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Friday's Miscellany 05-29-2026 & 06-05-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:12:52 +0000

38 North

Building a State-Controlled Knowledge Infrastructure: The Evolution of Distance Education in North Korea
Paving the Way for Hostile Coexistence? What North Korea’s Constitutional Revisions Mean for Inter-Korean Ties
Project Anthracite: Analyzing North Korean Patents and Academic Journals for Evidence of Chemical Weapons Potential
Quick Take: Progress Continues at New Yalu River Bridge Crossing

ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)

Iran War Updates [Including an Interactive Map]
Mozambique Conflict Monitor - Cabo Ligado [Including an Interactive Map]
Russia’s Shadow Fleet Presents a Sustained Hybrid War Threat at Sea
Ukraine Conflict Monitor [Including an Interactive Map]
The US’ Donroe Doctrine is Reshaping Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

AidData

Navigating the Minefield: De-Risking Strategies in Chinese Aid in Response to Security Threats

Air University Press

Air & Space Power, 2026, v. 36, no. 1

The Enduring Primacy of Air Superiority in Modern Warfare
The New Heterogenous Air Force Model
Reconceptualizing Strategic Attack : Implications for the Air Force
The Lords of the New Church : Zealots, Prophets, Heretics, and the Future of Airpower
An Emergence of Space, Cyberspace, and Special Operations Forces Synthesis: Innovating Through Cunning Domain Disruption
The Many Restraints of Commercial Space
Nuclear Strategic Parity in a Tripolar World
Back to the Future: Conventional-Nuclear Integration and Regional Deterrence

American Enterprise Institute

How to Reform Scholarly Journals /

Amnesty International

Anthropic

2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership

Arctic Institute

Arizona State University

Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Spring 2026, v. 4, no. 1

Proxy Battlespaces: A New Perspective on Ukraine’s Use of Special Operations Forces in Syria, Sudan, and Mali
The Institutional Battlefield: Why Irregular Warfare Must Contemplate Path Dependence
Proxy Warfare: The Missing Facet of Australian Defence Policy
Special Air Operations During the Great War: The Mindset and Legacy
Changing Partners’ Military Norms to Build Capacity by Juan Quiroz
Adaptive Analysis for Uncertain Environments: A Case for Inductive Thinking in Irregular War

Army T2COM G2

OE Watch: Foreign News & Perspectives of the Operational Environment, 2026, no. 3

China Advancing Stealth UAV Into Flight Testing Phase
China Escalates Cognitive Warfare and Disinformation Campaigns Targeting Taiwan
China and Brazil Establish Joint Space Laboratory to Deepen Space Cooperation
China and Somalia Strengthen Ties Through Mutual Condemnation of “Breakaway” Taiwan and Somaliland
Russian Naval Infantry Expands Capabilities for Force Projection in the Arctic
Russia Exploits High North Populations for Military Recruitment
Russia Deploys Shadow Fleet of Oil Tankers, Raising Tensions with NATO Members
Russia Delivers Liquified Natural Gas Carrier Despite Ongoing Sanctions
Russia Courts Madagascar Junta with Military Aid, Replicating Sahelian Playbook
Kim’s New Year’s Message Signals Continued North Korean Battlefield Support to Russia
Kim Jong Un’s Letter to Putin Highlights North Korean-Russian Ties While Revealing Limitations
Terrorist Attack in Kabul Kills Chinese National
Latin American Criminal Groups Expand Drone Use
Israel’s Somaliland Recognition Likely Deepens Saudi-Turkish-Egyptian Security Coordination in Horn of Africa
Syria Faces Military and Security Challenges One Year After Assad’s Fall
Kazakhstan Establishes Unit to Counter Drone Threats
Pakistan Transforms Its Military Command Structure

PLA Theater Army Attack on a U.S. Army Corps
PLA Theater Army Defense Against a U.S. Army Corps
Russia Firmly in Lead of Emerging Adversarial Cooperation on Arctic
Sociocultural Exploitation in Malaysia

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

China and AI-Military Integration: Perspectives, Opportunities, and Challenges

Atlantic Council

Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)

Defence’s Collins Class Submarines Life of Type Extension — Planning and Implementation

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Bloomsbury Collections

Learning for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World [open access book]

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

Envisioning Future Pathways for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Brookings

Bruegel

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cato Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS)

Hardwired Repression: Data Centers, Global Technology, and China’s Surveillance Infrastructure in the Uyghur Region

Center for International Policy

Arms Without Leverage: Rethinking US Security Assistance to South Asia

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

National Standard of the People’s Republic of China: Cybersecurity Technology – Basic Safety Requirements for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services [translation]

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Caucasus Analytical Digest

No. 147: Time, Gender, and Inequality in Georgia

Central Asia Analytical Digest

No. 1: Urban Development and Transformation in Central Asia

Moldovan Analytical Digest

No. 006: Relations Between Moldova and Ukraine

Russian Analytical Digest

No. 341: The Ambiguities of Indoctrination in Russian Universities and Schools

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

The Three-Body Problem: Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Center for Study of Intelligence (CSI)

Studies in Intelligence, June 2026, v. 70, no. 2

We Have Been Here Before: Joseph Becker’s Computer and the AI Question
The Quiet Cognitive Coup of Generative AI: Rewriting the Rules
Three Pillars of Identity Intelligence: A Brief History
The Enigma of Ernst Rudolf Fischer: Nazi Germany’s Oil Expert

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Europe Has Produced Tech Champions: Here is What They Can Teach Us

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House

Saving Global Economic Governance from the “Trump Shock”: Why Rules-supporting Countries Should Establish a “Third Pole” in the Global Economy, Without the U.S. and China

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Most Americans Disagree with Trump and the Republican Base on Immigration Policies

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, May 2026, v. 19, no. 5

Developments in the Sahel: An Interview with Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24; Senior Research Fellow, Soufan Center
A View from the CT Foxhole: Robert Kissane, Former Special Agent in Charge, FBI NY Counterterrorism Division and NY Joint Terrorism Task Force
Mohammad Baqer al-Saadi: Profiling an IRGC and Iraqi Militia Operative
Will Generative AI Fundamentally Change Terrorist Threats?
The Women Inside ISCAP: Governance, Coercion, and Insurgent Sustainability

Conflict Armament Research

Congress. House Select Committee on China

Research Security for America’s Future in Space: NASA’s Enforcement of the Wolf Amendment

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Report on the PRC’s Transnational Repression and Malign Influence in 2025

Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

The Pharma Choke Point: How to Reduce U.S. Dependence on Chinese Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Supply Chains

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Defense Priorities Foundation

Each Side Spins a Different Story About the U.S.-Iran Peace Talks—but Tehran May Have the Last Word

Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

DOWIG-2026-087 The DoW’s Unclaimed Funds
DOWIG-2026-086 Summary Report: Lessons Learned from DoW OIG Reports on Military Construction
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
Operation Southern Guard (OSG)
Operation Southern Spear (OSS)

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

OIG-26-08 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana
OIG-26-07 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of the ICE Washington Field Office Holding Facility in Chantilly, Virginia

Department of State Inspector General

Lead Inspector General for Operation Southern Guard | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2026 - March 31, 2026

Digi Americas

Securing Critical Infrastructure in Latin America: Policy, Risk, and Resilience

East-West Center

South Korea’s Trust-Building with North Korea: Failure and Outlook

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

China’s Maritime Hybrid Warfare: How Beijing Uses Lawfare and Civilian Entities to Amplify Military Power

European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

European Policy Centre (EPC)

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Regulatory Momentum or Global Disconnect?

Finland Ministry of Defence

Development and Resource Needs of National Defence in the 2030s: Parliamentary Working Group on Defence

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

What Do Companies Fear? The New Geography of Geopolitical Risk

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

Russia’s Nuclear Signaling in 2026 and Implications for European Security

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

An Existential Stress Test for Türkiye’s Political System

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Globsec

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Animal Transport: Congress Should Consider Modernizing the Law to Better Protect Livestock GAO-26-108123
Civilian Workforce: DOD Should Assess Lessons Learned to Better Understand Reduction Impacts GAO-26-108100
Commercial Aviation: Air Service to Small Communities Continues to Face Challenges GAO-26-109182
Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Assess Civilian Partnerships’ Contributions to Readiness GAO-26-107677
Electric Aircraft: FAA Is Evaluating Designs for Certification and Considering Long-Term Regulatory Approaches GAO-26-107816
Electronic Health Records: Better Goals and Measures Would Improve Interagency Cybersecurity Collaboration GAO-26-107673
Federal Law Enforcement: DHS Could Improve Data Collection and Assessment of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Programs GAO-26-107878
Military Health Care: Families Face Challenges Accessing Care for Special Needs, Defense Has Not Reviewed Coverage GAO-26-108086
Spectrum Management: DOD and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Should Improve External Collaboration GAO-26-107873
Veterans Affairs: Improved Oversight Could Strengthen Processes for Estimating Health Care Funding GAO-26-107950

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Henley Putnam University

Journal of Strategic Security, 2026, v. 19, no. 2

Spying the Lie: Insider Threat Prevention in National Security
Escalation by Algorithm, Restraint by Architecture: Pakistan’s Military AI Divergence
YouTube as a Tool for Digital Diplomacy and Strategic Security: A Comparative Analysis of Russia and Kazakhstan
Human-AI Teaming Under Fire: Lessons from Ukraine’s Human-in-the-Loop Combat AI Systems
The Role of Special Services in Providing National Information Security
Classified Information Management in Kosovo: Lessons from NATO, the European Union, and the Western Balkans
Public-Private Cooperation in European Cybersecurity
Analysis of Security Concerns in India-Central Asia Relations
Shadow Logistics: Military Vulnerability Through Civilian Dependence

Hoover Institution

Strategika, No. 105 Lessons Learned (So Far) About the Iran War

Seven Lessons of the Iran War
The Iran War is Prelude to the Fifth War
Lessons of the Iran War

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Science and International Security

Fast 16 Malware Aimed at Undermining Proliferant State Nuclear Weapons Programs, Iran was a Credible Target

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

May 28, 2026: Fano Disrupts Ethiopian Elections; IS Resurgence in Northern Somalia
June 4, 2026 Ethiopia Holds Elections; IS in Northwestern Nigeria

China & Taiwan Update

Gasoline Shortages in Occupied Ukraine Show the Synergy of Ukraine’s Long-Range and Mid-Range Strike Campaigns
How Iran Hopes to Control the Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not Just About Fees
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

Russian Occupation Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Ukraine’s Intermediate-Range Strike Campaign and New Mechanized Attacks Herald the Start of a New Phase of the War
Ukraine’s Strike Campaign Marks a New Phase of the War

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Irregular Warfare Center

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, May 2,9 v. 26, no. 11

Beijing’s Hukou Reform Is Not Welfare-Oriented
PRC Cognitive Warfare Targets Japan’s Security Normalization
Taiwan Weighs HIMARS for PRC Counterstrikes
The Chinese ‘Rules and Future’ of Global Trade

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

Marine Corps University Press

Aspects of Leadership: An Enlisted Primer on Leading Marines

Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)

Chinese Investment Rises to 7-Year High - Chinese FDI in Europe: 2025 Update

Middle East Institute (MEI)

The Impact of the Iran War on the Gulf’s Grand AI Plans

Mitchell Institute

MITRE

Leveraging SBOMs Throughout the Enterprise SDLC

National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Securing Tomorrow

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Assessing PRC Media Framing and Narratives in Arabic-Language Media Environments
Defence Strategic Communications, Spring 2026, v. 17

How the Term FIMI Took Shape: Told by Those Involved
From Declarations to Practice? Institutional Constraints on Europe– IP4 Cooperation against Foreign Information Manipulation
Global Reorientation: A Very Short Description of the State of World Affairs
The Rupture of the International Rule of Law and the Rise of Tech Sovereignty
When Disruption Is a Goal in Itself: Constructing Hybrid Threat Actors in Wargaming
What Does It Take to Release a Political Prisoner?
Witness
Tyranny’s Temptation
LEGO: How Should States Communicate in the Attention Economy?

Strategic Communications in Government: Putting Principles into Practice

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

China Maritime Report #54: Chairman Xi's Navy

Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108, no. 1

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Niskanen Center

Washington, D.C.'s Crime Decline and Its Lessons for American Policing

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

Rising to the Challenge: Emerging Leaders in Nuclear Security

Observer Research Foundation

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Hate Monitor, April 2026 [Infographic]

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

The Global Political Economy in Local Violence: Exploring the Role of Corporations, Trade and Loans in the Killings of Social Activists

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Policy Recommendations "Toward Improving the Effectiveness of Extended Deterrence in the Japan-U.S. Alliance": To Make the "Nuclear Umbrella" be Real

Small Arms Survey

New Methodology for Tracking Civilian Firearms Dynamics

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Fading Power? The EU’s Strategic Dilemmas in the South Caucasus

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Strauss Center

Swedish Defence Research Agency

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Swedish National China Centre

Taylor & Francis

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

Militant Extremist Mindset: A Comparative Study of Arab and Australian Youth [open access article]

Civil Wars

Militia Infiltration of the State: Loyalist Paramilitary Strategy in Northern Ireland [open access article]
Unanswered Prayers: Do the Ideas of Forgiveness and Justice Promote Pro-Peace Attitudes? [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Hamas is ISIS? Comparisons of Hamas to Islamic State and the Designation of ‘Terrorist’ Groups [open access article]
Israeli State Terrorism: Knowledge, Power and the “Public Secret” [open access article]
Open Letters by Academics on the Israel–Gaza Conflict: Pitfalls of Urgent Appeals [open access article]
Palestinian Resistance: Reflections on Violence and the Right to Resist [open access article]
Terrorism Discourse and Genocide: Foucault and Agamben on Palestine [open access article]
Uhud, Kairouan and the Battle of Ben Gardane: Situating Salafī-Jihādist Militancy in Context [open access article]

Defence Studies

Dual Use Innovation Systems – Building Industrial Resilience in An Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty [open access article]
From Demonstrated Agency to Structural Integration: Security-Trained Women and the Role of Assignment and Competence Registries in Crisis Preparedness and National Defense [open access article]
The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO): The Post-Communist versus Democratic Europe [open access article]
A Strategy for the Weak: The Role of Information Confrontation in Russia’s Grand Strategy [open access article]
Terrorist Groups, Advanced Armed Drones, and Nonstate Warfare [open access article]
Turning to Gender Analysis in Times of Upheaval: An Intervention Piece [open access article]

Defense & Security Analysis

Forecasting the Readiness of Drone Racing Technology for Wider Autonomous Use [open access article]

Ethnic and Racial Studies

How Integration Policies Relate to Perceptions of Discrimination and Feelings of Belonging Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants. A Multilevel Perspective [open access article]
Insurgent Bureaucrats in Local Government: The Fight for Immigrant Rights and Racial Equity [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Between Openness and Resilience: Rethinking Citizenship in Times of Polycrisis [open access article]
Boundaries of Citizenship: Federal Perspectives and Democratic Minimum Standards in the EU [open access article]
Broadening Through Blurring? Rethinking Citizenship Across the ‘Us’/‘Them’ Divide [open access article]
Climate Cosmopolitanism: Broadening and Deepening Citizenship in Response to the Climate Crisis [open access article]
Damaging Democratic Citizenship: The Ideology of Digital Empowerment [open access article]
Good Citizenship in an Unequal Society: The Value of Political Organizing [open access article]
Immigration and Social Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Deepening and Broadening Citizenship [open access article]

Geopolitics

The Beguiling Familiarity of Popular Geopolitical Imaginaries: Mission Impossible and Politics of Intelligence [open access article]
Bordering the Heterogeneity: Revisiting the Internal Borders in Early Modern Northeast China [open access article]
Climatising the Law of the Sea: Small Island Developing States and the ITLOS Advisory Opinion [open access article]

Global Change, Peace & Security

Multilateral Global Governance and Peace from the Perspectives of Agonistic and Confucian Relationality: China, BRICS, and the ASEAN Regional Forum [open access article]
Pleading for Peace: Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and the Press Releases of Ceasefire Monitors [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

An Archaeology of Risk: A Bibliometric Analysis of Risk Research [open access article]
Connecting Social Impacts and Social Capacities for Flood Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction [open access article]
To Fear or Not? The Impact of Internet Use on Chinese Public Safety Perception [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

The Evolution of China’s Ballistic Missile Defense [open access article]
Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone [open access article]
Minding the Commitment Gap: Alliance Reassurance and the Image of the Imperial Presidency [open access article]
Security Studies to Fear or Not? The Impact of Internet Use on Chinese Public Safety Perception [open access article]
Strategy in the New Missile Age [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Intelligence Penetration, Counterintelligence, and the Iran–Israel Covert Struggle [open access article]
The Invisible Front: Exploring the Dynamics of Afghan Resistance Movements in the Shadow of the Taliban’s Second Authoritarian Rule [open access article]
Visible Politics and Invisible Tactics: The Use of Uniforms in Asymmetric Conflicts [open access article]
The Water and the Fish: Counterinsurgency Models for Climate-Induced Violence [open access article]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia [open access article]
From Prevent to Protect and Prepare: The Manchester Arena Attack and Shifting Priorities in the United Kingdom’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) [open access article]
Jihad after the Fall of IS – Reframing the Apocalyptic Narrative [open access article]
Of Heroes and Mothers: Locating Gender in Ideological Narratives of Salafi-Jihadist and Extreme Right Propaganda [open access article]
Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Parliament House of Lords Library

Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and Society

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

Progress Without Compass: Rethinking Crime, Justice and Rights in an Algorithmic World

United States Studies Centre (USSC)

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process [Green Card]

Press Release

US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)

China's Codification and Escalation of the "Sinicization of Religion"

V-Dem Institute

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

White House

Wire Screen

How the PLA Continued Procuring Nvidia AI Chips After U.S. Export Controls [registration required to access]

Friday's Miscellany -5-15-2026 & 05-22-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:08:40 +0000

38 North

Air University Press

Leadership and the Changing Character of War: Medical Capabilities in a Future Conflict within the Indo-Pacific

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), April 2026, v. 33, no. 4

Distribution of Tobacco and Nicotine Indicators from the Periodic Health Assessment and Medical Diagnostic Codes Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2023
Head and Neck Cancer Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2010–2024
Incidence of Oropharyngeal Cancer Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2005–2024 S
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 1, Ending January 3, 2026

Army War College Press

Parameters, Summer 2026 no. 56, no. 2

The State of the US Army
Fighting for Intelligence in Large-Scale Combat Operations: The Role of the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion–Next
Geopolitical Chessboard: How Vietnam Shapes American-Chinese Competition
Key Themes in Sino-American History
Rethinking Power: E. H. Carr’s Enduring Lessons for Modern Strategists
How Is Going to War Like Buying a Car?: The Bargaining Model of War
A New Security Framework for NATO’s Eastern Flank
Turning Tactical Victories into Strategic Success: Counterinsurgency in the Irish Civil War, 1922–23
Closing the Gap Between Threat and Rival

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

Atlantic Council

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

Returns to Conflict Affected Societies: Lessons from Post-Yugoslavia

Brookings

Brown University Costs of War Project

Bruegel

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

The Defence Industrial Strategy, Sovereign Capabilities, and Defence

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center on Global Energy Policy

Centre for European Reform (CER)

China Shock 2.0: The Cost of Germany's Complacency

Centre for Independent Studies

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

Estimating the Effects on the UK of State Information, Influence, and Interference Threats Using Digital Disinformation, Distortion, and Deception

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Between War and Return: Scenarios for the Future of Ukraine and Its Refugees

College of Europe

Congress. House Select Committee on China

Research Security for America’s Future in Space: NASA’s Enforcement of the Wolf Amendment

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council on Geostrategy

Sustainment Under Strike and Sabotage: Contested Logistics in the Wider North

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Defense AI Observatory (DAIO)

Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

UFO files

Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

DOWIG-2026-085 May 15, 2026 Audit of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Management of Grants
Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR)

Department of State Office of Inspector General

Department of the Navy

Fiscal Year 2027 Shipbuilding Plan

Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

Kazakhstan Constitutional Reform 2026: Autocratic Institutionalisation or Personalization of Dictatorship?

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Cyber (Dis)armament in Practice: The EU’s Role in Governing Software Vulnerabilities in a Fragmented International Order

European Institute of the Mediterranean

Can Europe Make a Difference in the Middle East?

European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

Robots and Non-Participation: Evidence and Lessons from the US and Europe

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

COI Report - Pakistan: Country Focus

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

The Caribbean Under Pressure: What Role for Europe?

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Russia’s New Digital Authoritarianism: Challenges and Leverage for Europe

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Turning the Tide Together: Confronting the Pacific Methamphetamine Crisis

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

2026 Annual Report: Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap, and Fragmentation and Achieve an Additional One Hundred Billion Dollars or More in Future Financial Benefits GAO-26-108505
Air Force Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Depot Maintenance Delays and Staffing Challenges GAO-26-107890
Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Assess U.S. Competitiveness and Inform Policy Options GAO-26-107624
Border Security: Additional Information Could Inform Enforcement Decisions for Noncitizens Paroled at the Southwest Border GAO-26-107765
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Agencies Should Assess Risk of Ending Foreign Worker Program GAO-26-108239
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Cybersecurity Threats to the Water and Wastewater Sector GAO-26-109159
Disaster Assistance Scams: Education and Awareness are Key to Consumer Protection GAO-26-108280
Disaster Loan Program: SBA Should Ensure Consistent Outreach to Survivors GAO-26-108688
DOD Financial Management: Questions Associated with New Financial Audit Approach GAO-26-109115
DOD Real Property: Actions Needed to Better Ensure Efficient Leasing and Space Management in the Capital Region GAO-26-107818
Export-Import Bank: Improved External Stakeholder Engagement Could Enhance Fraud Risk Management GAO-26-108469
Facility Security: VA Should Fully Implement Federal Security Requirements and Improve Performance Reporting GAO-26-107952
Federal Research: Agencies Should Better Manage Anticipated Publishing Cost Increases Amid Shift to Public Access GAO-26-107738
Financial Management Systems: DHS’s Modernization Plans Should Fully Incorporate Key Practices GAO-26-107863
Hanford Cleanup: DOE’s Plans to Grout and Dispose of Millions of Gallons of Tank Waste GAO-26-108878
Hurricane Maria: Mortgage Performance in Puerto Rico GAO-26-108982
Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Shortages in Mission-Critical Positions Have Continued to Increase GAO-26-108674
Open GAO Recommendations: Financial Benefits Could Be Between $132 Billion and $251 Billion GAO-26-108932
Privacy and Cybersecurity: VA Has Made Progress Enhancing Security Controls for Protected Health Information GAO-26-108651
Recommendations for Congress: Action Can Cut Costs, Reduce Waste, and Improve Services GAO-26-108896
Service Members Rights: Intelligence Community Guidance Could Better Address Reemployment Protections GAO-26-108133
Suicide Prevention: DOD Should Improve Monitoring and Assessment of Training GAO-26-107804
Telecommunications: Selected Agencies Have Taken Steps to Address Risks of Equipment Linked to China GAO-26-107668
VA Medical Facility Security: Actions Needed to Address Longstanding Risks GAO-26-109020

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Building Europe’s Alternative Fuels Industry for Military Resilience

Human Rights Watch

IJ Infinity Group

Military Strategy Magazine, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 1

On Defense and Offense: Revisiting Clausewitz, Mao Zedong and Thucydides
Beyond Random Acts of Touching: Six Core Pillars on How to Think About Security Cooperation
Can Clausewitz’s “Center of Gravity” Survive the Digital Age?
The Trafalgar Imperative: Why the USAF Must Innovate or Stagnate
Extended Nuclear Deterrence Strategy
Military Leadership In the 18th Century: Lessons for Strategic Leadership, Strategy, and Statesmanship Today

India Navy

Indian Navy Maritime Security Strategy 2026 (INMSS-2026)

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

May 14, 2026: M23 Abandons Gains in Eastern DRC; Political Showdown in Somalia
May 21, 2026: US Nigeria Kill IS Leader; RSF Defections

China & Taiwan Update

May 15, 2026

Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

Russia’s Resettlement Strategy in Occupied Ukraine
Russian Occupation Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

The Coming Crisis in Russia’s Political Economy

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Peacekeeping Transitions during Crisis

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, May 15, v. 26, no. 10

A ‘New Beginning’ for Xi’s Assimilationist Agenda
Beijing Entrenches Asymmetric Closed-Door Strategy
PRC–Turkmenistan Gas Ties Hedge Hormuz Risk
PLA Reshapes Military Theory Development System for Future Warfare
Decade of Policy Support Drives Quantum Breakthroughs
New Law Engineers Unity
Blaming ‘Foreign Forces’ Backfires for Beijing
Beijing Reacts to Panama Setbacks
PRC Supplies Solar in the Caribbean

Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

Short Circuit: Lessons for Canada from Europe’s Tech Regulation

Marine Corps History Division

Withdrawal: U.S. Marines and the American Exit from Southeast Asia, 1969-1975

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Creating Inclusive Urban Economies for Migrants and Refugees

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

Why President Trump Ordered the Resumption of U.S. Nuclear Testing

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Observer Research Foundation

Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Secure World Foundation

Responsible Investment in the Space Sector: A Guide to Stewardship for Sustainable Value Creation

Soufan Center

Combating Youth Radicalization

Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Operationalizing Real-Time Monitoring of Clinical AI

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

The Missing Piece in Nordic–Baltic Security: Ukraine as a Natural Ally

Swedish National China Centre

A New Great Leap Forward? China’s Race for Tech Supremacy Despite Costs

Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

The Second Military Field Court: The Assad Detention System

Taylor & Francis

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Bridging the Gap: Gender Mainstreaming and Counterterrorism in Multilateral Institutions [open access article]
Childhood Radicalisation and the Law in the UK: Assessing a Decade of Family Court Involvement [open access article]
Gendercide and Terrorism Studies [open access article]
On Decolonial and Abolitionist Arguments Against the Strategic Uses of “Terrorism” [open access article]
Governing threats through ambiguity: the construction of the dangerous person in the German parliamentary discourse [open access article]
Radicalisation and the jurisprudence of suspicion: law’s pre-criminal turn and the collapse of evidentiary thresholds in the UK, France and Germany [open access article]
Reframing lone-actor terrorism: ideological embedding, symbolic violence and transnational resonance in the Hanau case [open access article]

Defence and Peace Economics

Modeling Economic Sanctions as a Stochastic Game: Insights from Russia, Libya, and Iran [open access article]
Saudi Arabia’s Defence Industrial Transition: From Vision to Reality? [open access article]

Defence Studies

Reassessing Biddle’s Modern System: Data-Linked Kill Chains, Advanced Algorithms, and the Evolution of Combined Arms Warfare in the Russo-Ukrainian War [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Immigration Enforcement, Open Borders, and the Chinese Exclusion Cases [open access article]

Global Change, Peace & Security

Constitutional Integrity at Risk: The Self-Exonerating Pursuits of Power and Their Impact on Justice [open access article]

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

AI and the Reconfiguration of the Counterintelligence Battlefield [open access article]
The Emergence of Cognitive Intelligence (COGINT) as a New Military Intelligence Collection Discipline [open access article]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Exiting the Manosphere. A Gendered Analysis of Radicalization, Diversion and Deradicalization Narratives from r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill [open access article]
The Putative Effect of Identity on Extremist Radicalization: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies [open access article]
The Rise of Tunnel Warfare as a Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Issue [open access article]
Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s) [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

Breaking Point Bengal: An Election Heralds India’s Managed Democracy

UK Parliament House of Commons Library

Working with AI and Spotting AI-Generated Text

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

V-Dem Institute

Which Aspects of State Capacity Matter for Democratic Survival?

