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Assessment and Metrics in Counterinsurgency
The unpredictable counterinsurgency environment challenges centralized, quantitative campaign assessment. A comprehensive examination of the centraliz...
"The Islamic State is a byproduct of the 2003 American intervention in Iraq and the subsequent American departure in 2011. At its peak in late 2014, t...
Insurgencies have dominated the focus of the U.S. military for the past seven years, but they have a much longer history than that and are likely to f...
The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of United States Forces-Iraq
Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi g...
Analyzing, Modeling, and Simulating the Will to Fight of Military Units
This report defines and describes will to fight and provides a model of unit will to fight that can be applied to ground combat units of any scale. It...
Assessing the Use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
This report examines the use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Afghanistan. It explores the effectiveness of CERP in supporting ...
How Russia, China, and Iran Are Eroding American Influence Using Time-Tested Measures Short of War
Since 9/11, Russia, China, and Iran have successfully exploited or stretched U.S. thresholds for high-order war in order to further their strategic en...
Combating Russian Gray Zone Aggression Against NATO in the Contact, Blunt, and Surge Layers of Competition
Russia's conventional capabilities pose a serious threat to NATO that remains mostly untested. Where it has historically succeeded is in using various...
"Russia's conventional capabilities pose a serious threat to NATO that remains mostly untested. Where it has historically succeeded is in using variou...
Implications for the United States
"Present unrest in the Middle East has many causes and takes on many forms. A collective sense of disenfranchisement, inadequate governance, geopoliti...
Puncturing the Myths of Modern War
"Ground Combat reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenges the overly subjective and often inaccurate American app...
Freedom of movement (FoM) is the actual or perceived degree to which individuals or groups can move from place to place within a given environment or ...
A New Paradigm
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How the Syrian Refugee Crisis Can Improve Jordan's Outlook
This report's analytic forecasts should help the United States determine how to improve its support to Jordan as it faces the Syrian refugee crisis....
Operational Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and a Survey of Selected Efforts ; Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
RAND conducted a lessons learned examination of operations analysis, modeling, and simulation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation I...
Lessons from Historical Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Efforts
This report analyzes historic cases of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration to inform present U.S. policy on Iraq's Popular Mobilization For...
Operational Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and a Survey of Selected Efforts
RAND conducted an examination of operations analysis, modeling, and simulation support to decisionmaking in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation I...
Analysis of Russian Ground Force Deployment Capabilities and Limitations
By the time it invaded Crimea in 2014, Russia seemed to have regained a significant portion of the military power it lost after the fall of the Soviet...
An Abbreviated Report of the Study's Primary Findings
Presents findings from six historical case studies in which the mission of special operations forces in each of the six countries transitioned over ti...
Why Some States Keep Fighting and Others Don't
"What drives some governments to persevere in war at any price while others choose to stop fighting? It is often less-tangible political and economic ...
A Will-To-Fight Case Study with Lessons for Western Security Force Assistance
This is a study of Iraqi Army will to fight. It applies the RAND military will-to-fight model and assessment tool to three cases and recommends change...
Second Edition-Rulebook, 2nd Edition
This document presents the updated, second edition ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provi...
Implementing a Way Forward
Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches
"In this report, several authors explore the concept of undergoverned spaces (UGS) and the concepts, challenges, and prospects for developing new appr...
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