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An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics
The U.S. ability to "read" the Iranian regime and formulate appropriate policies has been weakened by lack of access to the country and by the opacity...
Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran's commander in chief and highest political authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, plays a critical role in Iran's direction. This mono...
The American Edition of this well known handbook will build on the strengths and features of the UK book, while addressing the primary concerns of US ...
Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East
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Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza
This report describes how the Israel Defense Force fought an adaptive hybrid adversary in a dense urban setting under intense public scrutiny during i...
Insights from Social Science
For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Arm...
U.S. Air Force Roles
The authors describe possible regional security structures and bilateral U.S. relationships with Iraq and Afghanistan. They recommend that the United ...
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...
A Criterion for Evaluating Strategic Forces
OPTEMPO and Force Structure Implications
This briefing takes a look at current contingency demands on the Air Force and its ability to meet them....
Case Study of an Air Force Fighter Wing
Ongoing allegations of problems with readiness in the current environment of constrained resources and demanding contingency requirements have driven ...
Case Study of an Air Force Mobility Wing
THe U.S. Air Force has recently confronted a host of challenges in its efforts to maintian military readiness. This briefing focuses on the nature of ...
Security cooperation has long been an important instrument of the U.S. government and the Department of Defense for advancing national security object...
Improving Effectiveness and Finding Efficiencies
To support defense planners in crafting effective deterrence strategies, RAND researchers assess the impact of U.S. forward presence, exercises and sh...
This document reports on independent, exploratory research on air campaign planning and execution. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to provide observatio...
An Assessment of Roles and Missions
This report examines the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance's history, activities, and roles to determine how it...
Incorporating Impact in Planning, Programming, and Capability Development
"Prepared for the United States Air Force"--Title page....
Promoting Greater Transparency in Department of Defense Security Cooperation Reporting
This report analyzes the obstacles that the Department of Defense (DoD) faces in tracking security cooperation spending and provides recommendations f...
In this study, RAND researchers examined the current role of security cooperation efforts as a tool in the emerging strategic competition among the Un...
Most observers of U.S. military affairs agree that the process within the Department of Defense (DoD) of enhancing U.S. military capability-or moderni...
The Roles of Social, Cultural, and Political Knowledge and Skills in the Full Spectrum of Multidomain Operations
Countering emerging threats is not based solely on defeating a nation-state's military forces by conventional, kinetic means. Fundamentally, these thr...
Enhancing AFSOC Health Engagement Missions
Findings and recommendations from a study undertaken to assist AFSOC in planning for, assessing, and enhancing the effectiveness of missions to build ...
For 40 years, U.S. defense planners had the luxury of confronting a geopolitical environment whose basic nature varied little. Now, however, the momen...
A Framework for Linking Means and Ends
Strategies to tasks is a framework for force planning consisting of a hierarchy of objectives. This framework provides an audit trail from the broades...
Over the past decade, the United States Air Force has faced a variety of unforeseen challenges. On the one hand, a significant portion of the force ha...
Part II of a Methodology for Evaluating Strategic Forces
A pressing issue facing the United States in the early 1990s centers on whether, and for what strategic purposes, the United States should deploy nati...
The post-Desert Storm era increasingly has been characterized by involvement of U.S. military forces in "contingency" operations short of war-activiti...
Lessons for Puerto Rico on Supply-Chain Management and Recovery Governance
The authors analyze supply-chain management and recovery governance in four disaster-ridden countries. Research was conducted in Puerto Rico to assess...
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...
A Review of Title 10 Authorities for Security Cooperation
This report develops a framework and options to streamline the patchwork of authorities in Public Law and Title 10 of the U.S. Code that the Departmen...
Implications for the air force
This report proposes a systematic prioritization framework for U.S. foreign military sales and security cooperation activities to help the U.S. Depart...
Implications for the Department of the Air Force
The authors assess trends in how U.S. allies and partners view the evolving competition with China and Russia and identify opportunities that the Unit...
An Exploratory Analysis
In this report, the authors consider how the United States can enhance engagement with highly capable allies and partners to improve interoperability ...
Developing and Presenting Options for Future Force Design and Capability Development
RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support c...