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This report assesses challenges for unit cohesion from integrating women into special operations forces and provides analytical support for validating...
Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page....
"There is an ongoing debate about the effects of U.S. military presence on conflict around the globe. In one view, U.S. military presence helps to det...
Forging Tighter Connections Between Tactical Security Cooperation Activities and U.S. Strategic Goals in the Asia-Pacific Region
"Security cooperation (SC) events should forge strong relationships with U.S. partners, help develop partners' military capabilities and ability to op...
Recommendations for Strengthening Army Engagement
The U.S. Army's global landpower network concept integrates, sustains, and advances the Army's efforts to meet U.S. national security guidance emphasi...
Insights from Forward-Deployed Sof Personnel SOF Personnel
RAND Corporation researchers identified three key operational challenges that forward-deployed personnel have encountered and then assessed the extent...
A Prototype for More-general Social-science Modeling
This report builds on earlier RAND research (e.g., Understanding and Influencing Public Support for Insurgency and Terrorism, 2012) that reviewed and ...
Benefits, Objectives, and Strategies
National defense policies have focused on the importance of multinational interoperability to meeting U.S. defense goals. By recounting their literatu...
Quelling Perfect Storms
RAND researchers describe an experimental "thinking-Red" approach to analysis, wargaming, and other exercises to help inform strategies to avoid aggre...
The authors examine trade-offs between the contributions of campaigning instruments to U.S. strategic goals and their costs. They provide the foundati...
An Assessment
This report assesses U.S. efforts in defense institution building (DIB) in Africa and suggests possible improvements to planning and execution. It def...
Regional Conflict Trends and U.S. Defense Planning
This report analyzes trends in violent conflict and their implications for defense planning. It presents models estimating levels of conflict to 2040 ...
Evaluating Options for Complicating Adversary Decisionmaking
The 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy instructed the U.S. military to become more operationally unpredictable and suggested that doing so would help...
An Empirical Assessment of Historical Conflict Patterns and Future Conflict Projections
Based on conflict projections through 2040, this report concludes that despite the generally declining incidence of armed conflict, the Army must prep...
Social-behavioral modeling is famously hard. This report examines shortcomings and obstacles--some inherent to complex adaptive systems broadly and so...
Early Development of the Army Interoperability Measurement System (AIMS)
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) emphasizes the need for U.S. forces to be interoperable with capable allies and partners. To support the NDS, the ...
Framing Army-to-army Partnerships
"The U.S. strategic security environment has undergone a shift during the past decade: The regional focus on countering violent extremist organization...
An Overview
This report highlights recent RAND Arroyo Center research on the value of the Army's regionally aligned forces to U.S. security cooperation activities...
From a decades-long perspective, the incidence of armed conflict has decreased. Interstate war (that is, war between states) has become a rare event. ...
A Framework for Implementation
To help the Army increase the effectiveness of its security cooperation activities, this report examines when Army security cooperation can have the g...