduction Programme: Seventh Annual Progress Report 2009

UK Parliament House of Lords
· European Union Committee - Seventh Report: Stars and Dragons: The EU and China

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· Afghanistan Cannabis Survey 2009

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Can Economic Reform Open a Peaceful Path to Ending Burma’s Isolation?
· Media and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
· The Role of Development Aid in the Afghanistan Campaign
· Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Beirut Spring: The Hariri Tribunal Goes Hunting for Hizballah
· Gaza Border Tensions: A Drift toward War?

White House
· Surface Transportation Security Priority Assessment

Friday's Miscellany 03-26-2010

Air University
• Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2010, v. 24, no. 1
o The United States Air Force Expeditionary Center: Airpower from the Ground Up
o The Combined Air Power Transition Force: Building Airpower for Afghanistan
o China’s Perspective on Nuclear Deterrence
o Global Dynamic Operations: Allocation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft among Combatant Commands
o Cyber This, Cyber That . . . So What?
o Improving Cost-Effectiveness in the Department of Defense
o Achieving a Cost-Effective Balance in the Department of Defense: Concurrent and Proportional Recapitalization of the Air National Guard
o A Cyber Proving Ground: The Search for Cyber Genius
o The Resurgence of Russian Interests in Central Asia
o P-51 Escorts: Legend or Myth?

Army Office of Business Transformation
• 2010 Army Report to Congress on Business Transformation

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Strait Thinking: China-Taiwan Relations Under Ma Ying-Jeou

Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated March 22, 2010]
o Archive
• Broken Politics
• Comments on FEMA's National Disaster Recovery Framework
• Natural Disasters, Conflict, and Human Rights: Tracing the Connections
• Pakistan’s War of Choice
• Presumed Innocent? Representing Guantánamo Detainees

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment
• POLL - The Future of the Canadian Military in Afghanistan
• Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO's New Strategic Concept

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
• The Political Challenge of Yemen’s Southern Movement
• Key events in South Yemen’s history
o Key names and organizations
o Map
• Sustaining Social Safety Nets: Critical for Economic Recovery

CATO Institute
• Appreciate This: Chinese Currency Rise Will Have a Negligible Effect on the Trade Deficit
• Nuclear Proliferation Update, March 2010
o Why China and Russia balk at sanctions against North Korea and Iran
o Nuclear weapons spending and the future of the arsenal

Center for American Progress
• The Costs of Mass Deportation: Impractical, Expensive, and Ineffective
• Implementing the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the U.S. Armed Forces
• Progress in Pakistan: A National Security Briefing Memo
• What Is Non-Defense Discretionary Spending?: An Interactive Look at the Federal Budget

Center for Global Development
• The U.S. Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank’s Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s

Center for Non-Proliferation Studies (CNS)
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Resources [great website with regularly updated information]

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Electrical Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack
• From the Ferghana Valley to South Waziristan: The Evolving Threat of Central Asian Jihadists
• Options in Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Iraq's New Reality
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 1 - The Impact of Conflict on Minorities, Refugees, and the Internally Displaced
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 2 - Ensuring Security and Setting The National Security Agenda
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 3 - The Politics of Governance and Federalism
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 4 - Finding its Role in the Middle East

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Department of Energy Atomic Energy Defense Activities. [March 25, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from the U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea. [March 25, 2010]
o Department of the Navy and Air Force Combat Aviation Programs. [March 24, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Department of Defense’s Science and Technology Programs. [March 23, 2010]
o Interagency Coordination of Grants and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Progress, Obstacles, and Plans. [March 23, 2010]
o Military Associations’ Legislative Priorities. [March 23, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa

Congress. House. Homeland Security Affairs Committee
• Visa Overstays: Can They be Eliminated?