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 05-08-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:30:49 +0000

Americans for Responsible Innovation

Hands on the Trigger: The Operational Necessity of Humans with Lethal Autonomy

Amnesty International

“I’d Never Seen So Many Bodies”: War Crimes by the Allied Democratic Forces in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Anti-Corruption Data Collective

Insider Risks in Polymarket Political Markets

Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

Army T2COM G2

Russia’s Sanctions Evasion Tactics Create Exploitable Seams

Army University Press

Military Review, May-June 2026, v. 106, no. 3

How Hungry Is the Bear? Assessing the Mobilizing Power of Territorial Ambitions
Deep Battle and Deep Operations in Contemporary Warfare: Maintaining Momentum and Sustaining Operations on the Transparent Battlefield
Rethinking the Theory of Victory for the "Next War": Beyond Lanchester's Laws and the Modern System
Forging an Engineer Regiment for Large-Scale Combat Operations
Army Doctrine for Defending the Littorals
Security Cooperation: A Model Against Transnational Threats
Unmanned Systems and Army Special Forces
Army Aviation at the Joint Readiness Training Center: A Concept for Optimization
Balancing Artificial Intelligence with Army Leadership Competencies and Attributes
Introduction to "Educating the Military Practitioner" Series
Professional Military Education Is a National Security Imperative
Augmenting PME: Why Partnering with Civilian Institutions Enables Additive Resources
Teaching Design Thinking
Echoes of Chivalry: Military Honour and Human Dignity in the Age of Professional Armies
Facts About the Purple Heart

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Strategic Shift in China's Primary Aluminum Industry

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

Naval Competition in South Asia and the Limits of Confidence Building Measures

Atlantic Council

Australian Signals Directorate

Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

China Defence Universities Tracker

Baker Institute for Public Policy

China’s Strait of Hormuz Oil Security and Escalation Playbook

Bloomsbury Collections

The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World [open access book]

Brookings

Brown University Costs of War Project

Terrorizing Migrants: Five Ways Post-9/11 Legal Precedents Paved the Way for Anti-Immigrant Actions in the United States

Cato Institute

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Operation Epic Fury: 7 April to 5 May

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL)

No. 25-1074, The Ukrainian Underground: Lessons for MEDCOM Sustainment in LSCO

Center for Democracy & Technology

Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Unleashing Defense Innovation: Building a Future-Capable Force

Center for International Policy

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Understanding China's Footprint in the Pacific Islands' Media Landscape

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

Mission Assurance Guidelines for Mission Risk Classes and Do No Harm (DNH) for Space Vehicles

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC)

Quantum Cryptography: Assessing Technological Advancements and the U.S. Landscape

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

The Foreign Agents Registration Act: Its Structural Failures and the Case for Reform

Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

Caught Between Geopolitical Rivals: Security Concerns Entangle Cyprus in Regional and Global Power Politics

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

Targeting Gaza's Hospitals: Mapping the Systematic Destruction of Healthcare

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

How Economists Can Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the U.S. Congress

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Council on Geostrategy

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Defense Acquisition, v. 55, no. 2, March-April 2026

A Close Look at the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul
Our University: Enabling the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul
The Competition in Contracting Act
Intellectual Property—A Strategic Vision for Flexibility
PSMs, Catalysts to Availability and Performance
AM For Building and Strengthening Product Support
Navy Sustainment Accountability in Program Acquisition
Harnessing the Strategic Power of Cross-Functional Teams
2025 Warfighting Acquisition Awards

Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

DOWIG‑2026‑084 Evaluation of the DoW’s Implementation of the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan
DOWIG-2026-083 Audit of Cyber Vulnerabilities Impacting Department of the Air Force Defense Critical Infrastructure
DOWIG-2026-082 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation, U.S. Army Directorate investigation of Family and Moral Welfare, and Recreation Fort Irwin, California
DOWIG-2026-080 Follow-up Evaluation of the DoW’s Tracking and Accountability of Presidential Drawdown Equipment Provided to Taiwan
DOWIG-2026-079 Audit of Interface Controls Over the DoW’s Advancing Analytics Repository
DOWIG-2026-078 Evaluation of DoW Voting Assistance Programs for Calendar Year 2025
Operation Enduring Sentinel and Other U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan (OES)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Active Assailant Integrated Response Recommended Equipment List and Guidance for First Responders

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

AUD-FM-26-11 Audit of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, U.S. Section, FY 2025 Financial Statements
OIG-26-06 Deficiencies in I&A Mobile Device Security Create Vulnerabilities, Place Information at Increased Risk

Department of State Inspector General

AUD-SIP-26-07 Audit of U.S. Missions’ Emergency Preparedness in Eastern European Countries
OIG-26-03 Information Brief: Best Practices for Oversight of International Organizations
WISP-26-02 Management Assistance Report: Law Enforcement Credentials, Weapons, and Premium Pay for Employees in Non–Law Enforcement Roles

Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

The Euroclear Saga

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Policy Centre (EPC)

One Europe: Why Britain Belongs, and How to Get There

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Beijing’s Critical Raw Material Weapon - And How to Dismantle It

FEMA Review Council

Final Report

Presentation

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

The Destabilising Role of the United Arab Emirates in African Conflicts

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Out of the Dependency Trap: Why Germany’s and Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Policy Falls Short and How to Fix It

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Artificial Intelligence: Uses and Risks for Small Business Contracting and Innovation Research GAO-26-107828
Compacts of Free Association: Education and Health Remain Priorities, but Implementation and Oversight Are Delayed GAO-26-107778
Department of Energy: Action Needed to Approve Advanced Test Reactor Spent Fuel Plan GAO-26-107969
Environmental Liabilities: Naval Reactors’ Disposition Partnership on Track to Save Billions GAO-26-108056
Mariner Training: Maritime Administration Should Share More Information About Financial Aid and Careers GAO-26-108184
Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Better Data and Project Prioritization Vital to Managing Aging Infrastructure and Communicating Needs GAO-26-107957
U.S. Ports of Entry: Update on CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs GAO-26-108751
Veteran Affairs: Acquisition Reorganization Should Reflect Leading Practices GAO-26-108474

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

No Fuel, No Fight: The Dutch Fuel Industry and European Military Readiness

Human Rights Watch

IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

Stability without Shortcuts: Overcoming Reduccionist Debates on Security in Latin America

Institute for Science and International Security

Comprehensive Analysis of Nuclear Facilities Targeted During the Second Phase of the Iran War

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

May 7, 2026 Tensions Rise over RSF Khartoum Strikes; TPLF Asserts Control of Tigray; US Sanctions on Kabila Could Backfire

Applying US Air Warfare Theory and Doctrine to Evaluate the Campaign against Iran, Part II: Iranian Missile Forces
China & Taiwan Update

May 8, 2026

Iran Must Not Rule the Strait of Hormuz
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

May 5, 2026

Russia’s Resettlement Strategy in Occupied Ukraine
Russian Occupation Update

May 7, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Crisis Group

A Jungle Heist: Shielding the Amazon from Organised Crime

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

The Nordic-Baltic States in the Indo-Pacific: Similarities and Challenges

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Irregular Warfare Center

Why Iranian Kurdish Groups Have Not Opened a Northern Front Against Tehran

Marine Corps University Press

The Road to Hue: The U.S. Marine Combined Action Platoons and the Battle that Changed the Vietnam War

Martens Centre for European Studies

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

National Counterterrorism Center (NCC)

Mitigating Terrorist Threats at Special Event Fan Zones and Watch Parties: Public Safety Considerations

NATO Defense College

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Naval War College

Naval War College Review, Spring 2026, v. 79, no. 2

Emerging Warfare Dynamics in the Algorithmic Age—Artificial Intelligence, Mass, and Deception in Systemic Conflict
Cyberattack-Resilient Artificial Intelligence in Navies—Solving the Skill-Needs Gap
Artificial Intelligence Challenge to Strategic Assessment Organizations
Will Navies Prevail in “Generation Drone”?—An Australian View
The Art of Securing “Strong Places” Overseas—A History of a British Naval Base in Oman in the Early Twentieth Century
Research & Debate—The First AI War
Set & Drift—Disposing of Sea Mines in Operation DESERT SHIELD: Developing EOD Doctrine in Wartime

Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108, no. 1

Unpacking Jus ad Bellum Proportionality and Examining its Relationship with the Jus in Bello in Light of the Equal Application Principle

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Effects of Hearing Protection Devices on Speech Intelligibility and Situational Awareness – A Literature Review

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Observer Research Foundation

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Change in International Law: Paths, Processes, Power [open access book]
From Sovereignty to Guardianship: Governing Antarctica, Governing the World [open access book]

Pew Research Center

About Half of Americans Continue to Say Trump Administration is Doing ‘Too Much’ on Deportations

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

An Opening for a New US–China Economic Relationship

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), May 2026, v. 18, no. 3

Assessing Dynamics of Foreign Terrorist Fighters from Southeast Asia
Syria After Assad: Fragile Stability and the Transnational Realignment of the Islamic State (IS)
Al-Qaeda’s Evolution: Future Course and Key Implications for Peace and Security
The Iran War: Regime Resilience and the Threat of Violent Terrorism in the Middle East and Beyond

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Mapping the Military AI Industry

Swedish Defence Research Agency

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Beyond Dodik: Party Politics and Power in Republika Srpska

Swedish National China Centre

Taylor & Francis

Conflict, Security & Development

How Does Climate-Related Vulnerability Influence Violent Extremist Networks in Kenya’s Peripheries? A Preliminary Review [open access article]

Defence Studies

A Future System: Human-Autonomy Command of Emergent, Dynamic, Global and Evolutionary (EDGE) Operations [open access article]

Defense & Security Analysis

South African Military Strategy at the Turn of the Millennium [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Damaging Democratic Citizenship: The Ideology of Digital Empowerment [open access article]

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

After Dehumanisation: Identity Trauma in Hostage Captivity and Implications for Post-Captivity Care [open access article]
Countering State-Perpetrated Arbitrary Detention: A Strategic Framework for Democratic Response [open access article]
Establishing a Multilateral Rapid Response Mechanism for Hostage Crises [open access article]
Forming and Changing Opinions About Hostage Negotiations During War: Early Attitudes, Political Orientation and Emotional Connection to Hostages’ Families [open access article]
Reparations for the Survivors of State Hostage-Taking [open access article]
State Hostage-Taking as Coercive Diplomacy [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

Assessment of Vulnerability to Disruptions to the Supply of Semiconductors [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

The War in Iran and Cross-Strait Stability: Despite Diminished US Capabilities, a Chinese Attack on Taiwan Remains Unlikely

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Additive Manufacturing of Conventional Military Equipment: Implications for Arms Control and Security

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

US Central Command (CENTCOM)

Unipath, Winter 2026, v. 13 no. 4

Multinational Forces Prepare for Modern Missions
Yemeni Forces Return to Bright Star Exercise
Steadfast on the Seas
Iraq’s Soft-Power Approach to Countering Violent Extremism
Elite Instruction
A Beacon of Hope in the Arabian Gulf
Tightening Border Control
A Postconflict Solution in Gaza
The Yemeni Coast Guard: First Line of Defense for Maritime Security
The Effectiveness of Military Confrontation in Defeating Terrorism
Saudi Arabia Expands Military Cooperation with U.S.
Overseeing the Police
Protecting the Red Sea Region
Security and Prosperity
An Invincible Team
A Peaceful Transformation of the Levant

United States Studies Centre (USSC)

By the Numbers | Australia and Japan Identify Six High-Potential Critical Minerals Projects to Collaborate On

US Space Command (USSPACECOM)

Apogee, 2026, v. 2, no. 4

AI for Space: A New Strategic Imperative
The Final Frontier for Data: Why Tech Giants Want to Move Data Centers into Space
Unexpected Email: Chinese Reach Out with Warning About Possible Space Collision
Growing Army Space: A Separate Service Branch and Improved Communications are in the Works
Guardians on Orbit? New Report Says Crewed Missions May be Necessary
New Gleen, New Asset: Big Rocket Nears Certification for National Security Launch
The New Hight Ground: Artificial Intelligence is Fueling a Global Race for Military Supremacy in Space
The Early Origins of AI: Code Breaker Spoke of Intelligence Machines in the '40s
The Promise of Smart Satellites: Artificial Intelligence is Spawning Autonomous Spacecraft that can Work Quicker and Cheaper
Inside the Pentagon's AI Acceleration Strategy: New Rapid Capabilities Cell Aims to Transform Warfighting
The Dawn of Satellite Intelligence: NASA, JPL, Ubotica Transform Real-Time Earth Monitoring
AI on the Battlefield: Reducing Human Control Raises Tough Ethical Questions
Predictive Maintenance: How AI Can Keep Satellites on Orbit Longer and At Less Cost
Defense Satellites Debut: Russian Aggression Moves Poland and Others to Orbit First Military Spacecraft
From Strategy to Tactics: NATO Shifts Gears as Defense Dominates Space Spending
Pushing Back Against Russia: U.K. Uses Partnership, Detectors to Guard Space Assets
Sea Links for India: Biggest Comms Satellite Launched from Indian Soil Will Serve Navy
Tapping Industry for AI Power: Transformational Tool Seem as Key to Success in Space Defense
India-U.S. Space Collaboration: A Perspective from emerging Frontiers on Shared Challenges, the AI Explosion and Future Opportunities
AI Drives Operations in Space

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

White House

United States Counterterrorism Strategy

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 04-24-2026 & 05-01-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:22:00 +0000

38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Attacks in Mali Mark Long Trajectory of Worsening Security

Air University Press

Evaluating Air Force Special Warfare for the Contested Fight: Kill Chain Advantages as a Stand In Force

Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Artificial Intelligence and the Auto Industry

American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)

U.S. Leadership on Solar Radiation Management Is a National Security Imperative

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

Arctic Institute

Middle Power Deterrence: The Strategic Case for a Canada-Nordic Defense and Governance Alliance to Ensure a 21st Century Pax Arctica

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), March 2026, v. 33, no. 3

Mortality Rates Among U.S. Service Members, 2010–2020
Incidence and Burden of Endometriosis Among U.S. Active Component Service Women, 2017–2024
Mid-Year Populations by Sex, Age, and Race and Ethnicity of U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2023–2025
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 49, Ending December 6, 2025

Army Center of Military History

Army History Magazine, Winter 2026, no. 138

The Bonus Army: A Possible No-Win Situation Made Worse
The Forgotten War: Korean War Art by Weldy Baer
Operation Urgent Fury: A Staff Ride Toward a Joint Force
What Did He See? The Early Life and Military Career of T/4 Isaac Woodard

Army T2COM G2

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Guided Autonomy: America Watching in Xi’s China

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

Artificial Intelligence in the Australian Defence Forces: Strengthening Denial, Managing Escalation

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

Atlantic Council

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

AI Sandboxes Are Shared Ground for US-Mexico Cooperation

Brookings Institution

Brown University Costs of War Project

Budgetary Costs of U.S. Military Operations in Venezuela, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Pacific, August 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales) (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Who Will Make Money on AI? A Discussion Paper on Aligning Commercial Incentives with National Security Interests

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Transatlantic Action: Sanctioning Third-Country Enablers of Russia’s War Economy

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

An Evaluation of Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) Adequacy Standards and Recipient Housing Choices

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Beyond P(doom) for AI Risk: Quantifying Uncertainty Without Probability

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Caucasus Analytical Digest

No. 146: The Transformation of Armenian-Russian Relations

Russian Analytical Digest

No. 338: Agricultural Trade in Geopolitical Context
No. 339: Russia and Syria After Assad's Fall
No. 340: The Transformation of Armenian-Russian Relations

Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)

No. 18: Ukrainian Refugees in Europe

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

Choosing Less Bang for Buck: The Underutilization of Advanced Energetics

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS)

A Case Study in Applied History: Commissioning Historical Papers for the UK’s National Security Secretariat

Chatham House

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, April 2026, v. 19, no. 4

Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence
A View from the CT Foxhole: Greg Hinds, Former Director of Counter Terrorism, Interpol
The Collapse of Indefinite Detention in Northeast Syria: Implications Seven Years Later for Syria and Beyond
Security Lessons from the Paris Olympics for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Other Major Events

Conference of Defense Associations Institute

A Case for Canada’s Airborne Capability

Congress and King Charles III

The King’s Address to the Joint Meeting of Congress in Washington
Joint Meeting to Hear an Address by His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 74
YouTube Video

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council on Geostrategy

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Defending Against China-Nexus Covert Networks of Compromised Devices

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

DOWIG-2026-077 Physical Security Concerns Identified at Travis Air Force Base
DOWIG-2026-076 Evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Safety Quality Assurance Maintenance of Virginia-class Submarines

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

OIG-26-05 DHS Wildfire Sensors Did Not Consistently Detect Fires and Provide Early Warning

Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Economic Fury Targets Global Network Fueling Iran’s Oil Trade and Shadow Fleet

Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

Belarus as a Hybrid Threat Actor: A Russian Proxy with Residual Agency

European Policy Centre (EPC)

Preparedness Can’t Wait: AI Pushes Cybersecurity into a New Era

Europol

Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2026

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

Post-Assad Syria in Transition: Islamist-led Interim Government and Diminished Kurdish Self-rule Conditioned by the Regional Power Struggle

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Globsec

Annual Battle Readiness on the Eastern Flank (2026)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Aviation Workforce: FAA Could Strengthen Regional Pilot Pipeline by Establishing Timelines for Training Initiatives GAO-26-107856
Clean Water Act: Corps of Engineers Has Improved Oversight of Compensatory Mitigation, but Needs Implementation Guidance GAO-26-106827
Department of Government Efficiency: Treasury Needs to Fully Implement Data Protection Controls GAO-26-108131
Disaster Assistance High-Risk Series: FEMA Assistance for Disaster Survivors GAO-26-108154
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Additional Actions Needed to Address Significant Risks in Verifying Provider Eligibility GAO-26-108139
Hydrogen Energy: Technologies Offer Potential Benefits but Face Challenges to Widespread Use GAO-26-107932
Industrial Security: Improved Risk Management and Stakeholder Engagement Needed to Help DOD Address Mission Gaps GAO-26-107861
Military Personnel: DOD Should Improve Processes for Determining Cost-of-Living Allowances GAO-26-107490
Multimodal Freight Office: DOT Should Report to Congress on Progress Toward Meeting Statutory Requirements GAO-26-108554
Navy and Coast Guard Shipbuilding: A Disciplined, Strategy-Driven Approach Is Needed to Achieve Ambitious Goals GAO-26-109068
United Nations Renovations: Budget and Schedule Status of Selected Projects Are Mixed, and State Could Strengthen Oversight GAO-26-107577
Weapon System Sustainment: DOD Identified Critical Cost Growth, and the Army Should Take Action to Yield Cost Savings GAO-26-108140

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Henry L. Stimson Center

Reassessing Tunisia’s Strategic Importance for the United States

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

Start with the Youngest Children: China Uses Preschools to ‘Integrate’ Tibetans

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Government

Policy Making in a Crisis: A Civil Servant’s Guide

Institute for Science and International Security

Monthly Analysis of Russian Shahed 136 Deployment Against Ukraine

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

April 23, 2026 TPLF Undoes Tigray Peace Agreement; Rwanda Threatens Withdrawal from Mozambique
April 30, 2026 JNIM Continues Historic Offensive in Mali; Somali Piracy Revival Threatens Red Sea Shipping
Special Edition: Fall of Kidal—What JNIM’s Latest Offensive Means for Mali’s Future
Special Edition: US Competes with Russia and Others as It Engages African Autocrats

China & Taiwan Update

Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

Interactive Tour: Russia’s Cognitive Warfare Infrastructure
Russian Occupation Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

International Crisis Group

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

The Role of Military Gender Advisers in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Implications for Operational Effectiveness and The Future of Peacekeeping Operations

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

The Kurds of Iran as a Strategic Factor in Western Approaches to a Changing Islamic Republic
Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion is an IW Showcase
Russian Private Military Companies May Become a Security Threat to Their Hosts in Africa
PRISM, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 2

When States Go Rogue: Criminal Tools in Hybrid Warfare
Agriculture as a Domain of Hybrid Warfare: China’s Strategy and U.S. Security Gaps
Understanding Cognitive Warfare: Beyond Information
Medical Intelligence in Support of Irregular Warfare
Strategic Culture – A Complex Model for a Complex Concept
Maskirovka and the Olympics: The Russian Choice to Initiate Conflict During the Olympic Games
Soft Power by Design: China’s United Front Strategy for Taiwan’s Civil Society in the Age of Irregular Warfare
Countering Hostile Chinese Lawfare: An Irregular Warfare-Based Approach
From Saguntum to Taipei: The Hazards of Strategic Ambiguity
Mapping the BRICS Plus Cryptocurrency Ecosystem: Is the BRICS Plus Bloc Effectively Using Cryptocurrency to Avoid Sanctions?
Equity Chain Mapping: Adapting Counter Threat Finance for Great Power Competition
Shadow Strategy: Air and Space Power in the Gray War
Controlling Command: Is AI Capturing the Ethics of War?
Preparing for Future Wars: Incongruent Beliefs on Autonomous Weapons
Warfare in the Technology Arena: Cost-Imposition and Maneuver in the Electromagnetic Battlespace

Italian Institute for International Political Studies

Reviving Euro-Maghreb Ties in a Multipolar Mediterranean

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

2026 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Briefing Book

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, May 3, 2026, v. 26, no. 9

Great Power Conflict Concerns Spurs Stockpiling
State-Driven Nuclear Expansion is Winning Energy Race
Beijing Argues Japan’s Rearmament is Illegal
‘Fingertip Formalism’ Undermines Digital Governance
New Free Trade Zone Solidifies Eurasian Ties
Takaichi and Japan Resist Chinese Pressure

Terrorism Monitor, May 1, 2026, v. 24, no. 8

Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
TTP and the Escalating Islamabad-Kabul Security Crisis
Lakurawa’s Hybrid Jihadist–Criminal Governance in Northwestern Nigeria
HAYI: Iranian Proxy Targeting Jewish and Israeli Sites in Europe

