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The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions
United States has engaged in counterinsurgency around the globe for more than a century. But insurgencies have rarely been defeated by outside powers....
A New Framework for U.S. Air Force Global Presence
U.S. Air Force (USAF) global posture—its overseas forces, facilities, and arrangements with partner nations—faces a variety of fiscal, political, ...
Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options
Examines alternative means to decrease the deployment time for the new Army medium-weight brigade, comparing air and sealift from the United States wi...
Insights from Three Decades of RAND Research
In this report, researchers describe overarching trends that affect defense acquisition, outline challenges in the defense acquisition process, and su...
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Rethinking Army and Air Force Roles and Functions
The gap between the growing cruise and ballistic missile threat to U.S. Air Force bases in Europe and the U.S. capacity and capability to counter the ...
The authors identified disputes among roles, missions, and functions (RMF) that have endured as problems for the U.S. Air Force and crafted a framewor...
Implications for USAF Force Presentation
This report's authors identify capabilities the Air Force needs to carry out distributed operations in a contested environment. They then assess wheth...
Force presentation constructs are salient to service leaders because they are often viewed as a way to constrain demands for rotational forces and per...
This report provides an overview of RAND's work on air base defense and attack from 1951 through 2020, describes RAND's contributions, and identifies ...
Assessing Capacity Demands in Four Alternative Futures
The U.S. military has mostly operated at a high operational tempo since the end of the Cold War, and there appears to be no significant reduction in d...