Congress. Senate. Armed Service Committee
• Military Health System Programs, Policies, and Initiatives in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program.
• U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Strategic Command, and U.S. Forces Korea in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs
• Removing the Shroud of Secrecy: Making Government More Transparent and Accountable

Congress. Senate. Veteran's Affairs
• VA's Plan for Ending Homelessness among Veterans

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2011
• Direct Spending and Defense Programs (Testimony)
• Federal Climate Change Programs: Funding History and Policy Issues

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Holding Pakistan: The Second Phase of Pakistan's Counterinsurgency Operations
• Pakistan's Shrewd Shift in Dialogue
• The Strategic Arms Treaty's Promise

Department of Defense (DOD)
• Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 1332.14 Enlisted Administrative Separations 8. Homosexual Conduct
• Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 1332.30 Separation of Regular and Reserve Commissioned Officers Homosexual Conduct
• Summary of Changes Revisions to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-047 Repair and Maintenance Contracts for Aircraft Supporting Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait

East-West Center
• Political Attitudes under Repression: Evidence from North Korean Refugees

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Columbia
• Country Analysis Brief: Venezuela

G8 Research Group
• 2009 L’Aquila G8 Summit Interim Compliance Report: 11 July 2009 to 22 February 2010

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Bureau of the Public Debt: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-10-517R
• Defense Acquisitions: DOD Could Achieve Greater Commonality and Efficiencies among Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems, GAO-10-508T [testimony]
• Energy Star Program: Covert Testing Shows the Energy Star Program Certification Process Is Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse, GAO-10-470
• Federal User Fees: Fee Design Characteristics and Trade-Offs Illustrated by USCIS's Immigration and Naturalization Fees, GAO-10-560T [testimony]
• Information Security: Concerted Response Needed to Resolve Persistent Weaknesses, GAO-10-536T [Testimony]
• Iraq and Afghanistan: Agencies Face Challenges in Tracking Contracts, Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Associated, GAO-10-509T [Testimony]
• Joint Strike Fighter: Significant Challenges and Decisions Ahead, GAO-10-478T [Testimony]
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Comprehensive Planning and a Results-Oriented Training Strategy Are Needed to Support Growing Inventories, GAO-10-331

Heritage Foundation
• How the EU’s Lisbon Treaty Affects US National Security
• Now is the Time to Seek Ratification of the US – Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty
• Politics of Well-Known Japanese “Secrets” Risk American Nuclear Umbrella
• Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications Review: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
• Time for an EMP Recognition Day
• Time to Stop the Rush for “Amnesty” Immigration Reform

Human Rights Watch
• A Larger Prison: Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia
• Mob Justice in Burundi: Official Complicity and Impunity
• “One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure”: Violations of Freedom of Expression and Association in Ehtiopia
• Trail of Death: LRA Atrocities in Northeastern Congo

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• The Leybold Charter: Putting Non-Proliferation Above Commercial Interests
• Pakistan Government Seeks to Investigate A.Q. Khan’s Activities
• Steam Emitted from Second Khushab Reactor Cooling Towers; Pakistan May Be Operating Second Reactor

Institute for the Study of War
• Fact Sheet: Iraq’s Preliminary Elections Results (25 MAR 2010 Update)

International Crisis Group
• Libya/Chad: Beyond Political Influence

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Germany: Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
• Germany: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
• Islamic Republic of Iran: Selected Issues Paper

International Relations and Security Network
• Blackwater-Linked Airline Serves Central Asia
• Costs of War: Too Late for Two States?
• Europe’s Gas: Careful What You Wish For
• Globalization in the Age of Terror
• Hizbollah: Governance Under Arms
• Intel Brief: Leverage Over Lukashenko
• Israel Mulls Going Nuclear, Again
• Prime Time for Pakistan's Military
• Reinforcing NATO’s Identity
• Rethinking Environmental (In)Security
• Shaky Ground in Guinea
• UN Council Targets Swiss Anti-Minaret Vote