Terrorism Monitor, April 17, 2026, v. 24, no. 7

‘Unconditional Escalation’ Marks Iran’s Shifting Deterrence Strategy
Outlook for Minority Rebel and Separatist Militants in Iran
Houthis and Al-Qaeda Growing Terror Supply Chain
Potential for Kurdish Militants to Capture Territory in Iran
Nigerian Leaders Resist Iranian Revolutionary Ideology in Country’s North

Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

The Emirati Moment: The U.A.E.’s Strategic Cycle and the Iran War

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Public Carry Permitting Model Policy Guide

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

Echoes of Little Bighorn: Insights for SOF Success

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Europe Steps Up: Ukraine Support After 4 Years of War

Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Gatekeepers: Russia’s Coast Guard and the Control of Arctic Sea Lanes

Marine Corps University Press

Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2026, v. 17, no. 1

Forging the Will to Fight: Lessons from the Winter War, 1939–1940
Geoeconomic Analysis of Price of Persistence in the Fight against Terrorism: Financial Flows and the Psychology of Warfare
The Will to Fight: The Most Overused Phrase and Misunderstood Aspect of Warfare
Preventing an Unacknowledged Assumption: Inexhaustible American Will to Fight
Beyond Willingness to Fight: The Individual’s Defense Relationship Theory as a Comprehensive Framework for Citizen Commitment to National Defense and Security—A Review Article
More than Morale: Identity Fusion and the Psychology of the Will to Fight
National Will to Fight in Allied Democracies: A Comparative Enabling-Conditions Assessment
Beyond Break-Falls: MCMAP and the Will to Fight
Becoming, Not Joining: Belongingness as the Core Driver of Will to Fight
The Secret of the Ukrainian Resilience: National Identity and Will to Fight
Fighting for Someone Else

World War I: A Strategist's Guide and a Warning from the Past

Mercator Institute for China Studies

China is “Securitizing” Its Economy: Beijing Expands Security-First Economic Policy as Shocks from Global Crises Grow

Middle East Institute (MEI)

Turkish Foreign Policy

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

From Exile to Return: Rebuilding Lives and States after Conflict

Mitchell Institute

Rebuilding American Airpower: Balancing the Air Force’s Combat Forces for Peer Conflict

MITRE

National Bureau of Asian Research

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

Terrorism and Targeted Violence (T2V) in the United States: Workplace Violence

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)

Vital Signs 2026: The Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base

National Security Technology Acceleration (NSTXL)

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Ontological Foundations of Cognitive Warfare

NATO Defense College

Beam Me Up: Leadership Skills in Space

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

China Maritime Report #53: Filling the Ranks: China's Military Recruiting System and the PLA Navy
CMSI Translations #30: Vision for Future Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier Supply Ships
CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 5

CMSI Archive Translation: Sharpening Their Sword, On Course for Victory: An Account of the Armament Department of the East Sea Fleet Leveraging the Advantages of the New System in Order to Improve Equipment Support Abilities
CMSI Archive Translation: Attack of the “Iron Shark”—The Party Committee of an Eastern Theater Command Navy Submarine Flotilla Focuses on Actual Combat to Bolster Its Ability to Prevail in Combat
CMSI Archive Translation: Problems with Managing the Use of Warship Damage Control Equipment and Suggestions for Optimization
CMSI Archive Translation: Analysis of Problems with Warship Damage Control Plans and Methods for Preparing Damage Control Plans
CMSI Archive Translation: Construction of Carriers for Strategic Power Projection in Response to National Security Needs
CMSI Archive Translation: Why Landing Operations Are Hard
CMSI Archive Translation: Countermeasures for Problems in Transport Service Support in Cross-Strait and Beach Landing
CMSI Archive Translation: Approaches to Improving Support Capabilities for Dock-Less Unloading
CMSI Archive Translation: Deployment of Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricant (POL) Support Forces for Warship Formations Conducting Distant Ocean Operations
CMSI Archive Translation: Lessons from Foreign Submarine Rotation
CMSI Archive Translation: The Biggest Obstacle to Chinese Nuclear Submarines Going Out into the Indian Ocean
CMSI Archive Translation: Serve Readiness and Warfighting, Promote Marine Environmental Construction
CMSI Archive Translation: Mine Warfare Should Not Be Neglected
CMSI Archive Translation: Discussion of Capacity Building of China’s Mine Countermeasure Support Ships
CMSI Archive Translation: An Examination of the Use of Civil Helicopters in Mine Countermeasure Operations
CMSI Archive Translation: Research on Combined Support for Torpedoes and Sea Mines

CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 4

China Maritime Report #51: The Seafarer Profession in Contemporary China
CMSI Note 18: Flooding the Zone: The Use of Civilian Landing Craft (LCTs) in PLA Amphibious Operations
CMSI Note 19: China’s Blue-Water Research Fleet: Science in Service of Strategy
CMSI Note 20: Flying Higher and Higher: VADM Cui Yuzhong - Moving Up in Complex Times
CMSI Translations #26: Sea Dragon Refits Its Armor: The Type 076 Amphibious Assault Ship Ushers in a New Era
CMSI Translations #27: What is the Significance of the PLAN Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi Task Force's Distant Deployment to Australia?
*CMSI Translations #28: Uphold the Idea of a Maritime Community with a Shared Destiny and Forge a New Chapter in Maritime Military Security Cooperation

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Observer Research Foundation

Office of Science and Technology Policy [White House]

Adversarial Distillation of American AI Models

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Rebellious Follower: China’s Search for Science, Technology, and Innovation [open access book]

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Iran’s Next Transformation: How War Could Shift Power from Clerics to the Military

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

The Sentry

SilverLining and the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy

Protecting American Weather Sovereignty: Strategies for a Safe and Secure Atmosphere for America

Special Competitive Studies Project

The Autonomous Vehicle Crossroads: America’s Innovation Advantage Hits the Adoption Roadblock

Springer

The EU Charting its Course in a Geopolitical World [open access book]

Stanford Internet Observatory

Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2026, v. 3, no. 2

Protecting Young Users on Social Media: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Content Moderation and Legal Safeguards on Video-Sharing Platforms
Public Support for Misinformation Interventions Depends on Perceived Fairness, Effectiveness, and Intrusiveness
“I Tend to Run to Problems That People Run Away From”: Emotion as an Essential Asset in Trust and Safety Work
Uncovering and Overcoming Offender Tactics for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material on File-Hosting Services

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS)

Takshashila Institution

Taylor & Francis

Defence Studies

Butter Through Guns? Mobilizing Innovation for Defence in the Euro-Atlantic Area [open access article]
“Discreet Dominance”: Peacekeeping Deployments and International Security Force Assistance, and Their Impact on Civil–Military Relations in Nepal [open access article]
What is Psychological in Psychological Defence? Revisiting the Nordic Total Defence Doctrines [open access article]

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

Extremists in Uniform: The Case of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Between Openness and Resilience: Rethinking Citizenship in Times of Polycrisis [open access article]
Boundaries of Citizenship: Federal Perspectives and Democratic Minimum Standards in the EU [open access article]
Good Citizenship in an Unequal Society: The Value of Political Organizing [open access article]
Immigration and Social Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Deepening and Broadening Citizenship [open access article]

Geopolitics

The European Union’s Approach to Strategic Technology Governance: The Case of AI [open access article]
Micro Geopolitics in the World of Standards: Docking Tech Between China and Kenya as Everyday Diplomacy [open access article]

Global Crime

The Confluence of Crime: Mapping the Nexus Between Arms and Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean [open access article]

Journal of Military Ethics

Caritas pacem causat: How Can Virtues Serve Peace? [open access article]
Growing Autonomy and the Politics of Moral Responsibility for Military Action [open access article]
Loyalty as a Virtue and as a Value [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

Burnt Out on Wildfire Warnings: Quality Messages Drive Recreationists’ Safety, But Overload Backfires [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

Between Commitment and Restraint: The German Armed Forces in Somalia, 1992–1994 [open access article]
Beyond Cultural Determinism: Rethinking Military Effectiveness in the Gulf Monarchies [open access article]
Extremists in Uniform: The Case of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces [open access article]
Filling the Void: In Search of Special Operations Theory [open access article]
Hybrid Times: War and Peace in Military Innovation Studies [open access article]
Paradigm Evolution and Tension Dynamics in Disaster Recovery Research: A Theoretical Synthesis (1980–2025) [open access article]
Strings Attached: How Foreign States Control Non-State Armed Groups [open access article]

Security Studies

Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone [open access article]
Strings Attached: How Foreign States Control Non-State Armed Groups [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Sovereignty Under Siege: State Response, Fragility and the Political Ecology of Banditry in Sokoto, Nigeria [open access article]

Terrorism and Political Violence

Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice [open access article]
How Terrorism Strikes Financial Markets: Evidence from the 1920 Wall Street Bombing [open access article]
‘Playing the System’: Agency and Everyday Negotiations during LTTE Rule [open access article]
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences [open access article]
What Can Economics Contribute to the Study of Terrorism? – The Power and Limitation of Economics [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Parliament House of Commons

UK Parliament House of Lords

Toward a New Doctrine for Economic Security: Government Response

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

Decoding Transparency: How to Foster Public Trust in Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement

United States Studies Center (USSC)

Harnessing Australia’s Space Strengths for the Alliance

U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission

Friday's Miscellany 04-10-2026 & 04-17-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:32:00 +0000

38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

AidData

Air University Press

American Enterprise Institute

The 2027 Defense Budget Request: The Good, the Bad, and What to Watch

American Security Project (ASP)

Risky Weight-Loss Products: Hidden Threats to Military Health and Readiness

Asia Society Policy Institute

Atlantic Council

Australia Government

2026 National Defence Strategy and Integrated Investment Program

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Gulf States Retain Advantages in the AI Race Despite War

Brookings Institution

Cambridge University Press

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

The Beirut Pager Explosions of 2024: A Systematic Review of an Unprecedented Mass Casualty Event [open access article]
Civilian Shelter Guidance in Armed Conflict Zones: A Qualitative Study of International Humanitarian Practitioners [open access article]
Establishment of Rapid Response Teams for Emergencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Cross-sectional Qualitative Study [open access article] .
Preparing Local Professional Community Emergency Response Teams for Mass Casualty Incidents: Lessons Learned from Israel Since October 7, 2023 [open access article]

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Department of War Function Code Update and Coding Framework Review

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Centre for Maritime Strategy

Pier Review: Leveraging the Allied Maritime Industrial Base for U.S. Shipbuilding

Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS)

Conference of Defense Associations Institute

Building Whole-of-Society Resilience Against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in Canada

Congress. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

Buy What It Can, Steal What It Must: China's Campaign to Acquire Frontier AI Capabilities

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036

An Interactive Tool

Council on Strategic Risks

Department of Defense/War

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOWIG/DODIG)

Evaluation of Frustrated Air Cargo Supply and Transportation Discrepancy Reporting at Aerial Ports of Embarkation Intended for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Area of Responsibility
DOWIG-2026-075 Evaluation of the Military Sealift Command’s Support to the U.S. Navy in the Western Pacific Ocean

Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI)

Mobilizing Private Capital for Defense: Tactics and Recommendations

Executive Office of the President

National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

Theater Nuclear Weapons in NATO’s Deterrence: Towards the Revival of Flexible Response

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

The Risks of Chinese-Produced Cellular Modules

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

Rule of Law in Ukraine: More Than Combating Corruption

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Against the Odds: Lessons from Liberal-Progressive Successes in Central and Eastern Europe

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions: Agencies Should Collect and Apply Lessons Learned to Improve Future Procurements GAO-26-107859
Combating Fraud: Challenges in Managing Fraud Risks in Federally Funded, State-Administered Programs GAO-26-109093
Combating Illicit Substances: DOJ Enforcement of Unauthorized E-Cigarettes GAO-26-107991
DOD Financial Management: Navy Needs to Fully Address Strategic Planning and Systems Migration Leading Practices GAO-26-107119
Grants Management: Efforts to Address Challenges Through Government-wide Collaboration GAO-26-108283
Guam: Considerations for Evaluating Alternative Customs Models and Potential Economic Effects GAO-26-107811
Navy Contracting: Sea Systems Command Actively Manages Labor Cost Increases for Professional Support Services GAO-26-107889
STEM: Additional Data Needed on Graduate Researcher and Postdoctoral Scholar Compensation GAO-26-107757
Technology Transfer: Funding Recipients Keep Most Federally Funded Inventions, but Some Cited Reporting Challenges GAO-26-107971
Telework and Changing Travel Patterns: Department of Transportation Should Develop Guidance to Help Communities Prioritize Investments GAO-26-107532
VA Health Care: Efforts to Assess Mental Health Support for Veteran Caregiver Program Need Strengthening: GAO-26-108070
Veterans Community Care Program: Information on Behavioral Health Referrals, Fiscal Years 2021 Through 2024 GAO-26-108799

Henry L. Stimson Center

Securing the Future: Building the U.S. Nuclear Security Workforce Pipeline

Hudson Institute

The Security Environment in the Middle East

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Mobilizing for Techno-Economic War, Part 3: Transforming Financial Capitalism into National Power Capitalism

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security and Development Policy

China, Iran, and the Limits of Strategic Partnership Amid War

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

April 9, 2026: Now; Ethiopia Announces New Dams on Nile; Russia Establishing New Foothold in Madagascar
April 16, 2026: Turkey Expands Influence in Africa

Applying US Air Warfare Theory and Doctrine to Evaluate the Campaign Against Iran, Part I
China & Taiwan Update

The Importance of Ukraine’s Fortress Belt: Geospatial Intelligence Terrain Analysis
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

The Kremlin’s Expanding Media Conglomerate
Lessons-learned with Chinese Characteristics: Understanding the Limits of PLA Efforts to Adapt to Contemporary Warfare
Russian Occupation Update

April 9, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

World Economic Outlook: Global Economy in the Shadow of War

International Peace Institute (IPI)

UN Peace Operations and the Role of the Peacebuilding Fund

Middle East Institute (MEI)

Currency Boards as Political Commitments: Comparative Experience, Gold Reserves, and the Lebanese Case

Migration Policy Institute

What Do Changes in Turkey and Syria Spell for Kurds Seeking Protection Abroad?

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

China Maritime Report #52: Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises
CMSI Translations #29: Can “Armchair Strategizing” Secure Victory from a Thousand Miles Away?

New America

America’s Counterterrorism Wars: Tracking the United States’s Drone Strikes and Other Operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya

Observer Research Foundation

The Policy Edge of Japan and South Korea in Securing Critical Minerals

Oxford University Press

Journal of Conflict & Security Law

Annexation: A Threat That Never Fades [open access article]
From Emergency Relief to Development Holds: The Developmental Shift in the ICRC’s Humanitarian Assistance in Protracted Conflict [open access article]

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

US-China Cooperative Interdependence: Opportunities and Obstacles

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Secure World Foundation (SWF)

2026 Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment

The Sentry

Doubling Down: Russia's Military Network in West Africa

Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Afghanistan

Taylor & Francis

African Security

The Logic of Intervention in West Africa: A Case Study on Gambia’s Political Crisis [open access article]

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

The 2019 Christchurch Terror Attack: An Assessment of Proximal Warning Behaviors [open access article]
To What Extent Did the Terrorist Attack in Stockholm 2017 Instill Fear in the Swedish Population? [open access article]
Towards a Resentment-Driven Model of Intergroup Conflict: Using the Incel Phenomenon to Conceptualize Resentment as the Driving Factor for Ideologically Motivated Extremism [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Building the Fascist Body: Combat Sports, Violence and Masculinity in Far-Right Extremism [open access article]

Defence Studies

Beyond Kinetic Strikes: Opportunities for UAV-Borne Directed Energy in Disrupting Asymmetric Extremist Networks [open access article]
Neither Soldier, Nor Civilian: Forever in Between? Identification Processes of Dutch Veterans [open access article]
Nordic Strategic Culture(s) of Civil Defence? [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Antiracism for the Present: A Rejoinder [open access article]
Beyond “Platitudes of Support or Denouncement”: Researching Antiracism at a Time of Monsters [open access article]
Climate Cosmopolitanism: Broadening and Deepening Citizenship in Response to the Climate Crisis [open access article]
The Contemporary Left, Racialised Capitalism and Ending Racism [open access article]
“It’s Okay to Be White”: Anatomy of a White Supremacist Trolling Campaign [open access article]
Living with Political Difference: A Mutualist Ethos for Antiracisms [open access article]
The Muslim Vote or “Trap of the Surface”? Placing Muslim Political Participation on the Changing landscape of Electoral Politics in the UK [open access article]
Respectability, Resistance or Refuge? How Muslim Elites in Norway Respond to Domination [open access article]
Seeing Like a Muslim [open access article]

Geopolitics

Decolonising Civil War: Warscapes as Relational Conjunctures in Post-Coup Myanmar [open access article]
Green Windows or Old Traps? Geopoliticization, Extractivism, and Policy Challenges in the Global South [open access article]

Intelligence and National Security

Navigating Incompatible Imperatives in Intelligence Affairs: Bureaucracy, Flexibility and Pragmatism [open access article]
Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with 11th Mossad Director Tamir Pardo [open access article]
The Value of Engaged Critique: Civic Intelligence Oversight and the Freedom of Information in the Netherlands [open access article]
Veiled Intentions: Hamas’s Strategic Deception and Intelligence Success on 7 October 2023 [open access article]

Journal of Applied Security Research

Public Support for the Use of Facial Recognition Technology to Prevent Credit Card Fraud [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

The Effectiveness of Coercive Intelligence Disclosure: The Case of Israel and the German Scientists in Egypt [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Anti-Partisan War in Spain, 1936–1952: The First and Longest Fascist Counterinsurgency in Europe [open access article]
Ibrahim Traore: Burkina Faso’s Saviour, Dictator or Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist [open access article]
Operation Lafiya Dole and the Paradox of Peace by Force: Rethinking Counterinsurgency and Human Security in Northeast Nigeria [open access article]

Terrorism and Political Violence

Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists [open access article]

US Space Force

Friday's Miscellany 04-03-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:46:00 +0000

38 North

ACLED

Iran: Where and How US-Israeli Strikes are Harming Civilians

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Scaling What Works: Community-Level Mediation Strategies to Support Peace and Security in Africa

Air University Press

Implementing New Airpower Concepts: Insights from Agile Combat Employment

Amnesty International

Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

Cyber Defense Review, 2026, v. 11, no.1

Defeating the Cyber Invasion with a National Cyber Force
Why Alignment Matters: Cyber Capabilities and Military Operational Schemes in All-Domain Operations
Conceptualizing Cyber Strategy: Mapping Theories of Security in Cyberspace
The Offense Death Cycle: Proactive Environmental Control as a Method of Persistent Cyber Defense
Toward Integrated Persistence: A Comparative Study of U.S., Australian, and Japanese Military Cyber
Policy through Cyber Persistence Theory
Digital Force Protection for Expeditionary Land Forces: An Early-Warning Framework for Mission
Command Resilience
Protecting Energy Systems for Power Projection: The Promise and Peril of AI for Cyber Early Warning
Systems
Trust After the Fight: Long-Horizon Cyber Risk in Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance
Mapping Communication Hijacking in the Asia-Pacific: Data-Driven Insights into Disinformation Networks
David’s Sling, Goliath’s Bill: The Economics of Drone Defense - A Layered Defense Framework

Army T2COM G2

Army University Press

Military Review, March-April 2026, v. 106, no. 2

In Pursuit of Advanced Foresight: A Brief Survey of the Kremlin's Military Decision-Making Process
Forward Presence at What Cost? Rethinking U.S. Armored Brigade Rotations in Europe
Tactical River Crossings: Is It Time to Reconsider the Current Doctrine's Tactics and Procedures?
XIV Corps and Land Component Command Operations in the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942–1944
Penny Wise, Dollar Stronger: Why the Pentagon Should Reform, Not Cut Military Advising Missions
The Knowledge Paradox: When Military Units Don't Know What They Know
A Swift Answer to the Unknown: How the U.S. Army Can Seize a Central Role in Drone Warfare
Restructuring by Reassembly: Patterns of Organizational Reform in the U.S. Army
Breaking Babel: Using AI to Enable Real-Time Translation in the Classroom and Beyond
Fixing Where Soldiers Sleep: Why the Barracks Task Force Is Necessary—and What It Must Deliver
Measuring the Effectiveness of the Military Parental Leave Program in the U.S. Army
Moral Development as Character Development in the U.S. Army

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Seeking Agency in Uncertainty: Asian Middle Powers and the Fragmenting Global Order

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

Securing Europe, Shaping the Pacific: How NATO Sharpens America’s Pacific Edge

Atlantic Council

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

The Sino-Russian Partnership: Why it Matters for Australian Security and Defense

Brookings Institution

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Right-Wing Populism and Strategic Realignment: Argentina’s Milei Experiment

Cato Institute

How Viktor Orbán’s Hungary Eroded the Rule of Law and Free Markets

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Operation Epic Fury

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Hit It with Your Best Shot: An American Doctrine of Economic Pressure

Center for Cybercrime Investigations & Cybersecurity

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, 2026, v. 9, no. 1

Operationalizing Cyber-Routine Activities Theory for Senior Cybercrime Prevention: An Evaluation of the SHIELD Training-the-Trainer Program
Vishing and Smishing Perpetrators and Their Victims in Nigerian Slums

Center for Data Innovation

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Center for Global Development (CGD)

What Will It Mean for Development Agencies to Be Effective in the Years Ahead?

Center for International Policy

Assessing The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Iran Deal: Its Provisions, Verification Results and Political Support

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Analyses in Security Policy

No. 374: Ceasefires: Integrating Emerging Technologies

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Arsenal in Transition: Lessons from World War II Industrial Conversion

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Resurrected: The Newest Tool in the National Security Kit

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2025, v. 24, no. 3

Israel, Qatar, and the Hierarchy of Warning
From Seeds to Suffering: Herbicides, Environmental Degradation and Slow Violence
Manageable Mandate or Mission Creep? The Canadian Armed Forces Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies
What Luck Has to Do with It: Understanding the Role of Nuclear Luck in Decision-Making
The PATRIOT Act: The Friction Between Civil Liberties and National Security
Military Peace Leadership to Protect the Force and Civilians in an Ever-Changing Environment

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

Chatham House

Breaking the Deadlock on AI Governance: How a Crisis Could Lead to Global Coordination

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

In China’s View of the New U.S. National Security Strategy, Continuity Outweighs Change

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Commercial Space Federation

Redshift: The Acceleration of China’s Commercial and Civil Space Enterprise & The Challenge to America

Conference of Defense Associations Institute

Seven Routes, One Problem: Commanding the Northwest Passage with Limited Power

Congress. House. Select Committee on China

Crude Intentions: How China Became the Clearing Market for Sanctioned Oil

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Budget Infographics for Earlier Years

Using the CBO-EPPA Model to Analyze Carbon Import Tariffs and Export Rebates

Council on Criminal Justice Task Force (CCJ)

Assessing AI for Criminal Justice: A User Decision Framework

Council on Geostrategy

Technology’s Integration in the British Armed Forces: Enhanced and Accelerated Training in the 21st Century

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Russian Intelligence Services Target Commercial Messaging Application Accounts

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

A Review of Danish Arms Control Policy

Department of Defense/War

Annual Report on Suicide in the Military for Calendar Year 2024

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-074 Management Advisory: Sufficiency of the Naval Special Warfare Command’s Five Potential Solutions in the Traumatic Brain Injury Operational Deficiency Report

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Taiwan Analysis Brief

European Council on Foreign Relations

Fast Energy: How Europe Can Power the AI Revolution and Stay Competitive

European Policy Centre (EPC)

Europe’s Place in the Global Permacrisis

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

Practical Guide on the Best Interests of the Child in the Framework of International Protection

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Serbia's Measures to Counter Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD)

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism

Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

Norway’s Energy Policy Dilemmas and Debates: In or Out?

Gallup

Social Media Use Linked to Mixed Views on Democracy

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

With, Without, Against Washington: Redefining Europe’s Relations with the United States

Global Financial Integrity

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Global AI Regulation at a Time of Transformation: The Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Federal Debt Management: Treasury Is Meeting Borrowing Needs but the Deteriorating Fiscal Outlook Poses Risks GAO-26-107529
Homeowners Insurance: Premiums Generally Tracked Inflation but Rose More in Disaster-Prone Areas GAO-26-107867
On the Horizon: Three Science and Technology Trends That Could Affect Society GAO-26-108079
Veteran Homelessness Programs: Opportunities to Improve Data Collection and Establish an Evaluation Plan GAO-26-107517

Heritage Foundation

2026 Index of Military Strength

HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies

De-escalating Ethiopia–Eritrea Tensions

Hoover Institution

Strategika, no. 104

Wargaming: The Legacy of Newport

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

'None Can Run Away’: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Burkina Faso by All Sides

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Evaluation of Biological Agent Clinical Sampling and Analysis

Institute for Science and International Security

IDF Strike on Alleged Fentanyl Production for Chemical Weapons R&D

Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

China’s Gwadar Gamble: Reshaping Sea–Land Connectivity

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Online Hate & Harrassment Targeting Public Figures and Influencers on Instagram in Jordan

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

April 2, 2026 - Houthis’ Potential Impact on Africa; DRC Commences Anti-FDLR Ops

China & Taiwan Update

April 3, 2026

Houthi Escalation Calculus Following Cautious Entry into the Iran War
Interactive Map: U.S. and Israeli Strikes in Iran
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

March 31, 2026

Russian Occupation Update

April 2, 2026 /

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Escalation in the Taiwan Strait: Scenarios and Implications for Estonian Security

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, April 3, v. 26, no. 7

PRC Supply Chain Ecosystem Behind Iran’s Drone Campaign
Jilted but Persistent: Growing PRC Assertiveness in Panama
Experts Indicate Evolving Safeguards for Early Warning Counterstrike Posture
The Policy–Reality Gap in the PRC’s Property ‘New Model’
The Myth of the PRC’s Overseas Energy Vulnerability

Terrorism Monitor, April 3, 2026, v. 24, no. 6

Crocus City Hall Terrorism Trial Exposes Russian Counterterrorism Gaps
Persistent Threat of Drone-Enabled Lone Actor Terrorism

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

Leveraging Social Media Intelligence and Open-Source Intelligence for AI-Driven Predictive Analytics in Irregular Warfare

MITRE

Expanding Other Transaction Authority to Support the Pivot to a More Commercially Focused Warfighting Acquisition System

National Bureau of Asian Research

Analyzing National Quantum-Computing Ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific

National Counterterrorism Center (NCC)

Tailored Security for Major Events Mitigates Terrorist Threat to Hospitality and Nightlife Industry

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

Covert Nuclear Testing and the Enormous Increase in Chinese Nuclear Weapons Capability
Journal of Policy & Strategy, 2026, v. 6, no. 1

German Nuclear Independence from Washington?
Political Objectives, Nuclear Forces, and the Enduring Value of U.S. Intercontinental-Range Ballistic Missiles
Emerging Technology and Presidential War Powers
A New Latin American Policy: The Trump Doctrine or a Trump Corollary?
Challenging the Arms Control Mythology: A Century of Experience, September 2025
Ending the Threat from Iran, October 2025
Should the United States Resume Nuclear Testing?, December 2025
Document No. 1. U.S. Department of State, Agency Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2026-2030, January 2026 (select excerpts)
Document No. 2. U.S. Department of Defense, 2026 National Defense Strategy: Restoring Peace Through Strength for a New Golden Age in America, January 2026 (select excerpts)
Document No. 3. U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Hearing to Receive Testimony on Strategic Competition in an Unconstrained, Post-New START Treaty Environment, February 3, 2026 (select excerpts
Colin S. Gray, Out of the Wilderness: Prime-time for Strategic Culture (Fairfax, VA: National Institute for Public Policy, 2006)

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

CMSI Translations #28: Uphold the Idea of a Maritime Community with a Shared Destiny and Forge a New Chapter in Maritime Military Security Cooperation

Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108, no. 1

Technology-Based Challenges to the Law Applicable to Trade Interdiction During Armed Conflict at Sea: The Law of Naval Warfare and Convoy Operations

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

Europe’s Next Enlargement: What Berlin, Paris, and The Hague Really Think

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

2025 Secretary General's Annual Report

Prior years

Observer Research Foundation

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Annual Statistical Transparency Report (ASTR) Regarding the Intelligence Community’s (IC) Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities for Calendar Year 2025

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Chronic Crises: An Exploration of Crises with No End in Sight [open access book]
Counter-Peace: Tactical Blockages to Peace and Strategic Risks for the International System [open access book]
Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries [open access book]
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law [open access book]
The Oxford Handbook of the Moroccan Economy [open access book]
Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France [open access book]

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

The Sentry

Eastern Libya’s Top Money Man: Spotlight on Ahmed Gadalla

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

From Deadlock to Dialogue on the Korean Peninsula: It is Time to Revisit the Idea of North East Asian Regional Security Talks

Swisspeace

Dialogue after Peace? A Gender Perspective on Track Two Dialogues in Colombia, Kosovo, and the Philippines

Taylor & Francis

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

More Alike Than Unlike? Comparing Characteristics of Violent and Non-Violent Extremist Offenders [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

On Decolonial and Abolitionist Arguments against the Strategic Uses of “Terrorism” [open access article]

Defense & Security Analysis

Military Interoperability: Considerations for Small States [open access article]

Global Security: Health, Science and Policy

Jordan Experience in Combating Coronavirus: A Descriptive Analytical Study of Defense Orders (2020–2022) [open access article]

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Countering State-Perpetrated Arbitrary Detention: A Strategic Framework for Democratic Response [open access article]
Forming and Changing Opinions About Hostage Negotiations During War: Early Attitudes, Political Orientation and Emotional Connection to Hostages’ Families [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

Coercion By Military Assistance: A Two-Level Strategy [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

The Crime-War Seam: Russia’s shift from Liminal Competition to Open War [open access article]
Fascist Anti Partisans Strategies in the Italian Civil War, 1943–1945 [open access article]
If Only We Understood Them Better: Country Experts and the American War in Vietnam [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

China 201 Series

Friday's Miscellany 03-27-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:05:00 +0000

38 North

AidData

Anchoring Global Ambitions: Beijing’s Ports Financing and the Race for Maritime Dominance

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Codifying Coercion: China’s Anti-Secession Law and the Threat to Taiwan’s Sovereignty

Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

Arctic Institute

Beyond the Northern Sea Route: The Developmental State and Japanese Arctic Energy Policy

Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

AI Ambitions in a Thirsty Region: Water, Data Centers, and South Asia’s Digital Future

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

Atlantic Council

Australian Signals Directorate

Securing Space: Cyber Security for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communications

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Peace Through Strength? Questioning the Middle East’s (Dis)Order

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

Brookings Institution

A Strategy for Staying Out: Recalibrating US Support to Taiwan

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Operation Epic Fury

The First 29 Days

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Repairing the Breach: Getting U.S.-India Ties Back on Track

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Diamond in the Rough: The Past, Present, and Future of NATO’s ISR Force

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

Studies in Intelligence, v. 70, no. 1 (Extracts, March 2026)

Espionage in Our AI Future: Why Human Intelligence Still Matters
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House

Holding State-Sponsored Hackers and Other Cyber Proxies to Account

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

AI Diplomacy for a Multipolar World: Europe’s Moment to Act on Trusted AI Partnerships

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, March 2026, v. 19, no. 3

The Bondi Attack: The Islamic State’s Strategic Shifts and Jihadi Tactics in Australia
A View from the CT Foxhole: G.B. Jones, Chief Safety and Security Officer, FIFA World Cup 2026
Will the Center Hold? The Houthis’ Fraying Tribal Alliances
From Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism

Council on Foreign Relations

The Global Water Crisis: Stress, Scarcity, and Conflict

Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Defense Acquisition, v. 55, no. 1, January-February 2026

Product Support: Vital to Warfighter Success
Interview With Devin L. Cate, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Technology, Engineering and Product Support
A Call-to-Action: Ensuring Resilience Through Co-Sustainment
Readiness by Design
Improving Sustainment Outcomes Through Digital Product Support
Lessons from a Joint Exercise at the Point of Need
Rethinking Sustainment and Resilience Metrics for the Modern Fight
The Merits of Fast Payment on Contracts
Engineering Initiatives for the U.S. Army

Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-073 Audit of Naval Supply Systems Command Management of Inventory Items with No Demand for 5 Years or More
DODIG-2026-071 Audit of DoD’s Management of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program Contract for the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti
DODIG-2026-070 Audit of Navy Defective Parts and Contractor Restitution
DODIG-2026-062 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation Goldbelt Integrated Logistics Services, LLC Crane, Indiana

Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Information Manipulation: Chinese and Russian Approaches

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

ENISA Cybersecurity Market Analysis Framework (ECSMAF) – V3.0

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Africa's Power Choice: The Renewables Market and Its Implications for the EU

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Ukraine is Losing the War: Implications for Europe

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Aircraft Noise: Military Helicopter Operators Should Improve Outreach to Affected Communities in the D.C. Area GAO-26-107758
Artificial Intelligence: OMB Action Needed to Address Privacy-Related Gaps in Federal Guidance GAO-26-107681
Commercial Shipbuilding: Selected Offshore Wind Projects Used a Mix of U.S. and Foreign Vessels, Spurring Some Shipbuilding Investments GAO-26-107769
Consumer Protection: Government-wide Strategy Expeditiously Needed to Counter Scams GAO-26-109023
Cyber Workforce: Evidence-Based Decision Needed for the Future of OPM’s Dashboard GAO-26-108098
Debt Limit: Prolonged Negotiations Increase Taxpayer Costs and Disrupt Financial Markets GAO-26-107872
Department of Education: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Accountability in Higher Education GAO-26-109069
Flood Risk Mitigation: Reducing Fiscal Exposure and Improving Affordability GAO-26-109045
Future Vertical Lift: Senior Leaders Restructured the Army Aviation Portfolio to Reduce Costs GAO-26-108025
International Collaboration: U.S. Banking Agencies’ Participation in Climate Risk Network GAO-26-108020
Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Clarifying Definition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Could Help DOE Save Tens of Billions of Dollars GAO-26-108018
Securities And Exchange Commission: Recent Workforce Reductions and Other Personnel Management Changes GAO-26-107813
Securities and Exchange Commission: Updating Assessments of Staff Procedures Could Improve Key Agency Operations GAO-26-107823
Veterans Affairs: Further Actions Needed to Address Software License Management Challenges GAO-26-109060

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Heritage Foundation

Human Rights Watch

'Self-Determination is the Pathway to Liberation’: Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response in the United States

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Science and International Security

Assessment of Blue Barrels Moved into Esfahan Mountain in Days Before June 2025 War

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

Entangled Migrations PQC, QKD, and US–PRC Risk Postures for Critical Infrastructure

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

March 26, 2026: IS Targets Morocco and Spain; M23 Pulls Back in Eastern DRC

China & Taiwan Update

March 27, 2026

Hezbollah-Claimed Attacks Targeting IDF Forces and Positions in Israel Between March 1 and March 25, 2026
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

March 25, 2026

Russian Occupation Update

March 26, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Silent Shadows: Tracking Disguised PRC Vessels in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea

Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

America’s Golden Dome: Strategic Defence vs Space Weaponization
Military Use of Artificial Intelligence: Moral Concerns and Ethical Dilemmas
Nuclear Modernization or Arms Race? Reassessing Strategic Stability After the Demise of INF and the New START Constraints
Strategic Studies, Summer 2025, 45, no. 2

Deterrence or Provocation: Establishment of Naval Bases on Islands in the Indian Ocean
India’s Maritime Strategy in the Indian Ocean: Liminal Power or Emerging Maritime Hegemon?
Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Impact on Transparency, Accountability and Rule of Law
Pakistan-Bangladesh Relations: A Post-2024 Assessment
Modituva: A Corollary of Hindutva Ideology and its Anti-Pakistan Obsession

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2026, v.20, no. 1

Lexical Patterns in (Non-)Violent Extremist Content Online: A Linguistic Comparison of Jihadist and Salafist Discourse
‘Navigating Beyond the Digital Safe Haven’: Mapping the Course of pro-Islamic State Propaganda on Rocket.Chat through a URL Social Network Analysis
Recidivism After Terrorism Convictions in Belgium: Insights from Survival Analysis
“What is White Nationalism Anyway?” Understanding How 4chan Posters Construct and Define White Nationalism on the /pol/ Board
The Evolution of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP): Ideology, Strategy, and Aspirations
Radicalisation in Coercive Online Communities: A Research Note
The New Grey Zone: How Terrorism in Europe Has Changed
Bibliography: Use of Drones in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

The Current Fight with Iran and China’s Dependance on Imported Oil

Jamestown Foundation

Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Off Target: Evaluating Post-2019 Changes to Canada’s Gun Control Laws

Marine Corps University Press

China Military Studies Review, 2026, v. 2

Chinese Military Thinking on Siege Warfare

National Bureau of Asian Research

Digging up the Past to Justify the Present: China’s Archaeological Diplomacy in Central Asia

National Counterterrorism Center (NCC)

Enhancing Security for High Profile Figures at Public Gatherings

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

Parsing the New National Defense Strategy: Upending Bipartisan Tradition

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Ukraine’s Cyber Defence Evolution: The Role of Non-State Actors and Public-Private Partnerships

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Responding to Climate Change-Related Insecurity in the Lake Chad Region

Observer Research Foundation

Partnership for Public Service

Public Service Viewpoint Survey

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

Major Non-NATO Ally Status: The Politics of Security Norms

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Negotiating a Win-Win End to the Lose-Lose U.S.-China Trade War Over Technology and Critical Minerals

Pew Research Center

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Simon Fraser University

Journal for Deradicalization, Spring 2026, no. 46

The Resilience of Radicalism: Strategies for reducing dissonance and sustaining extremist attitudes
Mainstream Symbols and Misogynistic Extremism: Cultural Narratives and the Challenge of Deradicalizing Incel Ideology
Organizational Approaches to Incel Deradicalization: A Systematic Review
Research Method Note: Measuring and Evaluating P/CVE Initiatives with Respect to Human Rights and the Roles of Women

Soufan Center

Priming, Destabilizing, Coercing: Russian Hybrid Tactics in Europe 2022-2025

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Still Holding on Amidst Growing Digital Repression? Conditions for Civic Engagement in Russia Since 2024

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Swisspeace

Digital Nationalism and Cross-Border Tensions: Policy and Practice Insights from Online Conflict between Cambodia and Thailand

Takshashila Institution

Beyond Dollar: The Future Channels of India’s International Transactions

Taylor & Francis

Conflict, Security & Development

Disconnected Development in the Central African Republic: Why There Is No Trickle Down Nor Building Up in the World’s Poorest State [open access article]

Journal of Military Ethics

Loyalty as a Virtue and as a Value [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

Psychometric Properties of the OVIT (Organizational Vulnerability to Intentional Insider Threat) Model in a Norwegian Context [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

Battlefield Knowledge and Barracks Reality: Learning Practices within the Netherlands Army [open access article]
“Hamas is Deterred” As Wishful Thinking: An Analysis of How Israel Empowered Hamas to Attack Israel on October 7 [open access article]
Searching for the African Clausewitz: African Military Thought and the Universality of Strategic Studies [open access article]
Toward a Global History of Bombing in the Second World War: Taking Japan Seriously [open access article]

Policing and Society

Negotiating Hybrid Governance in Policing: The Case of Sweden’s National Gang Exit Programme [open access article]
When Deterrence Falls Short: Exploring Third Party Policing and Cross-Border Compliance Among Young Drivers [open access article]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms [open access article]
GIFCT Tech Trials: Combining Behavioural Signals to Surface Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

Transnational Institute (TNI)

Border Labs: How Universities Power Europe’s Border Regime

United Nations

Situation of Human Rights in Haiti: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

High-Risk Drug Use in Kazakhstan

United States Studies Centre (USSC)

Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

Whitewashing Winter Tourism: Global Sports and Leisure Industry Risks in the Uyghur Region

White House

National Policy Framework: Artificial Intelligence

Press Release

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Friday's Miscellany 03-13-2026 & 03-20-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:40:00 +0000

38 North

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Strengthening America’s Space Supply Chain: Built for Yesterday, Igniting Momentum for Tomorrow

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Air University Press

American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Center for Policy Research

The National Security Case for U.S. Leadership in SRM Technology

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Strategic Rationale for Submarine Rotational Forces West: Perspectives from the Alliance

Amnesty International

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), February 2026, v. 33, no. 2

Number of Tuberculosis Tests and Diagnoses of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among U.S. Army
Active Component Service Members, January 2014–December 2023
Post-Infection Symptoms in U.S. Soldiers with Malaria During the Second World War: Major Limitation to Return to Duty Standardized Surveillance Categories in Two U.S. Africa Command Exercises, 2024
CHAMPS: The Career History Archival Medical and Personnel System—A Summary of Career and Medical Records of the U.S. Armed Forces, 1980–2023
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 44, Ending November 1, 2025

Army Center of Military History

Army History Magazine, Fall 2025, no. 137

"Killed While Reconnoitering Camp of Hostiles"
The Soldier’s Shift from Animal to Motor Power
A Revolution in Crisis
The Army Mule that Fights Like an Eagle

Atlantic Council

Australian Institute of Criminology

Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice

no, 727 - Disengagement from Online Misogynistic Incel Communities and Its Implications for Attitudes to Gendered Violence
no, 723 - The Extent of Illicit Drug and Alcohol Involvement in Crime: An Updated Estimate

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Brookings Institution

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Following the Digital Snail’s Trail: The Short History of Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Operations

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Indian Foreign Policy in the Age of Populism

Cato Institute

World Trade Without the U.S.

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

Operation Epic Fury

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Independent Study in Support of a National Maritime Strategy: Summary Report

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

China National Space Administration Action Plan to Promote the High-Quality and Safe Development of Commercial Spaceflight (2025-2027) [translation]

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Belarus Analytical Digest

No. 008: Belarusian Democratic Opposition

Moldovan Analytical Digest

No. 005: The Parliamentary Elections of 2025 II

Russian Analytical Digest

No. 337: Scenarios for Russia's Future

Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)

No. 17: Protests, Resistance, Activism

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Diamond in the Rough: The Past, Present, and Future of NATO’s ISR Force

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Centre for Statecraft & National Security (CSNS)

Chatham House

Iran and Gaza Conflicts Teach Gulf States a Hard-Power Lesson

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)

U.S. Navy Fighting Instructions

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Congress. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

Inside China's Strategy to Reshape the United Nations

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee Minority Report

The Price of Retreat 2.0: Undermining America’s Economic Edge and Alliance Advantage

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

How Changes in Revenues and Outlays Would Affect Debt Service, Deficits, and Debt: 2026 to 2036

Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Geostrategy

Deterrence: Integrating Britain’s Conventional and Nuclear Forces

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense/War

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-072 Evaluation of Security Procedures for DoD Military Treatment Facilities in the National Capital Region
DODIG-2026-068 Evaluation of the DoD’s Efforts to Implement FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act Requirements for Fentanyl
DODIG-2026-067 Report of Investigation: MG Antonio A. Aguto Jr., U.S. Army (Retired) Former Commander, Security Assistance Group – Ukraine
DODIG-2026-065 Audit of the Army’s Management of Repairs to Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Meet U.S. Army Europe and Africa Mission Requirements
DODIG-2026-063 Emergency Medical Services Programs and Protocols at U.S. Army Garrisons in Germany
DODIG-2026-061 Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program
DODIG-2026-060 The Navy’s Management of Incinerators at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti

Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

MENA: Four Political Trends Shaping the Hybrid Threat Landscape

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

Foreign Military Studies Office

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Defense Contractor Cybersecurity: DOD Should Address External Factors That Could Impede Program Implementation GAO-26-107955
Democracy Assistance: State Should Require Plans to Mitigate Effects of Reported Antidemocratic Actions Overseas GAO-26-108754
Federal Information Transparency: Action Needed to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness and Enhance Program Integrity GAO-26-109034
Foreign Assistance: Opportunities Exist for Agencies to Improve Their Management of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Risks GAO-26-108945
Health Care Workforce: Federal Grants Supporting Mental Health GAO-26-107951
Quantum Computing: Updating the National Strategy Could Promote U.S. Leadership GAO-26-107759
Transportation Demonstration Grants: DOT Should Develop and Implement a Lessons Learned Plan GAO-26-107841
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Continued Use of Other Transaction Agreements for Civil Works Research and Prototypes GAO-26-108350
Ukraine Funding: HHS Allocation and Oversight of Refugee Assistance GAO-26-107815

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Frontiers of Influence: Counter Measures to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the Grey Zone

Heritage Foundation

Strengthening Strategic Stability in a Three-Nuclear-Peer World

Hudson Institute

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrence

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

Deadlock in the DRC
March 12, 2026 US Sanctions Sudanese Islamists; ISWAP Ramadan Offensive
March 19, 2026 Sudan War Continues Despite Iran War, Peace Efforts

China & Taiwan Update

Iran Update

March 9, 2026

March 10, 2026

March 11, 2026

March 12, 2026

March 13, 2026

Hierarchy of the Iranian Armed Forces as of 8:00 AM ET on March 17, 2026
Iranian Ballistic Missiles, Cruise Missiles, and Drones Launched at the United Arab Emirates between February 28, 2026 and March 18, 2026
Iranian Ballistic Missiles, Cruise Missiles, and Drones Launched at Saudi Arabia between February 28, 2026 and March 18, 2026
Iranian Ballistic Missiles and Drones Launched at Saudi Arabia Between March 1, 2026 and March 20, 2026
Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) as of 8:00 AM ET on March 17, 2026
The War in Iran: Operational Progress, but Challenges Remain
Korean Peninsula Update

Russian Occupation Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Crisis Group

Peace in the Philippines: The Bangsamoro’s Moment of Truth

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, March 26, v. 26, no. 6

Strategic Eurasianism: Xi and Putin Cement Bloc Alignment
PRC Tech Firms Practice Proactive Alignment
After Chagos Deal, PRC Seeks to Alter Indian Ocean Balance
Hidden Liabilities Complicate Pledge to Curb Overcapacity

Terrorism Monitor, March 13, 2026, v. 24, no. 5

Growing Role of Women in Baloch Militancy
Herof-2 Highlights Digital and Drone Advances in Baloch Insurgency (Part Two)
Islamic State’s New Threats in Northern Azerbaijan
Quadcopter Drones Reshaping Pakistan’s Militant Landscape (Part One)

Joint Interagency Task Force 401

Counter-UAS Operations: Safeguarding Freedoms and Preserving Privacy

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

The Perils of Misconception: Why U.S. Strategy Misjudges the Nature of Proxy Resistance

Lithuanian State Security Department

2026 National Threat Assessment

Lowy Institute for International Relations

The Ungoverned Sky: Drones and the Domestic Extremist Threat

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States

National Counterterrorism Center (NCC)

Potential Indicators of Illegal Fishing and Wildlife Trafficking by Terrorists

National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), no. 119, ( 4th Quarter October 2025)

Influence by Design: A Network Strategy for Integrated Deterrence
Fabrication at the Tactical Edge
Cognitive Warfare and Organizational Design: Leveraging AI to Reshape Military Decisionmaking
Ukraine, the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, and the Elusive Crisis-Era Munitions Production Surge
Breadth or Depth: The Ongoing Battle in Professional Military Education
A Primer on Ukrainian Special Forces: Beyond Joint
Political Objectives, Nuclear Forces, and the Enduring Value of U.S. Intercontinental-Range Ballistic Missiles
The Cyber Deterrence Dilemma: Parallels Between Cyber and Intelligence Special Operations
Combating IUU Fishing in the South American Pacific: An Opportunity to Counter Chinese Influence Closer to Home
What’s Old Is New: LSCO Casualty Evacuation in the 21st Century
U.S. Arctic Sea Lines of Communication: The Imperative for a Maritime Complex and Corridor in the Bering Region

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

National Priorities Project (NPP)

FACT SHEET: How Much is the War in Iran Costing Taxpayers?

NATO Defense College

Trade Off: An Economic Analysis of North Korean-Russian Relations

Naval War College

Naval War College Review, Winter 2026, v. 79, no. 1

People’s Republic of China Stratagems and Surprise Attacks—Implications for the Defense of Taiwan
Countering Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance in the Pacific—Mobile Missile Launcher Survivability against the People’s Liberation Army
U.S. and NATO Strategic Sealift and the Role of Norway
Shipwrecked—The Burlingame Policy and U.S. Strategy in China, 1867–1871
“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie”—The Impact of Naval Air Warfare during the Spanish Civil War on the Royal Navy, 1936–1939
Research & Debate—Operation SLEDGEHAMMER Reconsidered: Disaster Averted or Opportunity Lost?

Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

International Law Studies 2026, v. 108, issue 1

Closing the “Extreme Circumstances” Gap: The Legality of Nuclear Weapons When the Survival of a State is in Question

New America

The AI Lab Next Door: How Local Colleges Can Help Cities Translate Artificial Intelligence into Public Value

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Effect of Naval Sonar Exposure on Killer Whales and Humpback Whales

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

How to Implement a Full Maritime Services Ban on Russian Oil

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

Reconciling European Defence and the Energy Transition, Sovereignty and Sustainability: A Strategic Imperative for Europeans

Observer Research Foundation

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Expert Authority and the Limits of Critical Thinking [open access book]
Inclusive Innovation in the Age of AI and Big Data [open access book]

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research Center

Program on Extremism at the George Washington University

Global Extremism Papers – Inaugural Issue (2026)

Ghost Guns, Real Violence: The Strategic Use of 3D-Printed Firearms in Far-Right Terrorist Plots
Violent Extremist Offensive Cyber Capabilities
Terror 2.0: Redefining Terrorism and Extremism in the Age of AI
Reconciling Lone-Wolf Terrorism: Solo, Lone, and Group Actor Tactics in the United States
The Deontology of AI: Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Countering Terrorism and Radicalization by Katarzyna Maniszewska
Communication Patterns of the Islamic State of Khorasan
Digital Saturation Without Digital Governance: Assessing the Risk of an ISIS Resurgence in Iraq's Evolving Online Landscape
Echoes of the Caliphate: Content, Affect, and Recruitment Strategies of ISIS on TikTok
Outsourced Counterterrorism: The Role of Private Security Sector Actors in Responding to ISIS-Affiliated Threats

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND Corporation

Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute

National Security Innovation Base Report Card

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), March 2026, v. 18, no. 2

Understanding the Patterns of Youth Radicalisation in Indonesia
Will Jemaah Islamiyah’s Ideological Shift Lead to Wasatiyah (Moderation)?
The Ideological Transformation of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI): Using Religious Reasoning to Deconstruct Extremism
Social Relations, Radicalisation, and Disengagement in the Pro-Islamic State Group in Bima

The Sentry

The Libyan Investment Authority’s Not-So Frozen Billions: Mismanagement, Competition, and Corruption

Special Competitive Studies Project

The Robot Deficit: Diagnosing the U.S.-China Competition in Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

From Oil to Minerals: Gulf States as Middle Powers in the Race for Critical Minerals

Takshashila Institution

Taylor & Francis

African Security

Foreign Policy Instrument, Actor, or Infrastructure? Conceptualizing the Wagner *Group in Sudan [open access article]
Recognizing the Evolving Cybercrime Threats in South Africa [open access article]
Security Cooperations and Human Rights Violations: The African Israeli Case [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Bridging the Gap: Gender Mainstreaming and Counterterrorism in Multilateral Institutions [open access article]
Gendercide and Terrorism Studies [open access article]

Defence and Peace Economics

A Good Investment in Sustainable Development? A Literature Review on the Economic and Social Effects of Military Spending [open access article]

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

Behind the Enemy News: Issue Salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War [open access article]

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Between Solidarity and Hostility: Exploring the Paradox of Community Through Peer Research [open access article]

Global Change, Peace & Security

Peace and the Debacles of Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons for Future Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Scholarship [open access article]

Global Security: Health, Science and Policy

Frontier Large Language Models and Clinical Recognition of Category A Bioterrorism Agents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis [open access article]

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Establishing a Multilateral Rapid Response Mechanism for Hostage Crises [open access article]

Journal of Political Ideologies

Illiberalizing Social Democracy? Conservative Ideological Innovation on the Czech and Slovak Center-Left 2004–2021 [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

Factors Affecting the Intention of Disaster Survivors to Comply to Disaster Response Procedure and to Prepare for Future Disasters [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

Coercion, Consensus, and Capability: The Warsaw Pact and the Institutional Limits of NATO and EU Defence Coordination [open access article]
I Spy With My Little Eye: The Case of Norwegian Nuclear Intelligence Sharing with the United States [open access article]
Scandinavia in NATO’s Military Strategy: An Analysis of Cold War Intelligence Assessments and Strategy Documents [open access article]
Seeking a New Military Balance: Hans von Beseler’s Concepts for Rebuilding the German Fortification System in the East [open access article]

Security Studies

Strategy in the New Missile Age [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

‘A Clash of Cultures’: Varying Perspectives on the Rhodesian Incorporation into the South African Special Forces [open access article]
The Foundations of Exercise ALCORA: South African Military Support to the Portuguese Armed Forces in Angola, 1966–1970 [open access article]
From Cooperation to Amalgamation: The Integration of the Selous Scouts into the South African Special Forces [open access article]
Frontline State Security: Rebel Movements and Cover States in Southern Africa, 1970–1990 [open access article]
The Geology of War: Impact of Regional Geology in T.E. Lawrence’s Arabian Campaigns, 1916–1918 [open access article]
The Militarization of the South African Border War: South African Police & South African Defence Force Operations in Northern South West Africa (Namibia), 1965–1967 [open access article]
Narrating Peace: Memoir, UNTAG, and the Memory of Namibian Independence [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee

From a Common Understanding to Common Ground: Building a UK-EU Strategic Partnership Fit for the Future

UK Parliament House of Commons Library

Military Action: Parliament’s Role

UK Parliament House of Lords Library

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

Shaping the Future of Digital Rehabilitation in Prisons

UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Minimizing the Risk of Diversion of Pharmaceuticals Containing Controlled Substances from the Regulated Supply Chain

UN Trade & Development (UNCTAD)

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions – Implications for Global Trade and Development

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

US Marine Corps (USMC)

Command Investigation into the Facts and Circumstances Surrounding the Battery E. Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Firing Incident that Occurred on 18 October 2025 [redacted]

University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute

V-Dem Institute

Previous reports

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

William & Mary’s Global Research Institute (GRI)

Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) SNAP Polls

Friday's Miscellany 02-27-2026 & 03-06-2026

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38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Air University Press

Assuring Allies and Partners: The Utility of Ballistic Missile Defense

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

Reframing Palestine: A Comparative Analysis of Palestinian Representation in Western Legacy News Media and the Platformed Commentary Ecosystem

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Amnesty International

“Tiger Base” of Atrocities: Human Rights Violations by Nigeria Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit in Owerri

Andrew Marshall Foundation

Artificial Intelligence, the Complexity Trap, and National Security

Anthropic

Measuring AI Agent Autonomy in Practice

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2025, v. 33, no. 1

Guillain-Barré Syndrome Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2014–2022
Applying Distinct Approaches to Racial and Ethnic Classification to the Surveillance of Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes in the U.S. Military, 2010–2021
Case Report: An Atypical Ross River Virus Infection in an Australian Army Service Member
Surveillance Snapshot: Chikungunya in Military Health System Beneficiaries, 2020–2024
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 40, Ending October 4, 2025

Army University Press

Military Review, January-February 2026, v. 106, no. 1

Leadership in LSCO: Leading and Training Conscripts, Lessons from Ukraine, NATO Allies, and Our Own Past
Looking on the Conflict on the Horizon: From “Peace First” to a “Be Ready” Perspective
Red Skies Ahead: Russia Planning for Its Drone-Driven Army of Tomorrow
Prolonging the Fight: Enhancing Unit Survival Skills for the LSCO Environment
Saving Lives with Data: The Joint Trauma System is an Integrated Battlefield Trauma System that Saves Lives While Increasing Lethality
The U.S. Army in an Increasingly Borderless War: Challenge of Planning for Security in a Competition with China in Africa
A Choice to Lead: Generative AI in Army PME
Planes, Trains, Automobiles … and Now Helicopters: Integrating Air Support for Faster Resupply and Distribution
The Energy Requirements for Processing Data on the Future Battlefield
Leading by Letting Go: Integrating Organizational Unlearning and Adaptive Leadership
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constabulary Operations in the Eastern Arctic: Implications for Arctic Security
Causing Dysfunction: Dilemma Engineering as a Strategic Deterrence Framework for China
Moral and Spiritual Injury in War: Russo-Ukraine, Israel-Iran, and Beyond
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

Victory Starts Here: A Short 52-Year History of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1973–2025

Army War College Press

Parameters, Spring 2026 no. 56, no. 1

Legacies Worth Considering: (Re)examining the Assumptions Behind Denial Strategies
Approaching the Military as a Profession Through the Clausewitzian Trinity
Strategic Theory and Clausewitz’s Trinitarian Test
Successful Large-Scale Combat Operations Require Artificially Intelligent Breaching Munitions
Imitating US Doctrine Cost Europe Its Heavy Combat Power
Risk Decision Making and Intertemporal Choice: Lessons from the Taiwan Strait
Spezialpropaganda: The East German Military’s Covert Information-Warfare Program
Strategic Rivalries: How Are They Won?

Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

Securing the Rice Bowl: PRC Agricultural Hardening as a Strategic Maneuver Multiplier

Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

Rare Earths and Strategic Competition: A Case Study of Chinese Statecraft

Asia Society Policy Institute

Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

Loss and Containment: Asia-Pacific states and the exaggerated threat perceptions of the United States and China

Atlantic Council

2026 Atlas: Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

Australian Army Research Centre

In Denial: The ADF and Littoral Manoeuvre

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Disruption and Opportunity: Australia and Critical Minerals in a Changing Global Order

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

The EU and the Global South: Allies in a Multipolar World?

Bipartisan Policy Center

Deficit Tracker [updated February 2026]

Bloomsbury Collections [Open Access books]

Brookings Institution

Brown University, Costs of War Project

The Costs of Militarized Rivalry with China: A First Estimate

Bruegel

Defragmenting European Union Climate Policy

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Center for Global Security Research

On Theories of Change: Rethinking the Ban Treaty and Disarmament Strategies

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Implementation Opinions on the “AI + Manufacturing” Special Initiative

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Analyses in Security Policy

No. 372: Environmental Entry Points for Mediation
No. 373: Belarus in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Russian Analytical Digest

No. 334: Teachers and the Future of Russian Education
No. 335: The Limits of Economic Adaptation
No. 336: Nuclear Arms

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Breaking the Double Bind: U.S. Defense Strategy and Multi-Theater Deterrence

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

Inhibiting Information Exports: Restricting International Travel After Deemed Export Violations

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

Mass Detentions, Executions, and the Glorification of Violence: How the RSF Seized El Fasher

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS)

The Struggle for the City: Urban Recovery and Dispossession in Mosul and Damascus

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Americans See Congress as Weak on Foreign Policy Compared to the President

Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Cisco

2026 State of Industrial AI Report

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

College of Europe

The Quest for Economic Security and Competitiveness: Can the EU Still Effectively Manage the Environment-Trade Nexus?

Congress. House. Select Committee on China

Pulling Latin America into China's Orbit

Congress. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee—Minority Staff

Delayed by Design: Disaster Survivors Left Behind by DHS Secretary Noem’s $100,000 Approval Policy

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council on Foreign Relations

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense/War (DOD)

Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

Operation Enduring Sentinel and Other U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan (OES)

Department of State Office of Inspector General

Lead Inspector General for Operation Enduring Sentinel | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | July 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

The Effectiveness of EU Export Bans on Military Goods

European Policy Centre (EPC)

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

Practical Guide on Access to the Asylum Procedure

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

The Power of the Few: How Clusters Can Strengthen European Defence

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Taiwan’s Push for Societal Resilience: A Progress Report on Energy, Medical, and Digital Communications Lines of Effort

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Behavioral Health: Reported Funding for COVID-19 and 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 2020-2025 GAO-26-107915
COVID-19: Federal Efforts to Support Behavioral Health Programs During the Pandemic GAO-26-107748
Cybersecurity Regulations: Additional Industry Perspectives on the Impact, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities of Harmonization GAO-26-108685
Defense Industrial Base: DOD Efforts to Develop Domestic Biomanufacturing GAO-26-107797
Disaster Assistance: SBA Should Take Steps to Make Data Sharing with IRS More Efficient GAO-26-107682
DOD Joint Bases: Actions Needed to Improve Sustainment of Facilities GAO-26-106832
Federal Agency Workforce Changes: Update for January to June 2025 GAO-26-108719
Federal Workforce Data: Improvements Needed to Increase Transparency of Information on Senior Policy and Supporting Positions GAO-26-108164
Military Installations: DOD Should Improve Natural Disaster Cost Tracking and Planning for Resilience Improvements GAO-26-107786
Military Readiness: DOD Should Take Further Actions to Address Challenges Across the Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains GAO-26-108888
Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Needs to Improve the Accuracy of Cost and Schedule Information for Major Projects and Activities GAO-26-107820
Personnel Vetting: Leadership Attention Needed to Prioritize System Development and Achieve Reforms GAO-26-108838
Protections For Whistleblowers and Others: Selected Agency Actions Regarding Reports of Potential Wrongdoing GAO-26-107650
Public Health Preparedness: Improved Coordination Needed for HHS’s Emergency Preparedness Programs GAO-26-107507
Nuclear Security Enterprise: Assessments of NNSA Major Projects GAO-26-107777
VA Health Care: Recommendations and Observations to Improve Community Care and Support for Caregivers Related to the Dole Act GAO-26-108943
Weather Modification: NOAA Should Strengthen Oversight to Ensure Reliable Information GAO-26-108013

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Hamilton Project

Building Pro-Worker AI

Henley Putnam University

Journal of Strategic Security, 2026, v. 19, no. 1

Conscripts, Convicts, and Contractors: Ersatz Soldiers and Russia's Total Mobilization Workarounds
Hypersonic Missiles: Evaluating Modern Warfare in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Push and Pull: NATO, EU, and Poland’s Positioning After 2022
Post-Ukraine Fallout: How Azerbaijan’s Break with Russia Reflects the Strategic Consequences of a Weakened Kremlin
Russia's Information Warfare in Africa: Influence Operations in the Sahel
Sino-Indian Competition and Small-State Responses in the Western Indian Ocean: The Cases of the Seychelles and Mauritius
The Digital Radical: Online Extremism, Propagation, and Terror by Design's Strategic Implications for Homeland Security
Navigating Power Play: Sri Lanka’s Strategic Role in Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
A Tilly Comparative Study on State-building in South Vietnam and Afghanistan
Accurate Reading of the Result of the Security Transfer in Vietnam
Sheinbaum’s Dilemma: Mexico’s Security Choices After FTO Designation

Heritage Foundation

Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

China Leadership Monitor, Spring 2026, no. 87

Why Is Xi Still Purging His Generals?
Occidental Fall: Assessing Chinese Views of U.S. Decline
China’s Economic Involution: State and Business Strategies
(Mostly) Old Wine in a New Bottle: What is the CCP’s Overall Strategy for Solving the Taiwan Issue in the New Era?
“The Patient Labor of Assimilation”: China’s Strategies to Create a New “New Territory”
CLM Insights Interview with Fiona S. Cunningham

Hoover Institution

Strategika

no. 103 - Weapons: Quantity Versus Quality

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA)

Breaking Down the Blue UAS List [free but registration required]
Embedded AI in Military Drones Is Redefining Autonomy and Operations

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

Strategic Assessment 2025: Evolving Great Power Competition at Mid-Decade

Institute for Science & International Security

Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

February 26, 2026 - DRC Offensive Kills M23 Leader; Russia Reinforces Sahel
March 5, 2026 - Anti-American Protests in Nigeria; US Sanctions Rwanda; Ethiopia Deepens Involvement in Sudan
Ethiopia Prepares for War
Iran War’s Impact on the Red Sea and Horn of Africa

China & Taiwan Update

Hezbollah’s Limited Options for Supporting Iran
Iran Update

February 23, 2026
February 24, 2026
February 25, 2026
February 26, 2026
February 27, 2026
February 28, 2026 Special Report: US and Israeli Strikes Special Report: US and Israeli Strikes

Evening Special Report, February 28, 2026

March 1, 2026

March 2, 2026

March 3, 2026

March 4, 2026

March 5, 2026

March 6, 2026

March 7, 2026

March 8, 2026

Korean Peninsula Update

North Korea's 9th Party Congress Signals Confidence in Nuclear Deterrence, Rejects Denuclearization and Inter-Korean Talks
Putin's Internet Crackdown Is Rooted in Weakness and a Need to Demand Greater War Sacrifices
Russia’s Quest to Intensify the Theater-Wide Battlefield Air Interdiction Campaign Against Ukraine’s Logistics
Russian Occupation Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

The West Shouldn’t Play Russia’s Game with Ukrainian Elections

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Crisis Group

International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, February 20, 2026, v. 26, no. 4

Technical Analysis Reveals Connected Smart TV Security Risks
PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission
The Low-Altitude Economy’s Great Leap Upward
Recent ILD Activity Suggests Expanded Mandate

Terrorism Monitor February 27, 2026, v. 24, no. 4

Regional Interventions Fail to Contain M23 in Eastern Congo
Security Risks of Centralized Satellite Internet in Junta-Led Sahel States
Impact of Turkish-PKK Peace Process on Iraqi Yezidis
Caucasian Foreign Fighters Confirmed in ISWAP’s Ranks in Nigeria

Jewish Institute for National Security of America

Shields of Achilles and David: A Greece–Israel Defense Architecture

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

A Roadmap for Safety: New Policies to Reduce Gun Violence in Maryland

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

Fading into the Background: From Risk Awareness to Technological Intuition

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

On Theories of Change: Rethinking the Ban Treaty and Disarmament Strategies

Marine Corps University Press

China Military Studies Review, 2026, v. 2

Should Modern Western Militaries Have Political Commissars?

Mediazona

Russian Losses in the War with Ukraine

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework

Mitchell Institute

China Airpower Tracker

Morningstar

Geopolitical Shock in the Gulf Raises Underwriting Volatility Across Insurance Lines

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

Sociocultural Dynamics of the Defense Wargaming Community of Practice

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

NATO Defense College

A New Face of War - Russian Military Strategy Post-Ukraine

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

China Maritime Report #51: The Seafarer Profession in Contemporary China
CMSI Note 20: Flying Higher and Higher: VADM Cui Yuzhong - Moving Up in Complex Times
CMSI Translations #27: What is the Significance of the PLAN Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi Task Force's Distant Deployment to Australia?

Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108

Concurrent Regimes for the Concept of “Common Heritage” in Seabed Mining
AI Warfare and the Law [from 2024 but adding due to the renewed relevance]

International Law Studies, 2026, v. 107 [Artificial Intelligence, War, and International Law]

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Attribution Warfare: How the Woke Left, Fake MAGA and the IRGC Reframed Iran’s Massacre as a Foreign Coup

New America

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Security Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N)

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Japan and Strategic Connectivity: Policies, Partners, and Possibilities

Observer Research Foundation

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

The Case of Greenland: Peace and Security in the Arctic

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

The Sentry

Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

How Can AI Support Language Digitization and Digital Inclusion?

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

The Unfulfilled European Zeitenwende on Russia: Where are We Four Years After the Large-Scale Invasion?

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

End of Mission: Reinventing Closure and Transition Processes in EU Civilian CSDP

Swedish Defence Research Agency

EU Additive Manufacturing Policies Amid Strategic Competition

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

South Korea’s Foreign Policy After Regime Change: The Rise of Pragmatic Diplomacy

Takshashila Institution

A Strategic Assessment of Technology Denial Regimes
State of AI Governance, 2025 (67 slides)

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Backdoor Earmarks in the FY2026 Pentagon Budget

Taylor & Francis

African Security

Meta-Colonial Lingers in African and International Security Politics: Societal (In)Security in Sudan [open access article]

Civil Wars

Even Better Than the Real Thing? Measuring the Multidimensional Reintegration of Graduated Ex-Combatants in Colombia [open access article]

Conflict, Security & Development

Agentive Minorities: Place-Memory, Identity and Ontological Security in Post-War Sri Lanka [open access article]
Empirical Evidence of Direct and Indirect Relations Between Environmental Pressure and Conflict [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

The Politics of “Political Violence”: Terrorism, Violence and the Political [open access article]

Defense & Security Analysis

The Defence Economics of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Classification and Applications [open access article]
Understanding the Factors Facilitating Pro-Russian Disinformation in Slovakia: A Qualitative Case Study of Expert Perspectives [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics

Migration and the Shared World: A Defense of Rights of Entry for Cultural Migrants [open access article]

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Africa’s Clicks to Faith: Digital Religious Practices Among Transnational Nigerian and Zimbabwean Youth in the Diaspora [open access article]
Afterlives of Decolonisation: The Racialisation of West and Central African Migrants in Contemporary Algeria [open access article]
Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Attitudes in Sweden: Patterns of Associations, Attitudinal Profiles, and the Role of Institutional Trust [open access article]
Compelled Exile Performances: The Precarity-Performance-Repression Dynamic for Exile Activists from Bhutan [open access article]
Disinformation as Repression Signaling: The Cost of Dissent in Russia [open access article]
Navigating Continuity and Change: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Religion and Spirituality Among African Youth in the UK [open access article]
Negotiating the Present, Facing the Past: Postcolonial Politics and Transnational Youth Experiences in South Africa [open access article]

Geopolitics

The United States, China, and Strategic Technologies: Domestic Coalitions, Foreign Policy, and Multilateral Cooperation in the Biden Era [open access article]

Global Change, Peace & Security

Reflecting on the Methodological, Ethical, and Epistemic Challenges of Researching Drones in African Battlespaces [open access article]

Journal of Military Ethics

Caritas Pacem Causat: How Can Virtues Serve Peace? [open access article]
Growing Autonomy and the Politics of Moral Responsibility for Military Action [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

Generative AI for Enhanced Risk Management in SMEs [open access article]
Hazard Versus Risk: Clarifying Concepts and Management Implications – Insights from the Bovaer Controversy [open access article]

Policing and Society

Policing the Partnership: Structural Change, Organisational Legitimacy and Police Evaluations of Probation in Public Protection [open access article]

Security Studies

Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other [open access article]
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting [open access article]
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy [open access article]
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Ministry of Defence

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Cyber Stability Conference 2025: Crisis Averted: Cyber Resilience in Action

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

World Drug Report 2019

UN Ukraine

Updated Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Protecting Americans from China-Linked Scam Centers: An Update on Emerging Trends

United States Studies Centre (USSC)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Deterrence and Escalation Dynamics with Iran: Insights from Four Decades of Conflict and a Twelve-Day War

White House

President Trump's Cyberstrategy for America

World Bank

World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development

Friday's Miscellany 02-13-2026 & 02-20-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:02:00 +0000

38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Revitalizing Integrated Tactical Units to Combat West Africa’s Irregular Militant Groups

American Enterprise Institute

Competitive Compliance: Why Uniform Screening Standards Support Innovation and Thwart Regulatory Capture

Army War College - Strategic Studies Institute

Frustrating the Fait Accompli: How Rocket Artillery Changes the Taiwan Situation

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Assetizing, Trading, Franchising: China's Strategy for Building a National Data Economy

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

Sustainment Through Science and Leadership: The 68Rs Contribution to Food Safety and Operational Readiness in LSCO and MDO

Atlantic Council

Australian Army Research Centre

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

From Ballots to Battlefields: Elections without Authority in a Fragmented and Contested Myanmar

Brookings

Canada Department of National Defence

Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy

Prime Minister of Canada Press Release

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Trump, Greenland and the Arctic Is Canada Next on the Menu?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cato Institute

Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

Agentic AI Risk-Management Standards Profile

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Analyses in Security Policy

No. 371: The EU’s Security Partnerships: A Stocktake

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC)

Preparing for a Denied Environment: Building a Resilient PNT Architecture

Chatham House

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)

CNO video

United States Navy Fighting Instructions

Press release

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

China’s Response to Operation Midnight Hammer: Caution or Paralysis?

Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against the Financing of Terrorism (Project CRAAFT)

Terrorist Financing in the Age of Large Language Models

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, February 2026, v. 19, no. 2

From Insurgency to Statecraft: Al-Sharaa and Syria’s Foreign Fighters Test
A View from the CT Foxhole: Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Executive Director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
True Crime Community: Understanding the Depths of Digital Fandom and Performative Violence
Crime and Punishment: How International Cooperation Led to the Landmark Conviction of Two Islamic State Brothers in Portugal

Conference of Defense Associations Institute

Force Development: Sustaining Canada’s Future Submarine Fleet

Congress. Senator Adam Schiff

Armed for Violence: ICE and CBPs Multi-Millions Dollar Surge to Amass Weapons and Munitions

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036

Council on Strategic Risks

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

National Farm Security Action Plan

Department of Defense/War

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-057 Evaluation of the DoD Military Working Dog Program’s Management of Canine Welfare
DODIG-2026-056 The DoD Should Standardize Terminology for Targeting and Adopt Other Targeting Best Practices
DODIG-2026-052 Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on Military Housing
Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR)
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)

Department of State Office of Inspector General

Department of State Office of the Historian

Dragos

2026 OT Cybersecurity Year in Review

Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

International Security and Estonia, 2026

Fairbank Center for China Studies, Harvard University

Targeting Taiwan Under Xi: China’s Military Forest Flourishing Despite Toppling Trees

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Smoke Rings: Changing Dynamics of Europe's Illicit Tobacco Trade since 2022

Google Cloud

Beyond the Battlefield: Threats to the Defense Industrial Base

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Biosafety and Biosecurity: Comparing the U.S. and Selected G20 Members GAO-26-107338
Coast Guard: Additional Actions Needed to Address Reports of Community Discrimination Against Service Members GAO-26-107875
COVID-19 Relief: IRS Can Use Lessons Learned to Address and Prevent Improper Payments in Future Tax Programs GAO-26-107456
COVID-19 Relief: States’ and Localities’ Fiscal Recovery Funds Spending Update for 2025 GAO-26-108587
Department of Energy: Plan Needed to Meet Statutory Requirements for Clean Energy Demonstration Projects GAO-26-107997
DOD Systems Modernization: Further Action Needed to Improve Travel and Other Business Systems [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 9, 2026] GAO-26-107663
National Security Snapshot: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Faces Critical Risks and Opportunities GAO-26-108755
Osprey Aircraft: Additional Oversight and Information Sharing Would Improve Safety Efforts GAO-26-108905
Puerto Rico: Information on Air Cargo Infrastructure and Operations GAO-26-107762
Service Member Absences: Actions Needed to Improve Response Process GAO-26-107505
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Implementing GAO's Recommendations Would Help Manage Fraud Risks in Immigration Benefit Programs GAO-26-108903
U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Resources Deployed and Challenges Faced in Securing the Northern Border GAO-26-107501

Heritage Foundation

As War with China Looms, It Is Time to Restart Large-Scale Military Exercises

Hudson Institute

Flipping the Script: Redesigning the U.S. Air Force for Decisive Advantage

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security and Development Policy

Building Bridges Through Sports: Opportunities for Sweden – Taiwan Collaboration

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

February 12, 2026 Military Buildup in Northern Ethiopia; US-Linked Personnel in the DRC and Nigeria; South Sudan’s Slide to Civil War
February 19, 2026 Madagascar Juggles Russia, US, France; Stuttering US Peace Efforts in Sudan

China & Taiwan Update

February 13, 2026

Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

Russia’s FPV Drone Campaign in Ukraine Institutionalizes Intentional Civilian Harm as a Tool of War
Russian Occupation Update

February 12, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Weakening Hezbollah Requires Faster International Support to Lebanon

International Crisis Group

Kids on the Front Lines: Stopping Child Recruitment in Colombia

International Energy Agency (IEA)

Weather, Climate and Energy Tracker

International Peace Institute (IPI)

UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Policy, Process, and Practice

Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

Build from the Shadows, Not the System – Disruptive Medicine for Denied Battlespaces: A Grounded Framework for Irregular and Clandestine Warfare

Lowy Institute for International Relations

The Global Sovereign Citizen Movement

Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Growing Prosperity: How Agrifood Can Anchor a New “Grand Bargain” Between the United States and Canada

Mercator Institute for China Studies

Orbital Geopolitics: China’s Dual-Use Space Internet

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

A Profile of the Growing Black Immigrant Population in the United States

Milken Institute

Forging Partnerships to Accelerate European Defence Readiness

Munich Security Conference (MSC)

Under Destruction: Munich Security Report 2026

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

German Nuclear Independence from Washington?

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02 Midair Collision over the Potomac River PSA Airlines Flight 5342, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) RJ Aviation CL-600-2C10 (CRJ700), and US Army Priority Air Transport Flight 25, Sikorsky UH-60L

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with Real-World Case Studies

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 3

CMSI Archive Translation: From Yan’an to the United Nations: The Diplomatic Career of Ling Qing
CMSI Archive Translation: The UNCLOS Conferences and China’s Safeguarding of Its Maritime Rights and Interests
CMSI Archive Translation: The Provisional Constitution of Seapower: China’s Participation in UNCLOS Negotiations from Beginning to End
CMSI Archive Translation: Accelerate the Formulation of a National Maritime Strategy and Maritime Basic Law
CMSI Archive Translation: Drawing up a Maritime Basic Law / Protecting Maritime Rights and Interests in Accordance with the Law
CMSI Archive Translation: Thoughts on Advancing Ocean Defense Construction Work in the New Situation
CMSI Archive Translation: New Thinking on Joint Development and Freedom of Navigation in the South China Sea: Paths for Resolving the South China Sea Dispute Based on International Law
CMSI Archive Translation: Philippines Violates Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
CMSI Archive Translation: Summary of the Workshop on “The Current Legal Struggle for Rights and Interests in the South China Sea
CMSI Archive Translation: A Maritime Legal Contest
CMSI Archive Translation: On the Legality of Applying Straight Baselines to China’s Mid-Ocean Archipelagos A Perspective from Customary International Law
CMSI Archive Translation: PRC Coast Guard Law (Draft)
CMSI Archive Translation: Hainan Passes Regulation Allowing Detention of Foreign Ships that Illegally Land on Islands Within Its Jurisdiction
CMSI Archive Translation: An Unforgettable Maritime Contest in the East China Sea: A Partial Account of the Rights Protection/Law Enforcement Operation Following an Incident Involving the Sinking of an Unidentified Foreign Vessel in the East China Sea
CMSI Archive Translation: Research on Requirements and Measures in Civilian Vessel Mobilization for Maritime Rights Protection
CMSI Archive Translation: Research on Civil Wharfs Construction Implementing Maritime Strategic Projection Requirements
CMSI Archive Translation: Legal Problems Regarding the Use of Force in Military Actions at Sea
CMSI Archive Translation: Tasks and Operations of the Maritime Militia When Participating in Maritime Combat
CMSI Archive Translation: Research on Legal Issues Related to Security and Defense of China’s Overseas Military Bases
CMSI Archive Translation: Grasp the New Features of Escort Missions and Strengthen the Effectiveness of Political Work

Network Contagion Research Institute

Niskanen Center

The Case for Enhanced Wage Records: Lessons from States

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Incoming: Chinese Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, A War Game After-Action Report

Observer Research Foundation

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

Understanding the Politics of Transparency: (Un)Making Security Futures with Security Sector Reform

Pew Research Center

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Preventing Violent Extremism: Integration Amid a Funding Crisis

Sentry

Sanctions 2.0: Thwarting the Myanmar Junta’s Rebranding and Cutting Off Their International Enablers

Sol Foundation

Robust Evidence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in Pre-Satellite Era Night-Sky Images

Special Competitive Studies Project

Meet the Architects of the U.S.–India Technology Partnership

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Swisspeace

Search and Criminal Investigations into Enforced Disappearances: Lessons from Argentina, Colombia, and Sri Lanka

Takshashila Institution

Evolution of U.S. Congressional Perspectives Towards India: 1947-2024

Taylor & Francis

Civil Wars

Armed Group Consolidation: Charting a Field of Inquiry [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: The Impact and Mitigation Of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe [open access article]
Governing Threats Through Ambiguity: The Construction of the Dangerous Person in the German Parliamentary Discourse [open access article]
Filling in the Blind Spot? Problematisations of ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ in German Federal-Level P/CVE Policy [open access article]
Radicalisation and the Jurisprudence of Suspicion: Law’s Pre-Criminal Turn and the Collapse Of Evidentiary Thresholds in the UK, France and Germany [open access article]
Two Decades Later, Same Rhetoric: How the Discourse on Terrorism Risks Eroding Human Dignity [open access article]
The United States proscription of Hezbollah: A Critical Discourse Analysis (1985–1997) [open access article]
What Makes an Incel? An Interview Study of Current and Former Incels [open access article]

Defence Studies

A New Autocratic Way of War? Autocracy, Precision Strike Warfare and Civilian Victimization [open access article]
The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO): The Post-Communist Versus Democratic Europe [open access article]
Recruitment to the Swedish All-Volunteer Force – Impact on Quantity and Quality of Recruits [open access article]
Reluctant Middlemen: The Imaginary of Defense Requirements Engineering [open access article]

Defense & Security Analysis

Biodefence as a Challenge to the Global Norms Against Biological and Toxin Weapons: Five Problems and a Potential Solution [open access article]

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Beyond Myanmar’s Borders: The Use of Transnational Repression and Creation of New State Spaces Within ASEAN [open access article]
Neither from Within nor from Without: How States Securitize Diasporas [open access article]
“Offending the Audience: A Normative Account of Democratic Audience Costs” [open access article]
Racial Sensemaking and International Student Mobility: Mainland Chinese Students in Singapore and Malaysia Navigating Multiculturalism and Multiracialism [open access article]
Reframing the Lens: Transnational Youth, Lived Religion and Rethinking Mobility and Transnationalism [open access article]
“They are Paying Taxes.” Local Politicians’ Attitudes Toward Noncitizen Voting in Maryland and Washington, D.C. [open access article]
Transnational Repression in an Age of Global Authoritarianism: Experiences of Uyghur Diaspora Activists in Sweden [open access article]

Geopolitics

Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework [open access article]
The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries? [open access article]
Islands of Solidarity? Migration and Activism in Malta [open access article]
The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border [open access article]
Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Reception and Settlement [open access article]
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe [open access article]
Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland [open access article]
Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway [open access article]
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control [open access article]
‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence [open access article]
Torture Survivors in Asylum – Ignoring the Obvious [open access article]
Ultimate Concessions? Why States Agree to Independence Referendums After Long Wars [open access article]
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts [open access article]

Journal of Applied Security Research

Public Support for the Use of Facial Recognition Technology to Prevent Credit Card Fraud [open access article]

Journal of Political Ideologies

France and Algeria: Ideas of the Nation in the French Political Elite Discourse 1954–1956 [open access article]

Security Studies

Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Ahmed Sharif as-Sanūsi and irregular warfare in North Africa, 1902–1917 [open access article]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars [open access article]
Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An In-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files [open access article]
Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency [open access article]

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Fact Sheet: Fast Facts about the Golden Dome

Toda Peace Institute

UK Parliament House of Commons Library

UK Parliament House of Lords Library

Resetting the UK-EU Relationship: House of Lords European Affairs Committee Report

United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

Australia’s Innovation, Science and Technology Environment: Providing a Rationale for Universities’ Contributions to AUKUS Advanced Capabilities

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

A “Good Deal” with Iran? Requirements for Preventing a Future Nuclear Breakout

White House

Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Iran

Fact Sheet

Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy

Fact Sheet

Modifying Duties to Address Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 02-06-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:33:00 +0000

38 North

American Security Project (ASP)

Amnesty International

Ringing the Alarm Bells: Rising Authoritarian Practices and Erosion of Human Rights in the United States

Arctic Institute

The Arctic Institute's China Series Report 2025

What if? "Strategic Competition" vs. "Selective Cooperation"
A Grand Illusion: America's Anti-China Arctic Policy Is Rooted in Paranoia and Political Bias, Not Strategic Reality
Alaska, not Greenland, should worry the United States in the Arctic
A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptual Divergences in Russia-China Relations: The Case of the Northern Sea Route
Navigating Uncertainty: China-Russia Arctic Security Cooperation in a
Game-Theoretic Framework
From the Indus to the Ice: China, Pakistan, and Lessons for Arctic Engagement
Soft Snow Dragon: China's Arctic Policy Legitimation Discourses between 2012 and 2019
China's Adaptive Diplomacy and Economic Statecraft in a Fragmented Arctic Order
China's Arctic Strategy and Hybrid Warfare: Targeting Governance and Strategic Responses
China's Strategic Role in Arctic Environmental Governance Under the Climate-Sceptic Trump 2.0 Administration
Sino-Russian Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Far East and Arctic: From "Border Economic Belt" to "Strategic Cooperation Engine"
China's Digital Footprint in the Arctic: The Strategic Role of Satellite and Subsea Cable Infrastructure
Dig, Baby, Dig? China's Mineral Dominance and Ripple Effects into the Arctic
Charting New Waters: China's Role in the Arctic Fisheries Agreement and Arctic Research
Dispatch from Guangzhou: Stabilizing US-China Relations in the Arctic

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), December 2025, v. 32, no. 12

Update: Cold Weather Injuries Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces, July 2020–June 2025
Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Active Component Service Members and Civilians, 2013–2023
Update: Diagnoses of Mental Health Disorders Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2020–2024
Perinatal Mental Health Conditions Among U.S. Active Component Service Women, 2016–2022
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 36, Ending September 6, 2025

Atlantic Council

Local and Community-Driven Solutions for Development in Fragile States
A New Arctic Strategy for Sweden
Operationalizing a Cybersecurity Strategy for the United States

Part I—Operations
Part II—Scaling Resilience Through Safe Coding and Trusted Architectures

Sweden’s Role in Countering Hybrid Threats in the Baltic Sea Region
Trump Tariff Tracker
The US Needs a Cybersecurity Roadmap

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Securing Australia: Insights in Counterterrorism: Views from The Strategist

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Decoding Recent Immigration to the US

Blair Institute for Global Change

Sovereignty in the Age of AI: Strategic Choices, Structural Dependencies and the Long Game Ahead

Brookings Institution

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

A Quarter Century of Nuclear South Asia: Nuclear Noise, Signaling, and the Risk of Escalation in India-Pakistan Crises

Cato Institute

Center for Data Innovation

How the Brussels Effect Hinders Innovation in the Global South

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

Toward Risk Thresholds for AI-Enabled Cyber Threats: Enhancing Decision-Making Under Uncertainty with Bayesian Networks

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Physical AI: A Primer for Policymakers on AI-Robotics Convergence

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center on Global Energy Policy

Assessing US Government Efforts to Support Fossil Fuel–Reliant Communities /

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Americans Oppose Ceding the Donbas to Russia Amid Push for Peace Deal

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Conference of Defense Associations Institute

Force Development: The Strategic and Operational Role of Autonomous Systems

Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Democrats

Operation Metro Surge: How Federal Enforcement Let to the Killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti

Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Democrats

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance: How Innovation Can Secure U.S. Supply Chains

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Department of Defense/War

Contingency Plan Guidance for Continuation of Operations in the Absence of Available Appropriations [updated January 2026]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-047 DoD Policy and Training on Dissemination Controls for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)

Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

Roadmap for Cooperation between the EUAA and Serbia (2024-2027)

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

After Erdogan: Who Will Control Turkey?

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

George Washington University Program on Extremism

The Egyptian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America: Yesterday and Today

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Russia's Violent Assets: Chechen Organized Crime Groups in Germany

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Address Challenges that Hinder Maritime Security Operations GAO-26-108901
Defense Budget: Effects of Continuing Resolutions on Selected Activities and Programs Critical to DOD’s National Security Mission [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 4, 2026] GAO-26-107065
Defense Research and Engineering: Action Needed to Improve Management and Oversight of Technology Investments GAO-26-107664
DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Properly Account for All General Equipment That Contractors Hold GAO-26-107442
Federal Custody: Bureau of Prisons and ICE Should Take Actions to Improve Access to Menstrual Products GAO-26-107694
Federal Shared Services: Adoption Challenges Underscore the Need for Consistent Leadership GAO-26-108014
Law Enforcement Officers: Observations on Recruitment and Retention at the Federal, Tribal, State, and Local Levels GAO-26-108495
Missile Warning Satellites: Space Development Agency Should Be More Realistic and Transparent About Risks to Capability Delivery [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 2, 2026] GAO-26-107085
Rare Diseases: Funding for Rare Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Access to ALS Investigational Drugs GAO-26-107691
Street Drug Analysis: Factors Affecting the Detection and Identification of Emerging Substances GAO-26-107763
Transforming Aviation: FAA Planning Efforts Should Address How Drones Will Communicate with and Avoid Other Aircraft GAO-26-107648

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Who Gets Aid in a Resource-Constrained Environment: Lessons from Our WFP Evaluation on Targeting and Prioritization

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Lessons from the Jungle for the Zoo: Support Ukraine, Help Ourselves | Key Findings Ukraine Visit

Henry L. Stimson Center

Emerging Trends in the Trump Approach to Security Cooperation

Heritage Foundation

Limited Nuclear War Over Taiwan: An Initial Exercise

Hudson Institute

The $550 Billion US-Japan Strategic Industrial Fund: Recommendations from the Private Sector

Institute for Science and International Security

North Korean Probable High Explosive Test Sites

IJ Infinity Group

Military Strategy Magazine, Winter 2026, v. 10, no. 4

AI Command and Staff—Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming
Attacking Russia’s Center of Gravity: A Clausewitzian Answer
Warfare of Position: When the Decisive Struggle Precedes the First Shot
British Special Forces in the 2030s: UKSF, ‘Special Operations’ and ‘NATO First’
How the Congolese Wazalendo Illustrate the Importance of Strategy
Informational Coercion and the Defense of Democracy

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

Understanding Space Frontier Areas: Strategy in Cislunar Space and Beyond

Institute for Security and Development Policy

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

February 5, 2026 Boko Massacre in Nigeria; Ethiopia on the Brink; M23 Drone Attack; IS Attacks Niamey

China & Taiwan Update

Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

February 3, 2026

Russian Occupation Update

February 5, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Japan and Strategic Connectivity: Policies, Partners, and Possibilities

International Crisis Group

Seven Peace and Security Priorities for Africa in 2026

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Infrastructure of Insecurity: Deterring Maritime Incidents in the Malacca Straits

Jamestown Foundation

Harnessing the People: Mapping Overseas United Front Work in Democratic States

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

The Special Forces Identity Crisis and Rethinking All of Special Operations

Munich Security Conference (MSC)

Mind the Deterrence Gap: Assessing Europe’s Nuclear Options

Mitchell Institute

Strategic Attack: Maintaining the Air Force’s Capacity to Deny Enemy Sanctuaries

MITRE

Moms Across America (MAA)

US Military Meals Contaminated with Toxic Pesticides, Banned Veterinary Drugs, Heavy Metals

National Academies Press

Creating a Guide to Advance the Art and Science of Decision-Making

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

The Coming War in America

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

The NextGen Information Environment

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

CMSI Note 19: China’s Blue-Water Research Fleet: Science in Service of Strategy
CMSI Translations 26: Sea Dragon Refits Its Armor: The Type 076 Amphibious Assault Ship Ushers in a New Era

Observer Research Foundation

Oxford University Press (OUP) [open access book]

Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research

Project88

Hanoi is Planning for a 2nd American Invasion: US Policy Heightening Tensions and Fueling Repression

RAND Corporation

Countering Russia-style Autocracy in Georgia
Developing a Risk-Scoring Tool for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Biological Design: A Method to Assess the Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence to Modify Select Viral Capabilities
Governing the Unknown: Insights from a RAND Workshop on Managing Polycrises and Catastrophic Risk
Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work
Manpower Analysis to Improve the Functional Alignment and Organizational Structure of Space Training and Readiness Command Headquarters
Mapping Terror: Using Systems Analysis to Integrate Political, Social & Behavioral Drivers to Explain Extremists’ Violence
Meeting the Needs of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Community
Old Priorities, New Contexts: The Institutional Roots and New Developments of China’s Rare Earth Policy
Surveying Duality in Space

Volume I, Americas Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems
Volume II, Europe-Eurasia Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems
Volume III, Indo-Pacific Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Small Arms Survey

A History of Outsourced Violence: The Rise of the Rapid Support Forces, Libyan National Army, and Wagner Group

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Strategic Positional Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?

Swedish Defence Research Agency

The Future of Warfare in Russian Military Thinking

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

The Institutional Consequences of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy

Takshashila Institution

India Must Architect Sectoral Plurilateral Blocs to Overcome Geopolitical Coercion

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Missing the Mark: Why Golden Dome is Bad for American Taxpayers

Taylor & Francis

Defense & Security Analysis

Restricted Deterrence by Denial: Japan’s Military Role in a Taiwan Contingency [open access]

Policing and Society

A Matter of Trust? Policing Violence Against Women and Girls [open access]

Security Studies

Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use [open access]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Frontline State Security: Rebel Movements and Cover States in Southern Africa, 1970–1990 [open access]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Government

Countering Illegal Use of UAS Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites

UK Parliament House of Commons Library

Iran Protests 2026: UK and International Response

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

World Bank

Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Common Future

Friday's Miscellany 01-23-2026 & 01-30-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:38:00 +0000

38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Steady, Not Soaring, Chinese Investment in 2025

Americans for Responsible Innovation

Competitive Compliance: Why Uniform Screening Standards Support Innovation and Thwart Regulatory Capture

Arctic Institute

Dispatch from Guangzhou: Stabilizing US-China Relations in the Arctic

Arms Control Association

Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Recommendations from Civil Society for Addressing Challenges Over the Next Five Years

Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

Cyber Defense Review, 2025, v. 10, no.3

What Comes Next? Alternative Futures for U.S. Cyber Forces
Answer This Before Changing U.S. Cyber Command or Adding a Cyber Service
A New Cyber Service is Not the Answer
Beyond the Uniform: Reconnecting the Nation’s Cyber Force
Evolution of U.S. Cyber Command since 2018
”Go Big”: Cyber Force Large
Military Function, Form, and History’s Lessons for Cyber Forces
Gaming Campaigning in Cyberspace
Support and Leverage Auxiliaries for Stronger Cyber Defense
U.S. Cyber Command Evolution and the Increasing Role of the Private Sector
Evaluating Alternative Models for Organizing U.S. Cyber Forces
Built for Land, Not Cyber
Why Culture Matters: Organizational Culture and Force Generation for the Cyber Domain
Reclaiming the Cyber Domain: Revising U.S. Doctrine to Treat Cyberspace as Battlespace and Not a Function
Breaking the "Cyber" Cage: Reinventing Cyber Command for Great Systems Conflict
Bring Cyber to the Tactical Edge: The Case for Decommissioning USCYBERCOM
Reform or Replace: The Strategic Dilemma of U.S. Cyber Forces

Asia Society Policy Institute

‘Trade is in our Blood’: Momentum Builds in Asia for Expanding Rules-based Economic Cooperation

Atlantic Council

Australian Government Defence

Defence Corporate Plan

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Brookings

Bruegel

Canada. Department of National Defence

Canadian Military Journal, Spring 2025, v. 25 no. 2

Conceptualizing Human Security
Human Security in an Age of Great Power Competition: Implications for the Canadian Armed Forces
NATO Research Task Group 382: Human Security and Military Operations
Implementation of the Vancouver Principles
Culture Wars: Towards a Formal Cultural Heritage Protection Capability for the Canadian Armed Forces
NATO Article 5 and Human Security Interventions
Keep them Out: The European Union’s Externalization Policies on Refugees
A Durable Solution for Haiti: Rebuilding with Human-Centric Security
Human Security Expertise in Civil-Military Cooperation
International Approaches to Human Security
Human Security and CAF Senior Leader Professional Development
The Future of Peace and Security: An Interview with Lieutenant-General (retired) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cato Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

High Stakes in the High North: Harnessing Uncrewed Capabilities for Arctic Defense and Security

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

When AI Builds AI: Findings from a Workshop on Automation of AI R&D

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Breaking the Final Frontier: Cyber Operations Against the Space Sector. Evidence from the Gaza War and Beyond
Caucasus Analytical Digest

No. 145: Disinformation in Georgia

Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)

No. 16: Journalists, Social Media and News Consumption

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Can Hungary's Opposition Win and Restore Democracy?

Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT)

Defence Against Terrorism Review, v. 2, 2025

Impact of the Cryptocurrencies and FinTech Innovations on Terrorist Financing Risks
Brand Archetypes and the Terrorist Organizations: The Case of Daesh
Beyond the Euro-Atlantic: Colombia’s Path to NATO Global Partnership

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Growing Partisan Divide on U.S. Foreign Policy

Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

When Law Enforcement Looks Like Occupation: How Federal Immigration Surge in Operation Midway Blitz Impacts Chicago (Testimony Slides)

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

U.S. Revolution in Military Affairs and Japan: The Case of Japan Acquiring the Joint Direct Attack Munition

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Everything on the Table - Three part series on US security and trade policy under Trump 2.0

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Estimating the Costs of Troop Deployments to U.S. Cities

Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)

Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update

Prior Years

Council on Foreign Relations

America Revived: A Grand Strategy of Resolute Global Leadership

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Danish Defence Intelligence Service

Intelligence Outlook 2025

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

American Ambitions in Greenland Pose Key Dilemmas for the Kingdom of Denmark in NATO

Defense Priorities

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Artificial Intelligence Compliance Plan

Department of Defense/War

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-045 Immediate Attention Required to Protect DoD Covered Assets Against Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
DODIG-2026-044 Audit of the DoD’s Procedures to Ensure the Accuracy of the Pay to Remote Work Employees
DODIG‑2026‑043 Audit of the Army’s Administration of Noncompetitive Contracts in Support of Ukraine
DODIG-2026-041 Annual Report to Congress as Required by Section 554 of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory Library

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

OIG-26-02 Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security (MMPC)

Department of Labor

Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory

Department of State Inspector General

ISP-I-26-03 Review of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs’ Efforts to Advance United Nations Management Reform

Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

Beyond the Jihadist Label: Understanding the ADF’s Multilayered Violence

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Living with Friction: Three Anchors of the EU-India Partnership

EUROPOL

Diversification in Maritime Cocaine Trafficking Modi Operandi

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

George Washington University Program on Extremism

The Egyptian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America: Yesterday and Today

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

When Home Becomes Uninhabitable: Planned Relocations as a Global Challenge in the Era of Climate Change

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Accessing Airports: Available Public Transit Options and Efforts to Promote Their Use GAO-26-107817
Border Security: Improvements Needed to Increase Vehicle Scanning at Land Ports of Entry GAO-26-108767
Coast Guard: Inspector General Oversight of the Coast Guard and Other Military Services GAO-26-108639
Coast Guard Oversight: Actions Needed to Strengthen Collaboration on Investigations GAO-26-107341
Defense Budget: Effects of Continuing Resolutions on Selected Activities and Programs Critical to DOD’s National Security Mission GAO-26-107065
DOD Systems Modernization: Further Action Needed to Improve Travel and Other Business Systems GAO-26-107663
Federal Prisons: Improvements Needed to the System Used to Assess and Mitigate Incarcerated People’s Recidivism Risk GAO-26-107268
Federal Telework: Social Security Administration Needs a Plan to Maintain a Workforce with the Skills Needed to Provide Timely Service GAO-26-107645
Homelessness: Agency Actions Could Improve Data on Shelter Program Use GAO-26-107502
Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Oversight and Prevent Instructor Sexual Misconduct GAO-26-107524
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: DOD and DHS Should Update Guidance to Evaluate Instructor Recruitment and Pay GAO-26-107709
Missile Warning Satellites: Space Development Agency Should Be More Realistic and Transparent About Risks to Capability Delivery GAO-26-107085
National Institutes of Health: Assessing Efforts to Improve Animal Research Could Lead to Greater Human Health Benefits [Reissued with revisions on Jan. 29, 2026] GAO-25-107140
Research Security: Agencies Should Assess Safeguards Against Discrimination GAO-26-107544
Small Business Research Programs: Additional Actions Needed to Incorporate Best Practices for Addressing Foreign Risks GAO-26-107972
Southwest Border: CBP Should Improve Oversight of Medical Care for Individuals in Custody GAO-26-107425
Supply Chain Security: Actions Needed to Improve CBP Management of the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Program GAO-26-107893
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Actions Still Needed to Improve Planning and Management of Its Native American Law Enforcement Unit GAO-26-108546
Ukraine: U.S. State Department Has Taken Steps to Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation of Assistance GAO-26-107860
Weather Safety: Agencies Face Challenges Related to Multilingual Weather Alerts, and AI Project Needs Better Planning GAO-26-107680

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Henry L. Stimson Center

Harnessing AI to Move from Threat to Threat Reduction

Heritage Foundation

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

Rethinking Political Transitions in Today’s Latin America

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

Strategic Assessment, March 2026, v. 29, no. 1

The IDF’s Missing Piece: Projecting Power with an Expeditionary Command
Symposium: Iran’s Involvement in the African Continent—Regional and Global Contexts and Implications for Israel

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security and Development Policy

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Institute for the Study of War

China & Taiwan Update

The Days of the Iranian Regime Are Numbered
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

Russian Occupation Update

January 30, 2026

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

The Syrian Government Cannot Immediately Replace the SDF as a Counter-ISIS Partner in Northeastern Syria
Xi Jinping’s Military Purges Leave Him Increasingly Powerful but Isolated

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

International Crisis Group

After the “Golden Era”: Getting Bangladesh-India Ties Back on Track

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief
January 10, 2025, v. 26, no. 1

Xi Projects Confidence in Shorter New Year’s Speech
PLA Justice Mission 2025 Further Rehearses Taiwan Invasion Operations
Beijing Accelerates Clearance of ‘Naked Officials’ from Top Ranks
Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions
CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

January 24, 2025, v. 26, no. 2

Sodium Supply Chain Emerges to Support Lithium Alternatives
EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability
Pickleball Diplomacy Links U.S. Students to CCP
Purges, Training Reform Affected Pressure on Taiwan in 2025

Terrorism Monitor, December 4, 2025, v. 23, no. 10

Militias Assist PRC-Based Ventures Mining Rare Earth Elements in Myanmar
Nigerian Jihadists and Bandits Exploit Emerging Fintech
New Iran-Backed Militia Assassinates TV Anchor in Pakistan
M23 Leverages Taxes and Minerals to Sustain DRC Operations

Jewish Institute for National Security of America

Syria’s Kurdish Crisis: An Overview of Escalation

JFK Special Warfare Center and School

Special Warfare, v. 38, no. 1, Summer 2025

Perspectives from the Force: No More Hot-Dogging
Operators Wanted: SORB Navigating the Recruiting Challenges Facing the Army
Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center: Transformation and Modernization
Digital Twins for a Digital World: Data-Driven Training Optimizing the Ready Medical Force
Austere Resuscitative and Surgical Care Teams: Supporting Far-Forward Trauma Care on the Future Battlefield
Drop, Improvise, Win: The OSS in China
The Algebra of Irregular Warfare: A Planning Methodology for Transregional Operations
Understanding and Mitigating Subterranean Operational Threats on Human Health and Performance: The Fatigue-Hormone-Mood Triad
Transforming Dental Support to the U.S. Army Special Operations Center of Excellence
Going Above and Beyond the Battlefield: Elevating Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations in the SOFSpace-Cyber Triad
Mission Command: Trust, Empowerment, and the Future Force
Perspectives: Optimizing Time and Task Prioritization for Special Forces Training and Educa􀆟on
Fractured Brotherhood: Suicide, Identity Loss, and the Crisis within U.S. Special Operations Forces
Who We Are, What We Do: Framing the Special Forces Identity Debate
Pursuing Higher Education: New Degree Pathways for Civil Affairs Special Operations Combat Medics

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA)

Latvian Foreign and Security Policy. Yearbook 2026

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

MITRE

National Academies Press

National Bureau of Asian Research

China’s Great Waiting Game in Afghanistan

National Defence University {Helsinki)

Chinese-Russian Military Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s: Towards True Joint Capabilities or Merely Transactional Great Power Politics

Network Contagion Research Institute

Assassination Culture: How Shifting Gender Patterns Signal a New National Instability

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Observer Research Foundation

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Trump Administration Science and Technology Highlights: Year One

Our World in Data

Could Biofuels Meet Demand for Global Aviation?

Oxford University Press (OUP) [open access books]

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

The European Union and the War in Ukraine: More Money, But Not More Europe

Pew Research Center

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

US Trusted Semiconductors and the Role of Europe

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Scale AI

The Agentic Revolution in War: The Present and Future of Decision Advantage

Scandinavian Military Studies

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2026, v. 9, no. 1

An Evidence-Based Framework for NATO’s Human Security Approach
Introduction to the Special Collection on Military Logistics: The Transformation from Peace Support Operations to Territorial Defence
Educational Initiative Using Simulation Training for the Evolving Landscape of Hybrid Warfare and Its Devastating Impacts: A Scoping Review
Rethinking Contemporary (Counter)Piracy: Lessons from the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Guinea

Soufan Center

The War in Sudan: The Role of External Actors and the Prospects for U.S.-Led Conflict Resolution

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Future-proofing Civilian CSDP in a Challenging Strategic Environment: Seven Questions for Debate

Swedish Defense Research Agency

“Spies Among Us”: Espionage in Europe – A Study on Convicted Spies in Europe 2008–2024

Takshashila Institution

High Politics in China: Assessing Politburo Meetings and Study Sessions in 2025

Taylor & Francis

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

Civil Wars

Reconciling Rebel Rule: Wartime Order and the Social Legacies of Rebel Governance in Sri Lanka [open access]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Defence and Peace Economics

Ethics & Global Politics

Migration and the Shared World: A Defense of Rights of Entry for Cultural Migrants [open access]

Global Crime

Ideological Affinity, State Toleration and the Transnational Expansion of the Far-Right Russian Imperial Movement [open access]

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

Policing and Society

Security Studies

Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting [open access]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

‘I do solemnly promise … ’ the IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice [open access]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Influences of Islamist Radicalization: A Configurational Analysis of Balkan Foreign Fighters in Syria [open access]
Lethal Words: An Integrated Model of Violent Extremists’ Language [open access]
Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism in Wonderland and the Northern Ireland Peace Process [open access]
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate [open access]
Visible Politics and Invisible Tactics: The Use of Uniforms in Asymmetric Conflicts [open access]

Toda Peace Institute

UK House of Commons Library

UK Ministry of Defence

AJP-4 Allied Joint Doctrine for Sustainment of Operations

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Afghanistan Drug Use Assessment

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

China’s Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

U.S. District Court - District of Columbia

Brief of Amici Curiae Former Service Secretaries, Retired Senior Military officers, and Vet Voice Foundation in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion [Sen. Mark Kelly] for a Preliminary Injunction and Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705

United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 01-09-2026 & 01-16-2026

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38 North

North Korea’s Initial Reaction to US Operations in Venezuela

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Africa’s 2026 Elections: Navigating Complexity to Deliver for Citizens

American Enterprise Institute

Annual Wealth Estimates for China

American Foreign Service Association

At the Breaking Point: The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), October 2025, v. 32, no. 10

Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Among Service Members and Other Beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2019–2024
Seasonal Influenza Hospitalization Incidence Rates Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2010–2024
The Association Between Body Mass Index, Physical Fitness and COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Male Active Duty U.S. Army Soldiers, May 2020–November 2021
Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Following COVID-19 Infection or Vaccination in Active Component U.S. Military Service Women, 2021–2023
Strategies for Forecasting Long COVID in the Active Component U.S. Military
Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 31, Ending August 2, 2025

Army War College

Asia Society Policy Institute

Enhancing the Quad’s Cybersecurity Cooperation to Counter Chinese Cyberattacks

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

We Cannot Wait: Three Imperatives for Industry Partners as the Army Transforms

Atlantic Council

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

Super Chips and Supply Chains: Europe’s Semiconductor Paradox of Geoeconomic Entanglement

Baltic Defence College

Journal on Baltic Security [open access], December 2025, v. 11, no. 2

A Eurasian Paradigm of Intelligent Warfare? – How China and Russia Perceive AI’s Impact on Military Power
From the Analogue Warrior to the Algorithmic Strategist: The Evolution of Military Training through Artificial Intelligence
Human Interoperability Through Professional Military Education: Standardised Mental Models as Enablers for Data-Centric Warfighting
Gender Equality in AI-Supported Military Education: Literature Insights and Evidence from Turkish Institutions
Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders: Human-AI Collaboration Patterns for Professional Military Education

Brookings Institution

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Wartime Assistance to Ukraine: The Successes, Failures, and Future Prospects of US and EU Support Models

Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)

The Foundation Model Transparency Index

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Artificial Intelligence Patent Clusters [data snapshot]

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Technology at the Negotiating Table: Can AI Enhance Peace Processes in Africa?

Chatham House

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, January 2026, v. 19, no. 1

Kachallas and Kinship: Understanding Jihadi Expansion and Diffusion in Nigeria
Feature Commentary: Red Teaming Hamas’ Options
A New ‘Regicides’ Era? Analyzing Trends in Terrorism Threats Against European Elected Officials
From Adolescence to Accountability: Prosecuting Teenagers for Terrorist-related Offenses in Europe

Congress. House. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

China’s Global Fishing Offensive: How China’s Fishing Fleet Monopolizes Food Around the World

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense/War

Press Release

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG‑2026‑040 Evaluation of the DoD’s Development and Implementation of Quantum Technologies
DODIG-2026-039 Audit of the DoD’s Oversight of Contractor Performance for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Sustainment Contracts

Department of the Navy (DON)

Class ‘A’ - Mishaps - FY25

Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

How Do Women in Niger Crush the Glass Ceiling?

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

Bracing for a Cold Front: Assessing Russian and Chinese Strategic Objectives and Hybrid Threat Capabilities in the Arctic

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

The Dragon in the Grid: Limiting China’s Influence in Europe’s Energy System

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

The Limits of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Balancing: Domestic Authoritarianism and Linkages to Russia

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Civilian Telework and Remote Work: DOD Should Evaluate Programs in Relation to Department Goals GAO-26-107601
Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Address Law Enforcement Mission Challenges GAO-26-108847
Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Ensure Complete and Timely Reports to Congress Regarding Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment GAO-26-108571
Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Improve Maritime Interdictions GAO-26-107440
Coast Guard: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Reform Efforts to Address Sexual Misconduct GAO-26-107685
Combating Fraud: Approaches to Evaluate Effectiveness and Demonstrate Integrity GAO-26-107609
Commercial Aviation: Trends in Air Service to Small Communities [Reissued with revisions on Jan. 9, 2026] GAO-24-106681
Consumer Protection: Expeditious Actions Needed to Implement a Government-wide Strategy and Related Efforts to Counter Scams GAO-26-108842
Federal Awards: Selected Programs Did Not Fully Include Identified Practices to Enhance Oversight and Fraud Prevention GAO-26-107444
Food Safety: Further Action Needed to Implement Foodborne Illness Prevention Law and Assess Its Results GAO-26-107394
Fraud and Improper Payments: Data Quality and a Skilled Workforce Are Essential for Realizing Artificial Intelligence’s Benefits GAO-26-108850
Freshwater Supply: Interior Should Continue to Identify Improvements to the Large-Scale Water Recycling Program GAO-26-107888
Navy Shipbuilding: Improving Warfighter Engagement and Tools for Operational Testing Could Increase Timeliness and Usefulness GAO-26-108781
Terrorist Watchlist: FBI Should Improve Outreach Efforts to Nonfederal Users GAO-26-108650
Tribal Programs: Information on Freedmen Descendants of the Five Tribes GAO-26-107118
VA Disability Benefits: Progress Made but VA Decisions on Veterans’ Claims Continue to Be Based, in Part, on Outdated Criteria GAO-26-108844
West Bank and Gaza: State's Reporting on UN Efforts to Address Problematic Textbook Content Had Gaps Before Funding Ended GAO-26-107708

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Hudson Institute

Institute for Science and International Security

Recent Satellite Imagery shows the Construction of a Concrete Sarcophagus over Taleghan 2

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

January 8, 2026: Israel Recognizes Somaliland; US ISIS Strikes in Nigeria; JNIM Attacks US Gold Mine in Mali
January 15, 2026: Somalia Cancels UAE Agreements; Sudan-Pakistan Arms Deal

China-Taiwan Weekly Update

Interactive Time-lapse: Protests in Iran
Iran Protests

Indicators of Iranian Regime Instability
Iran Update

Korean Peninsula Update

January 13, 2026

Russia’s Non-Response to US Actions in Venezuela Reveal a Kremlin Balancing Act
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Syrian Government Offensive Forces Syrian Kurdish Group to Capitulate

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

How to Fund European Ambitions?

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Crisis Group

Undoing Haiti’s Deadly Gang Alliance

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Lawless Seas, Contested Shores - Piracy, Smuggling and the Scramble for Port Access in the Horn of Africa

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

How to Predict China’s Intentions

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

The Emotionally Intelligent Leader: Applying the R.E.A.D. Technique in Military Leadership

Marine Corps University Press

Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Fall 2025, v. 16, no. 2

Achtung—Swarm!: A Proposal for Swarm Maneuver Groups
Strategic Vulnerabilities in Space: U.S.-China Militarization and the Risks to Global Strategic Stability
Conscientious Centaurs: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Human-Machine Teaming, and Moral Enmeshment
The Lawful Losers?: Why Democracies Struggle to Deter Cyber Aggression
Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Military Decision-Making Process: The Forgotten Lessons on the Nature of War
Synthesizing Strategic Frameworks for Great Power Competition
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. Military Strategy in Proxy Wars, 2020–2024
Beyond Linear Planning: How Artificial Intelligence Multiagent Systems Can Redefine Operational Art and Decision Making in Warfare
Strategic Implications of Emerging Weapon Technologies: Kinetic Bombardment, Antimatter, and Antigravity Technology for U.S. National Security

Ready or Not: The Military Readiness Paradox

Mercator Institute for China Studies

China’s Long View on Quantum Tech has the US and EU Playing Catch-Up

Middle East Institute

From Crude to Compute: Building the GCC AI Stack

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

MITRE

Building PACE Capabilities for the Current Threat Environment

National Academies Press

National Defence University (Pakistan)

Margalla Papers 2025, 29, v. no. 2

Indo-US Strategic Alignment in the Indo-Pacific: Challenges and Choices for Pakistan
Sino-Indian Military and Border Disputes Including the 1962 War: Implications and Lessons for Pakistan
Artificial Intelligence as New Capital: Geoeconomic Competition and Reshaping of Global Order
Great Power Rivalry in a Changing International Order
Reframing Contemporary Security: The Conflict Severity Mapping Framework (CSMF) and the Dynamics of Global Conflict
China’s Slow Consumption and the International Trade Barriers: Implications for the Export-Led Model of Economic Growth
From Treaty to Weapon: Hybrid Coercion and The Suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty In 2025
Discourse Analysis of Gaza’s Children: Their Voices and Their Portrayal
Modi Government’s Hybrid Strategic Posture: Implications for National Security of Pakistan

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

Journal of Policy & Strategy, 2025, v. 5, no. 4

Putin’s New START Offer: We Won’t Get Fooled Again
Time To End New START: The Treaty Is Not in America’s Security Interest
Understanding China and U.S. Opportunities
DIMET: Reconfiguring Global Power in the Techno-Strategic Age
Competing on the Periphery: A New Approach to the Arctic
Interview with Ambassador Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) on Missile Defense Trends
Implications of the Middle East Conflict on Deterrence and Nonproliferation, July 2025
A New Strategic Review for a New Age: 2025, August 2025

U.S. Nuclear Weapon Testing? First Ask the Right Questions

National Security Agency(NSA) / Central Security Service (CSS)

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

CMSI Note 18: Flooding the Zone: The Use of Civilian Landing Craft (LCTs) in PLA Amphibious Operations

New America

Threat Complacency and Nuclear Risk: Addressing Old Threats in a New Era

Observer Research Foundation

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Building Resilience Through Disaster Risk Management in Intermediary Cities

Our World in Data

How Have Crime Rates in the United States Changed Over the Last 50 Years?

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

You Only Live Twice: Financial Inflows and Growth in a Westward-facing Ukraine

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Prospects and Problems for Reinvigorating Superpower Nuclear Cooperation

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), January 2026, v. 18, no. 1

Global Threat Assessment
The Reshaped Terrorist Threat in the Middle East in 2025
Key Trends in Digital Extremism 2025: Globalisation, Decentralisation, and Ideological Hybridisation in Southeast Asia
Weaponising Discontent: Islamist Extremist Narratives Amid 2025 Global Conflicts
Western Far Right Terrorism in 2025 and Beyond

China’s Strategic Design and Cautious Calibration of Rare Earth Leverage

Small Arms Survey

A History of Outsourced Violence: The Rise of the Rapid Support Forces, Libyan National Army, and Wagner Group

Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Takshashila Institution

Taylor & Francis

African Security

Federalism and Policing in Nigeria: Colonial Continuities and Contemporary Complexities [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: The Impact and Mitigation of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe [open access article]

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2026

Gendered Transnational Impunity and Infrastructural Violence on the Migrant Journey through Mexico [open access article]

Geopolitics

The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’: Reimagining Small State Agency and Sovereignty Amid Sino-Indian Hegemonic Competition in the Indian Ocean [open access article]

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Development of a Crisis Negotiation Database in The Netherlands: Insights for Implementing Intelligence-Led Policing Systems [open access article]
Integrating Safety, Order and Duty of Care in Public Space Foot Patrols [open access article]
The Regulation of Terrorist Online Content in Africa: An Overview of the Applicable Regional Instruments and the Legal Frameworks of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria [open access article]
Rethinking Counterterrorism: Targeting Organisational Incentives, Not Just Attacks [open access article]
Uncovering Salafi Jihadist Terror Activity Through Advanced Technological Tools [open access article]

Journal of Risk Research

A Brief History of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives in Risk Science and Data Analytics [open access article]
Echoes of the Earthquake: Evidence-Based Suggestions for the Management of Psychological Consequences of Earthquakes [open access article]
Empowering Earthquake Risk Management: A Proposal for Incorporating TQM (Total Quality Management) Into Disaster Reduction and Recovery [open access article]
The Impact of Information on Fossil Fuel Beliefs and Risk-Benefit Perception: Results from an Intervention Study [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

The Deterrence-Provocation Continuum in the Context of Russian Strategic Culture: Hypersensitivity, Holism-Conspiracism, and Sacred Great Power Status [open access article]
A Second Chance: The Unipolar Moment and the Creation of a UN Permanent Military [open access article]

Policing and Society

Be(a)ware of the Dog: The Symbolic-Disciplinary Functions of Drug Detection Dogs in English Music Festivals [open access article]
Organisational Justice in Online Harms Management in UK Police Services: Enacting a Feminist Ethics of Care [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

Assessing Sandline International’s Reputation as a Private Military Company [open access article]
Between Insurgency and Terrorism: The Escalating Operational Sophistication of the Balochistan Liberation Army, 2005–2025 [open access article]
Between ‘Qoretta’ and Trenches: The 2020–2022 Tigray War, the Tigrayan Defense Forces, and 21st Century Mobile Warfare [open access article]
Beyond the Predator Paradigm: What the Iraq and Afghan Wars Did (and Did Not) Tell Us About Emergent Drone Warfare [open access article]
Conclusions, Counter-Insurgency in the Age of Geopolitics [open access article]
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Use of Criminal Intermediaries for Extraterritorial Assassinations and Covert Violence: A Gray Zone Strategy Of Outsourced Repression [open access article]
Leadership in Irregular Warfare: Integrating Adaptive, Empowering, Complexity, and Authentic Approaches [open access article]
‘Ledger of Death and Liability’: French COIN Operations in Indochina from Decoux to Ely [open access article]
“Out-Guerrilla’ing the Guerrilla”? Hybrid War, CLARET Operations, and British Tactical Success, 1963–66 [open access article]
Political Leadership During a Low-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Conservative Party MPs Schalk Pienaar and Koos Botha in South Africa, 1990–1994 [open access article]

Toda Peace Institute

UK Defence and Armed Forces

AJP 3.25 - Allied Joint Doctrine for Non-combatant Evacuation Operations

UK House of Commons

UK Government

Russia Financial Sanctions: List of Asset-Freeze Targets

U.S.-China Commission

China-Venezuela Fact Sheet: A Short Primer on the Relationship

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

Force Design 2028 Initial Update

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

White House

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States [list of 66 organizations]

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 12-26-2025 & 1-2-2026

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:29:00 +0000

Arctic Institute

China's Digital Footprint in the Arctic: The Strategic Role of Satellite and Subsea Cable Infrastructure

Arizona State University

Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations, v. 3, no. 2 Fall 2025

Tactical Gains, Strategic Costs: A Strategic, Ethical, and Normative Evaluation of Israel’s War on Hamas in Gaza
The SOCOM Rorschach: Identity, Technology, and the Future Hidden in a List
Securitizing Kinmen: China’s Gray Zone Strategy and the Evolution of the Kinmen Model
Unconquerable by Force Alone: Ottoman Campaigns in the Highlands of Yemen, 1569-71
Frogmen and Fast Boats: The Future of Irregular Warfare in the Maritime Domain
Crisis Response as Deterrence: Strategizing the Use of Elite Capabilities to Deter Adversary Aggression

Atlantic Council

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Bipartisan Policy Center

Deficit Tracker [updated November 2025]

Brookings

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

Profiles in Leadership: Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Its Predecessors, 1941–2025
Studies in Intelligence v. 69, no. 4 (Extracts, December 2025)

The Solitary Intelligence Officer: Reflections on Secure Remote Work
Emergent Intelligence: Spycraft and Intelligence in the AI Era
Snow Globe Multi-Player AI System: Lessons from Human-AI Teaming in War Games
The Russian Way of War: "Death is Our Business" and "Spetsnaz"
Razvedchik, Russia’s Intelligence Journal
Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf

Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, December 2025, v. 37

Following the “Syria Model”? Assessing the Impact of the HTS Success on the African Jihadist Landscape
Beyond Counterterrorism: A Legitimacy-Centered Framework for Pakistan’s Security Crisis
The Syrian Civil War and the Shia Villages of al-Fua and Kafariya
The Lasting Influence of Sheikh Aboud Rogo on the African Jihad
Shades of Islamism: A Critical Analysis
Islam as an Instrument of Russia’s Colonial Policy

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

The Red Zone Map: Documenting Russian Drone Attacks in Kherson

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Can CBDCs Reinforce National Control Over Public Finance Without Risk?

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2025, v. 24, no. 2

Russia First: Putin’s Evolving Westphalian Conceptualization of State Sovereignty
Threats IN, TO, and THROUGH East of Greenland
Algorithmic Sovereignty in South Asia: India’s Use of AI in the 2025 Border Conflict
China's Strategic Manoeuvring in the Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Power Transition Theory
Bridging Histories: Lessons for the US Department of Defense from New Zealand Defence Forces’ Integration of Indigenous Cultures
Zeitenwende in Germany – a New Realistic Worldview and Its Implications

Chatham House

China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2025
Thoughts from the Chairman: What China Wants

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

College of Europe

Breaking the Enlargement Deadlock in the Western Balkans: Is the Growth Plan Sufficient?

Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

The DCA Incident: Assessing the Military’s Role in the National Airspace Tragedy

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

How Economists Can Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the U.S. Congress

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Department of Defense (DOD)

2025 Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the Republic of China

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-039 Audit of the DoD’s Oversight of Contractor Performance for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Sustainment Contracts

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

ENSURED Project

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Preparedness of Public Health Laboratories for Respiratory Infectious Diseases – EU/EEA Country Perspectives on Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

European Policy Centre (EPC)

European Values

Dual-Escalation Crisis Simulation: After-Action and Lessons Learned Report

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Future of Free Speech

That Violates My Policies: AI Laws, Chatbots, and The Future of Expression

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

Busting the Leapfrogging Myth: The EU Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Next-Gen Battery Chemistries

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Soft Blockades and Strategic Control of Maritime Chokepoints in Southeast Asia

Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

Preventing Extremism & Violent Extremism Online

Human Rights Watch

Like a Prisoner in My Home’: Coal Fueling Toxic Air in Bulgaria

IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Mapping Industrial Strength: US Machine Tool Production and Consumption

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Science and International Security

Monthly Analysis of Russian Shahed 136 Deployment Against Ukraine

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

2025 Year in Review

China-Taiwan Weekly Update

Iran Update

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Nuclear Forces for 2050

Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA)

The Drone Revolution: Lessons from Ukraine

Lowy Institute for International Relations

Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

MES Insights, June 2025, v. 16, no. 3

A Brief Overview of Iranian and Israeli Strategies following Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer

McCrary Institute Task Force on National Security and Law Enforcement

U.S. Cyber Policy: Offense, Deterrence and Strategic Competition

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

Strengthening Cyber Resilience Across Illinois Transit Agencies

National Academies Press

National Defence University (Helsinki)

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

China Security Report 2026

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Naval War College

Naval War College Review, Summer/Autumn 2025, v. 78, no. 2

Mission and Weapon Drive Fleet Design
Floating Fortresses—American Carriers’ Extraordinary Resilience to Battle Damage
Neither Confirm nor Deny—The U.S. Navy’s Declaratory Policy on Nuclear Weapons
At the Dawn of a Naval Renaissance—India Takes a Relook at Mahan
SG Radar in the Solomon Islands Campaign—Assumptions, Perceptions, Reality
From the Archives: Bringing Air to the Sea: Four Competing Paths to Developing U.S. Naval Aviation and Their Lessons

Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Niskanen Center

Opportunity by Design: How States Turn Immigration Into Economic Advantage

Observer Research Foundation

Office of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (ODCFO)

Department of Defense Agency Financial Report FY 2025

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Notice of Action: China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Targeting of the Semiconductor Industry for Dominance

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Inter-Municipal Co-operation in Kosovo: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Safeguarding Humanitarian Action Beyond Financial Sanctions: The Impact of Trade Sanctions and Export Controls

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice [open access book]

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

RAND Corporation

Royal Australian Air Force - Air Space Power Centre

Contemporary Issues in Air & Space Power, 2025, v. 3, no. 1

Redefining Recruitment in the Royal Australian Air Force
Innovation Management: Embracing the Fantastic to Get the Military Moving in New Directions
Securing Malaysia’s Maritime Environment Using Space-Derived Services
Space Traffic Management Is Critical for National Security
Air Defence Insights from the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Building an Air Force for a Long, Big War
Organising Military Innovation: Collaborative Opportunities for Organisational and Military Innovation Scholars

Australian Defence Technologies Amidst Shifting Global Economic Dynamics

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

The Sentry

Simon Fraser University

Journal for Deradicalization, Winter 2025/2026, no. 45

Prevention of radicalization among youths with mental disorders in a schooling context
‘The Guilt Complex’: Assessing How Perceptions of Guilt Impact Reintegration Experiences of Young Returnees from the FARC Across Colombia
Countering Religious Radicalism: A Systematic Review of Faith-Based Institutional Strategies and Challenges
Violent Radicalisation Prevention in Northern Nigeria: The Socio-Economic Roles of Religious Leaders

Soufan Center

Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR)

Operation Atlantic Resolve Including U.S. Government Activities Related to Ukraine - FY 2026

Stanley Center

Disinformation and Identity-Based Violence

Stimson Center

South Korean Shipbuilding Capacity

Strauss Center

Sudd Institute

South Sudan's Petroleum Revenue Mismanagement and the Emerging Debt Crisis

Taylor & Francis

African Security

Views from the Horn of Africa: Conflict Management in Ethiopia – The Role of China and the UAE [open access article]

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

Toward Integration: A Cognitive-Motivational Perspective on Extremism [open access article]

Conflict, Security & Development, 2025

Doomed to Fail? The United States and the Afghan Statebuilding Project, 2001–2021 [open access article]
Governing Yaghistan: Violence, Brokerage Politics and Counterinsurgency Policing in Baghlan [Afghanistan] [open access article]
Imagined Communities of Conflict and Development: Shifting Ideas and Practice, 1989–2023 [open access article]
Making Feminist (Non) Sense of War and Gender in Afghanistan [open access article]
The Political Economy of Civil Wars and the Future of UN Peacekeeping [open access article]
Taliban Governance and Space for Dialogue [open access article]

Journal of Applied Security Research, 2025

Cyber What???-a Systematic Review [open access article]

Journal of Military Ethics, 2025

Banning the Sale of Pharmaceuticals to Belligerent Countries during Wartime: An Ethical Analysis [open access article]
Military Prudence and Technological Disruption – the Ethics of Change Management in the Military [open access article]

Policing and Society

Transforming Gun Violence Through Group Intervention: The Swedish Experience of Implementing Focused Deterrence [open access article]

Small Wars & Insurgencies

The Anatomy of Victory in Irregular Warfare: A Multidimensional Framework for Command [open access article]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025

Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research [open access article]
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else? [open access article]
Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles [open access article]
Siege: “Sheer Political Terror” [open access article]

Transnational Institute (TNI)

UK Counter-Terrorism

Proscribed Terrorist Groups or Organisations

UK Parliament House of Commons

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Towards Trust-Based Cross-Border Data Cooperation in Central and East Asia: A Strategic Framework for Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea and Uzbekistan Part I

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Strengthening National CSIRT Cooperation: From Domestic Setups to International Networks

US Central Command (CENTCOM)

Unipath, Fall 2025, v. 13 no. 3

Enhancing Collective Defense
Securing the Seas
Protecting the Red Sea
A Multinational Medical Mission
Multinational Carrier Strike Group Acts as a Force for Stability
Many Countries, One Mission
Cohesion in a Crisis
The Power of the U.S. Department of War Rewards Program
Merging Manned and Unmanned Operations
Kuwait Launches Unmanned Surface Vessels
A Victory over Extremism
Terrorists Exploit Artificial Intelligence
Building Bridges Between Central Asia and the Arabian Gulf
Special Soldiers for Special Missions

US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)

The Watch, v. 6, 2025

Partners of Choice: Mexico and U.S. Military Cooperation
Enduring Caribbean-U.S. Alliance: Fourth Island Chain is Vital to Homeland Defense
Operational Readiness
The Golden Dome and Implications for the North
Defending the North American Arctic: Canada’s New Arctic Foreign Policy
Countering CCP Presence: Leveraging Canada's New Arctic Maritime Capabilities
Nordic Vision 2030: Defense Cooperation among NATO Partners
Strengthening the Sweden-U.S. Partnership
Maritime Muscle: Canada, Mexico, U.S. Collaborate on Security Issues with NAMSI Exercises
Advancing Arctic Collaboration: Anchorage Security and Defense Conference
WHINSEC Supports Homeland Defense
Guardians of the Arctic
Operation Global Guardian: U.S. and Allies Conduct Integrated Arctic Air Operations
Operation Polar Dagger: U.S. Navy and Special Operations Forces Train for Arctic Campaigns
Joint Expeditionary Force: A Decade of Strategic Excellence
Safeguarding the Arctic: Operation Nanook-Nunalivut
Operation Amalgam Eagle: DEFENSA, AFNORTH Conduct Live-Fly Air Defense Exercise
Fuerzas Amigas: DEFENSA and U.S. Military Conduct Joint Disaster Response Exercise
Operation Fenix: MARINA, MARFORNORTH Conduct Amphibious Training Operation
Mexico’s Cyber Force: Armed Forces Expand AI Use in Military Operations

University of Texas, Austin

Texas National Security Review, 9, no. 1, Winter 2025/2026

The Changing Face of War—And of Our Work
Wars of the Greater Middle East, 1945–92
Threading the Needle: The Logic of Conventional Coercion in Nuclear Crises
Bombs, Bots, and the Principle of Distinction: The Law of Armed Conflict and Contemporary Warfare
A New World Order? Careful What You Wish For
How a US “Suez Moment” Could Hollow the US Alliance System
The Arsenal of Democracy: Keeping China Deterred in an Age of Hard Choices
National Security Elites: Shaping Policy in Times of Crisis
Shaping National Security Decisions: An Insider’s View of The Insiders’ Game
Would a China War Scenario Break the Insiders’ Hold?

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

World Bank

Friday's Miscellany 12-14-2025 & 12-19-2025

noreply@blogger.com (Greta E. Marlatt) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:14:00 +0000

38 North

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Air University Press

Air & Space Operations Review, Winter 2025, v. 4, no. 2

ACE Gets Light and Lean: Joint Concepts to Make ACE Effective in the Western Pacific
Macro-Management in the Air Component: Learning to Love the Mission Type Order
An Argument for Agile Autonomy in Airpower
The Continued Evolution of Air Force Targeting
The Space Rescue Professional: Operationalizing Guardians for the Future
Electrifying delta-v for the Space Force
Critiquing the US Air Force Academy’s Core: Does It Satisfy the Need?
Diplomats in Fortresses: The 1938 “Good Will Flight” to Argentina

The Future of Air and Space Power: Intersections of Theory and Technology

American Enterprise Institute

The 2026 Defense Policy Bill Again Shows Congress Can Work Together

American Statistical Association (ASA)

The Nation’s Data at Risk: 2025 Report

Amnesty International

Arctic Institute

Army University Press

Forging the Framework: Evolving Law, Policy, and Doctrine for the US Military’s Domestic Response

Army War College Press

Parameters, Winter 2025-26 no. 55, no. 4

Responsibly Pursuing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for the War Fighter
A Hybrid Deterrence Model for Countering China
Security Implications of the China-Russia-North Korea Triangle
China’s Securitization of Agricultural Imports: A Case of Economic Statecraft Mixed Successes
Drones and the Changing Character of War
Mission Command’s Asymmetric Advantage Through AI-Driven Data Management
On Lethality: Toward a More Complete Definition and Formation of the Lethality Framework
Reframing the Nature of Strategic Competition

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

Atlantic Council

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Japan-Australia Defence Cooperation in the Pacific: The Case for a Partial Division of Labor

Baker Institute for Public Policy

AI Geoeconomics: Allied Electricity and Secure Data Centers

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

Is the UAE Deepening Its Strategic Involvement Against the Houthis?

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

A Flawed Path to Peace: The Weaknesses of the Proposed U.S.–Russia Framework for Ukraine

Brookings

Bruegel

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cato Institute

Immigration and Inequality in the Next Generation

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for American Progress (CAP)

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Center for International Policy

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Arsenal of Policy: Defense Industrial Base Wargame Final Report

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Analyses in Security Policy

No. 370: Women, Peace, Security: Global Norms, Local Practice

Belarus Analytical Digest

No. 007: Belarusian Elites after Lukashenka
No. 006: Belarus' Relations with Poland and China in the Context of the War in Ukraine

Caucasus Analytical Digest

No. 144: Queer-Feminist Resistance and Post-Socialist Entanglements

Policy Perspectives, December 2025, v. 13, no. 6

Islamic Jurists in Conflict: Negotiating Governance

Russian Analytical Digest

No. 333: Perceptions and Experiences of War in Russia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

The New Rules of the Game in the Horn of Africa - Hedging, Rivalry, and Partnership between Turkey, Egypt, and Ethiopia

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for Independent Studies

Reframing an Ancient Hatred: The Intersection of Left-Wing Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

Understanding Disclosure Motivations and Their Linguistic Correlates

Chatham House

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

EU Budget Proposals: Caught Between Ambition and Governance Failure

Congress. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Part

Congress. Offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Garamendi

Draining Defense: Trump’s Immigration Stunts Cost Billions at the Expense of Military Readiness, Morale, and National Security

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

Food Trade Chokepoints & US National Security in 2040

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Defense AI Observatory (DAIO)

Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Defense Acquisition, v. 54, no. 6, November-December 2025

A Systems Approach to Sustainable Innovation
The Value of Warfighting Innovation
Revolutionizing Planning and Operations With AI
Artificial Intelligence—Trust but Verify
Doers, Not Reviewers—Leadership Role in Agile Software Development
Spectrum Certification and Supportability Risk Assessments— Not Just Radio Red Tape
Contract Disputes and Their Resolution
Contracting Officer Procurement Integrity Act Investigations

Department of Defense/War

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

DODIG-2026-038 Evaluation of the Navy’s Future Sailor Preparatory Course
DODIG-2026-035 Impact of Protecting DoD High-Risk Personnel on the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations
DODIG-2026-034 Inadequate Housing of Soldiers Supporting the Southern Border Mission
DODIG‑2026‑033 Audit of DoD's Enhanced End-Use Monitoring in Israel
DODIG-2026-031 The DoD’s Calculation and Reporting of Future Servicemember Preparatory Course Graduates for Recruiting Metrics
DODIG-2026-030 Evaluation Directed by the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Classified Annex to the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act, Enclosure 11
DODIG-2026-025 Audit of the Defense Health Agency’s Management of Military Medical Treatment Facilities Outside the Continental United States in Meeting Access to Primary Care Standards
DODIG-2026-024 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation: U.S Army Reserve, U.S Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Worst Case Housing Needs: 2025 Report to Congress

Department of State Office of Inspector General

ISP-I-26-02 Evaluation of the Department’s Efforts to Improve Oversight of Its Funding to International Organizations

Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Benchmarking Large Language Models for the Electric Power Sector

EMDE Investor Taskforce

EMDE Climate Transition and Financial Stability: How Far Will Delayed Transitions in EMDEs Lead to Local and Global Financial Stability Risks?

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

European Council on Foreign Relations

European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

EUROPOL

The Unmanned Future(s): The Impact of Robotics and Unmanned Systems on Law Enforcement

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

George Washington University Program on Extremism

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

The Geopolitics of Batteries: How Europe Can Reclaim Energy Storage Sovereignty Before It’s Too Late

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Air Traffic Control Workforce: FAA Should Establish Goals and Better Assess Its Hiring Processes GAO-26-107320
Coast Guard: Approaches to Autonomous Ship Regulation GAO-26-108762
Coast Guard: Monitoring of Disability Evaluation System Could Be Improved GAO-26-107161
Commercial Aviation: Certain Nonhub Airports Face Significant Challenges in Securing and Maintaining Air Service GAO-26-107751
Cybersecurity: Independent Assessment and VA Response Generally Met Requirements GAO-26-107980
Digital Surveillance: Potential Effects on Workers and Roles of Federal Agencies [Reissued with revisions on Dec. 10, 2025] GAO-25-107126
Disaster Assistance High-Risk Series: State and Local Response Capabilities GAO-26-108599
Excess Defense Articles: DOD Needs to Better Assess the Program GAO-26-107627
Federal Home Loan Banks: Role During Financial Stress and Members' Borrowing Trends and Outcomes GAO-26-107373
Federal Law Enforcement: Status Update with Regard to Criminal Sexual Acts while Serving in Official Capacity (Fiscal Year 2025) GAO-26-108616
Financial Management Shared Services: Progress and Identified Challenges GAO-26-107895
Government Performance: Confronting High Risks and Fiscal Challenges Is Crucial to a More Effective and Sustainable Government GAO-26-108824
Health Care Accessibility: Further Efforts Needed to Address Barriers for People with Disabilities GAO-26-107120
Human Trafficking: Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Anti-Trafficking Projects in Conflict-Affected Countries GAO-26-107406
Humanitarian Parole: DHS Identified Fraud Risks in Parole Processes for Noncitizens and Should Assess Lessons Learned GAO-26-107433
Illicit Synthetic Drugs: Trafficking Methods, Money Laundering Practices, and Coordination Efforts GAO-26-107918
K-12 Education: Administration of DOD Schools in Bahrain GAO-26-108077
Navy Ship Maintenance: Fire Prevention Improvements Hinge on Stronger Contractor Oversight GAO-26-107716
Osprey Aircraft: Additional Oversight and Information Sharing Would Improve Safety Efforts GAO-26-107285
Personnel Security Clearances: Actions Needed to Address Significant Data Reliability Issues That Impact Oversight GAO-26-107100
Science & Tech Spotlight: Malicious Use of Generative AI GAO-26-108695
Semiconductors: Information on Projects Funded to Strengthen U.S. Supply Chain GAO-26-107882
Service Academies: Clarifying Guidance Would Enhance Effectiveness of Honor and Conduct Systems GAO-26-107049

Supplemental Material for GAO-26-107049: Questionnaires for Survey of Service Academy Students GAO-26-108179

U.S. Postal Service: Action Needed to Fix Unsustainable Business Model GAO-26-107336
U.S. Postal Service Primer: Updated Answers to Key Questions About Reform Issues GAO-26-107657
VA Electronic Health Record Modernization: Critical Actions Needed to Support Accelerated System Deployments GAO-26-108812
Weapon Systems Testing: DOD Needs to Update Policies to Better Support Modernization Efforts GAO-26-107009

Govini

From Factory to Fight: A Modern Framework for Defense Logistics

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC)

The Shield and the Sword: The Impact of Ballistic Missile Defence on Missile Proliferation

Henley Putnam University

Journal of Strategic Security, 2025, v. 18, no. 4 [Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine]

The Evolving Landscape of European Security: An Assessment of NATO’s Posture and Deterrence Strategies in Response to the Russia-Ukraine War
Authoritarian Strategic Alignments in the Ukraine War: Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China
Ukraine’s Proxy War Against Russia and its Lessons for Europe
The Future of War: Kill-Chain Supremacy and Ukraine's Lessons
Artificial Intelligence in Warfare: The Case of the Russia-Ukraine War
Has Russian Electronic Warfare Underperformed in the Ukrainian Conflict?
Sea Denial: The Ukrainian Case Study and the Future of Naval Warfare
Millions of Tons, Billions in Dollars: Unexploded Ordnance in Ukraine
Energy Weaponization in the Ukraine–Russia War: Sanctions, Rerouting Flows, and Implications for Smaller States
Navigating Energy Transition: EU’s Lessons in the Wake of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Russian Resilience: Sanction Elusion Mechanisms Utilized During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Surveying New Battlegrounds: Ukraine and the Future of Cognitive Warfare
Sacralizing Security: Orthodoxy and Securitization in Russia’s War on Ukraine
Slava Ukraini! Solving Ukraine’s Present with the Past
Legal Framework for Counterintelligence Activities in Ukraine
Ukrainian Studies on Terrorism: Contemporary Overview and Thematic Classification

Henry L. Stimson Center

Hudson Institute

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

InSight Crime

Peace Never Had a Chance: Colombia’s ELN in Venezuela

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

The Rise of the Organization of Turkic States: Is Turkic Cooperation Filling a Geopolitical Vacuum?

Institute for Science and International Security

Imagery Update of Activities at North Korea’s Yongbyon Site

Institute for the Study of War

Africa File

December 11, 2025 M23 Captures Uvira; Benin Coup; RSF Captures Key Sudanese Oil Hub
December 18, 2025 M23 Withdraws from Uvira; Saudi-UAE Red Sea Competition

China-Taiwan Weekly Update

Iran Update

Russian Occupation Update

December 11, 2025

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2025, v.19, no. 4

Wait, There’s Terrorism in The Lorax? Examining Portrayals of Eco-tage and Eco-terrorism in Influential Fiction Film, 1972-2023
Can We Leave Ideology Behind? Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Motivational Action Frames in Tracking Radicalisation and Deradicalisation
Why Ideology Endures in our Study of Terrorists
A Response to "Can We Leave Ideology Behind?"
Ideology and Motivation
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Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, December 19, 2025, v. 25, no. 23

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation
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Jewish Institute for National Security of America

Key Middle East Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act

Kiel Institut

Ukraine Support Tracker: Europe Fails to Offset US Aid Drop

Lowy Institute for International Relations

Navigating the Storm: Southeast Asia and the Global Trade Shocks

Mercator Institute for China Studies

MERICS Top China Risks 2026

Middle East Institute

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Trinidad and Tobago Grapples with Venezuelan Migrants in a Complex Environment

Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Charting a Path to Space Superiority: The Cross-Domain Imperative

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Strengthening the Defense Industrial Base through Supply Chain Diversification and Partnerships

National Academies Press

Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force 2025

National Bureau of Asian Research

All Railroads Lead to China: China’s Borderlands Strategy of Integration in Laos

National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

The Challenge of a Rising, Nuclear-Armed China

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

CMSI Translations #25: A New Pillar for Distant Oceans: Concepts for the Chinese Navy's New Generation of General-Purpose Destroyers

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International Law Studies, 2025, v. 107, issue 1

New America

Threat Complacency and Nuclear Risk: Addressing Old Threats in a New Era

Observer Research Foundation

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

Law Enforcement Solutions by the Field, for the Field: Collaborative Reform Seventh Annual Review

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

Personality Matters: How Mayors Navigated Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research Center

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Small Arms Survey

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Swedish Defense Research Agency

Unmanned Surface Vessels: A Legal Analysis Based on the Use in the Russia-Ukraine Armed Conflict

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Swedish National China Centre

China’s Mineral Export Restrictions: Market Impacts and Implications

Taylor & Francis

African Security

Brothers in Arms? Vigilantism and Ambivalent State Responses in West Africa [open access article]
Children of the Soil: Parallels Between Vigilantes and Boko Haram in Hybrid Security-Governance of the Lake Chad Basin Region [open access article]
Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe [open access article]
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Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

The Community Impact of Terrorism: The Case of the 2022 Pride Terrorist Attack in Norway [open access article]

Critical Studies on Terrorism

AI as a Tool for Settler-Colonial Projects: How Israel Employs AI to Intensify Colonial Dominance Under the Pretext of Counterterrorism [open access article]

Defence and Peace Economics, 2026

Can Sanctions Backfire? [open access article]
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Defence Studies, 2025

EU-NATO Cooperation Reloaded: The Impact of European Strategic Autonomy [open access article]
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Transatlantic Solidarity in the Shadow of the Russian–Ukrainian War: A Neorealist Explanation [open access article]
Understanding the European Union’s Response to the Russian War on Ukraine: The Role of the European External Action Service [open access article]

Ethics & Global Politics, 2025

Should Transgender Individuals Serve in the Armed Forces? [open access article]

Intelligence and National Security, 2025

A Country With “Its Own Special Problems”: Domestic Surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War [open access article]
Invisible Bodies of War: British Servicewomen on Covert Operations in Northern Ireland [open access article]
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Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2025

Domestication of the African Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity Legislative Framework – Lessons Learned from the First Four Countries: Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, and Sierra Leone [open access article]
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Scaling Back Aid for Africa is a Strategic Misstep for the United States [open access article]
The UAE’s Niche Diplomacy in the Middle East: Authoritarian Strategies of a Middle Power [open access article]

Journal of Strategic Studies

Toward a Global History of Bombing in the Second World War: Taking Japan Seriously [open access article]

Security Studies, 2025

Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other [open access article]
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UK Government

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Taiwan: Relations with the United States

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Rebuilding Lives: Understanding Economic Well-being After Exiting an Armed Group in the North East of Nigeria

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

United States Studies Centre (USSC)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS)

Cadmus Journal, December 2025, v. 5, no. 5

The Climate Challenge as a Catalyst for Global Social Evolution
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The Forgotten Why
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Advancing a Planetary Arts Movement: A Manifesto for X-ART
Reliable Knowledge through the Integration of Art & Science
American Hegemony at a Critical Juncture, Lessons from History’s Great Powers
Reconcentration Around Empires
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Bridging the Gap: The Role of Green Quantitative Easing and Central Bank Digital Currencies in Managing, Funding and Hedging Our Common Future
Reconceptualizing Leadership and Reeducating Collaborators in the Twenty-first Century
Science, Society, and Sustainability: Toward a New Paradigm of Integrated Knowledge for Human Security
A Global Roadmap towards inclusive Human Security
Turbulent Times: A Framework for Navigating Global Crisis Through Conscious Transformation
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World Bank