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 12, March 26, 2010
o Northern Nigeria's Boko Haram Movement: Dead or Resurrected?
o Salafi-Jihadis in Mauritania at the Center of al-Qaeda's Strategy
o Kurdish-Arab Tensions and Irbil-Baghdad Relations

Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
• Chem-Bio Defense Quarterly Magazine CBMS Special Edition 2010
o The Chemical Biological Medical Systems: Countering Current and Emerging CBRN Threats
o Time-Temperature Indicators: Increasing Warfighting Confidence Decreasing Medical Logistics Load
o Partnering to Meet Warfighter Needs

Lexington Institute
• Countering The Asymmetric Threat From Sea Mines
• European Aircraft Subsidies: A Study Of Unfair Trade Practices

Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
• Organized Crime in Iraq: Strategic Surprise and Lessons for Future Contingencies

Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)
• Handbook of Emergency Management for State-Level Transportation Agencies

Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
• Data on Post-9/11 Terrorism in the United States

National Academies Press
• Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 8 [free download but registration required]
• Medical Surge Capacity: Workshop Summary [free download but registration required]

National Defense University Library
• Weapons of Mass Destruction Military Policy Awareness Link (MiPAL)

National Strategy Information Center
• Adapting America's Security Paradigm and Security Agenda

Naval War College
• Naval War College Review, Spring 2010, v.63, no. 2
o The Emerging Republic of Korea Navy: A Japanese Perspective
o Arctic Security Considerations and the U.S. Navy's Roadmap for the Arctic
o The U.S. Navy's Transition to Jets
o Pieces of Eight: An Appraisal of U.S. Counterpiracy Options in the Horn of Africa
o China's Oil Security Pipe Dream: The Reality, and Strategic Consequences, of Seaborne Imports
o Formal Mentoring in the U.S. Military: Research Evidence, Lingering Questions, and Recommendations
o Reflecting on Fuchida, or "A Tale of Three Whoppers" (essay)
o Israel: A Revolutionary Miracle in Palestine (review essay)

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
• The Politics of the Comprehensive Approach: The Military, Humanitarian and State-building Discourses in Afghanistan

Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
• Afghanistan’s Religious Landscape: Politicising the Sacred

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency
• Narcotics and Pakistan

RAND
• Diversity of Service Academy Entrants and Graduates
• A Funding Allocation Methodology for War Reserve Secondary Items
• Japanese Science and Technology Capacity: Expert Opinions and Recommendations

Real Instituto Elcano
• Radicalisation in the Diaspora: Why Muslims in the West Attack Their Host Countries

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
• NATO’s Tactical Nuclear Dilemma

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Asian Regionalism and US Policy: The Case for Creative Adaptation

Small Wars Journal
• Dispatch: Battle for Kandahar (Part I)
• Dispatch: Scent of Weakness
• Getting it Right: What the 34-day War Has to Teach the US Army
• Lessons From a Military Humanitarian in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Moving Artillery Forward: A Concept for the Fight in Afghanistan
• A Strategic Perspective on Taliban Warfare
• Warhog

Stimson Center
• Iraq’s New Reality: Finding its Role in the Middle East

Strategic Studies Institute
• Decisionmaking in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Removing Saddam Hussein by Force
• Synchronizing U.S. Government Efforts toward Collaborative Health Care Policymaking in Iraq

Union of Concerned Scientists
• Japan and America’s Nuclear Posture
• Concerning the Program of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Japan Defense Agency report, 1995)

UK Home Office
• Pursue Prevent Protect Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism

UK House of Commons, Defence
• The Contribution of ISTAR to Operations

U.K Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Seventeenth Report): Bringing Human Rights Back In

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Disrupting Iran's Illicit Activities
• Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power in the Middle East
• What is the Purpose of the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations List?

White House
• National Framework for Strategic Communication

Friday's Miscellany 03-19-2010

Air University Library (AUL)
· Information Operations [bibliography]
· Taiwan 2010 [bibliography]

Atlantic Council
· NATO’s Nuclear Policy in 2010

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Homeward Bound: Australia’s New Counter-Terrorism White Paper
· Strategic Insights 49 - Obama in His Own Words: On Leadership, Force, and Rebuilding US Primacy
· Trends in US Defence Spending: Implications for Australia

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
· Iran Update, no. 141, March 18, 2010

Brookings
· 2010 U.S. Islamic World Forum
· Assessing the National Broadband Plan
· Five Myths About Afghanistan
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated March 18, 2010] · Archives
· The Myth of Excluding Moderate Islamists in the Arab World
· Osiraq Redux: A Crisis Simulation of an Israeli Strike on the Iranian Nuclear Program
· A Primer on Self-Executing Rules
· The United States and Turkey: A View from the Obama Administration
· A Viewer's Guide to the Health Care Reform Bill Process

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Harper Government and Defence After Four Years

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· What Comes Next in Yemen? Al-Qaeda, the Tribes, and State-Building
o MAP

CATO Institute
· Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Worth the Fuss?

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· The US-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century

Center for American Progress
· From Deliberation to Dysfunction: It is Time for Procedural Reform in the U.S. Senate

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
· Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Defense Department PAS Positions [updated March 15, 2010]
· Economic Challenges in Post-Conflict Iraq
· Innovative Financing for Global Health: A Moment for Expanded U.S. Engagement?
· Middle East Notes and Comment: Dangerous Brinkmanship
· New Reports on International Cooperation in Counterterrorism
· Report of the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy

Chatham House
· Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System

Citizen and Immigration Services (CIS)
· Task Force on New Americans Report - Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-First Century

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Military Construction, Family Housing, Base Closure, Facilities Operation and Maintenance [March 18, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from the U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Northern Command [March 18, 2010]
o Force Protection Equipment Programs for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan [March 17, 2010]
o Military Personnel Legislative Priorities [March 17, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from the U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Transportation Command [March 17, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for the Military Services’ Operation and Maintenance Funding [March 16, 2010]
o Status of United States Strategic Forces [March 16, 2010]
o Legislative Priorities in Support of Families [March 15, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Relations Committee
· National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats: Diplomacy and International Programs
· Next Steps for Honduras
· Transatlantic Security in the 21st Century: Do New Threats Require New Approaches?
· U.S.-Japan Relations: Enduring Ties, Recent Developments

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· An Assessment of Checkpoint Security: Are Our Airports Keeping Passengers Safe
· Ensuring Strong FEMA Regional Offices: An Examination of Resources and Responsibilities
· Markup: H.R. 4842: the “Homeland Security Science and Technology Authorization Act of 2010
· SBInet: Does it Pass the Border Security Test?
· Working with Communities to Disrupt Terror Plots

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
· Rewarding Bad Actors: Why Do Poor Performing Contractors Continue to Get Government Business?
· U.S. Aid to Pakistan (Part II): Planning and Accountability

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Policy
· Strategic Forces Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program
· U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack: Intelligence Reform and Interagency Integration

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Economic Growth and Employment in the Short Term
· H.R. 4872, Reconciliation Act of 2010 [cost estimate]
· Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program--March 2010
· Responses to Questions About CBO's Preliminary Estimate of the Direct Spending and Revenue Effects of H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010

Council on Foreign Relations
· Debt Recovery: A Balancing Act
· Future of NATO
· Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities
· An Israeli Strike on Iran
· Renewed Conflict in Sudan: CPA Contingency Planning Memorandum No. 7
· Somalia: A New Approach
· Terrorism and Indo-Pakistani Escalation
· U.S. – Israel : Unsettled Relationship

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
· The Strategic Challenge of Chinese Organisations

Department of Defense
· Department of Defense FY 2009 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military
· DoD Directive (DODD) 5111.12E, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), March 18, 2010
· DoD Directive (DODD) 5505.13E, DoD Executive Agent (EA) for the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), March 1, 2010
· DoD Instruction (DODI) 6200.03, Public Health Emergency Management Within the Department of Defense, March 5, 2010

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-58 - DHS' Progress in Federal Incident Management Planning (Redacted)

East West Center
· The 2010 QDR and Asia: Messages for the Region

European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Education, Research and Gender: The Sources of Progress
· Has the EU Lost Ukraine?
· Why Europe Must Engage with Political Islam

Fels Institute of Government
· Making the Most of Social Media: 7 Lessons from Successful Cities

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Back to the Future: Pre-Modern Religious Policy in Post-Secular China
· Regarding the Controversy over “The World of Islam” Series

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Aviation Security: TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain, GAO-10-484T [testimony]
· Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Position Army's Ground Force Modernization Efforts for Success, GAO-10-406
· Environmental Contamination: Information on the Funding and Cleanup Status of Defense Sites, GAO-10-547T [testimony]
· Homeland Security: Ongoing Challenges Impact the Federal Protective Service's Ability to Protect Federal Facilities, GAO-10-506T [testimony]
· Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Overarching Guidance Is Needed to Advance Information Sharing, GAO-10-500T [testimony]
· Joint Strike Fighter: Additional Costs and Delays Risk Not Meeting Warfighter Requirements on Time, GAO-10-382
· Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Address Testing and Performance Limitations That Place Key Technology Program at Risk, GAO-10-158
· Secure Border Initiative: Testing and Problem Resolution Challenges Put Delivery of Technology Program at Risk, GAO-10-511T [testimony]
· Warfighter Support: Continued Actions Needed by DOD to Improve and Institutionalize Contractor Support in Contingency Operations, GAO-10-551T [testimony]

Government of Canada
· Canada's Engagement in Afghanistan, Report to Parliament, October 1 to December 31, 2009

Heritage Foundation
· Bangladesh: Checking Islamist Extremism in a Pivotal Democracy
· EU Foreign Policymaking Post-Lisbon: Confused and Contrived
· Interstate Competition and Choice in Health Insurance: The American Way
· Is India’s Economy Weakening?
· New North Korean Missile Unit Reflects Growing Missile Threat
· Time to Stop the Rush for “Amnesty” Immigration Reform

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· The Price of Getting Documents from AQ Khan: Carrying His Water

Institute for the Study of War
· Fact Sheet: Iraq’s Preliminary Elections Results

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
· Hamas and the Terrorist Threat from the Gaza Strip. The Main Findings of the Goldstone Report Versus the Factual Findings

International Crisis Group
· Madagascar: Ending the Crisis
· North Korea Under Tightening Sanctions

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Working Paper No. 10/62: The U.S. Federal Debt Outlook: Reading the Tea Leaves
· Working Paper No. 10/68: The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy in the Middle East and Central Asia: Is the Current Crisis Different?
· Working Paper No. 10/69: Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China
· Working Paper No. 10/70: Crisis Management and Resolution for a European Banking System

International Relations and Security Network
· Brussels Fiddles While Athens Strikes
· Challenging Education
· DynCorp Wins Afghan Contract Dispute
· Eritrea Recalibrates Somalia Policy
· Hidden Money, Covert Operations

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
· 2009 Annual Report
· Previous annual reports

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 10, no. 6, March 18, 2010
o Powerful Interests Stifle Reforms at National People's Congress
o Chinese Strategic Thinking: People’s War in the 21st Century
o Taiwan’s Navy: Still in Command of the Sea?
o Hobson's Choice: China's Second Worst Option on Iran
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 11, March 19, 2010
o Security Implications of Shi'a Politics in Post-Election Iraq
o Al-Shabaab Proscribed in Canada and the United Kingdom
o Al-Qaeda on Pakistan: Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's Morning and the Lamp

McKinsey & Company
· McKinsey on Government, Spring 2010, no. 5, Defense Special Issue
o Lessons from Around the World Benchmarking Performance in Defense
o Improving US Equipment Acquisition
o An Expert View on Defense Procurement
o Big Savings from Little Things: Non-equipment Procurement
o Stabilizing Iraq: A Conversation with Paul Brinkley
o Supply Chain Transformation Under Fire
o A Dynamic Strategy for Uncertain Times
o Without Taboos: France's New Defense Policy
o From R&D Investment to Fighting Power 25 Years Later

National Academies Press
· Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary [free download but registration is required]
· Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces [free download but registration is required]

National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)
· China’s Promotion of the Renewable Electric Power Equipment Industry: Hydro, Wind, Solar and Biomass

National Security Archive
· Sunshine and Shadows: The Clear Obama Message for Freedom of Information Meets Mixed Results

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
· Crime, Police Corruption and Development: Evidence from Victimization Data2, NUPI Working Paper: 772

NATO Defense College
· NATO: Peacekeeping in the Holy Land? A Feasibility Study

New America Foundation
· Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet
o Appendices

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
· Indonesia's Place Along the Spectrum of Global Religious Restriction

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Indonesia: The Obama Effect

Project 2049 Institute
· China's Nuclear Warhead Storage and Handling System

RAND
· Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional) Decision Support
· Chaos or Control?: What is the role of government in a borderless internet world? RAND Europe assesses the implications for policy makers
· Hidden in Plain Sight: What Cost-of-Crime Research Can Tell Us About Investing in Police
· Human Capital Management for the USAF Cyber Force
· The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War
· Questions of Balance: The Shifting Cross-Strait Balance and Implications for the US [Testimony]
· Reform or Radicalisation?

Simon Wiesenthal Center
· Facebook, Youtube+: Social Media Outlooks Impact Digital Terrorism and Hate - 2009 edition highlights

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· End-User Certificates: Improving Standards to Prevent Diversion
· Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2009

Small Wars Journal
· French Counterinsurgency in Algeria: Forgotten Lessons from a Misunderstood Conflict
· From Tal Afar to Marja: Applying Counterinsurgency to Local Conditions
· Man Dogs
· Mobilizing Identity in the Pashtun Tribal Belt
· The Tea Fallacy
· The Tribal Configuration Matrix

Strategic Studies Institute
· Lashkar-I-Taiba: The Fallacy of Subservient Proxies and the Future of Islamist Terrorism in India

Truman National Security Project
· Oil Addiction: Fueling Our Enemies

UK House of Commons Defence
· The Comprehensive Approach: The Point of War is Not Just to Win But to Make a Better Peace
· National Security and Resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report of Session 2009-10
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
· Human Development Report: Nigeria 2008 - 2009

University of Notre Dame Law School
· Unlawful Killing with Combat Drones: A Case Study of Pakistan, 2004-2009

U.S. Customs and Border Protection
· Frontline Magazine
· Summer 2009
o No Softening of CBP's Anti-Terrorism Focus
o Targeting the Threat of Corruption
o Heeding a Silent Cry
o Ready for Prime Time
o Securing History
· Winter 2010
o Securing the Border by a Nose: Training K-9 Teams in El Paso
o CBPs 24/7 Communications Center
o Outbound: A New Focus on the Southwest Border
o New "Green" Border Patrol Station, El Paso

U.S. Joint Forces Command
· Joint Operating Environment 2010

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Israel as the 'National Homeland of the Jewish People': Looking Back and Ahead
· Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power in the Middle East
· What is the Purpose of the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations List?

World Public Opinion.org
· Who Really has the Public's Support on Health Care?

Joint Operating Environment 2010 (JOE)

The U.S. Joint Forces Command released the Joint Operating Environment 2010 – a strategic framework that forecasts possible threats and opportunities that will challenge the future joint force. For more information see their press release.

Previous versions

JOE 2008
JOE 2007