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An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits
This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provid...
Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends ...
RAND Counterinsurgency Study--Volume 1
U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being ...
The Dangerous Road Ahead
The author combines macroeconomic history since the Great Depression with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that hist...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles
Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An e...
Limiting Terrorist Use of Advanced Conventional Weapons
Examines how terrorists make technology choices and how the United States can discourage terrorists' use of advanced conventional weapons. Concludes t...
Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, many agencies within the federal government began restricting some of their publicly available geospatial...
Armed conflict has always made serious demands on information, whether it is about the disposition of our own forces or the intentions and status of t...
Part of a series examining the technology competition between security organizations and terrorist organizations, this report focuses on understanding...
Workforce planning is an activity intended to ensure that investment in human capital results in the timely capability to effectively carry out an org...
The authors assess the costs associated with realistic threats to domestic, nonmilitary uses of the Global Positioning System (GPS), and consider poss...
This report examines what role nonstrategic nuclear weapons could play in deterring a Russian invasion of the Baltic states, where the North Atlantic ...
Developing Prototype Approaches to Estimate Risk Reduction Across Security Missions
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Security Forces (SF) are responsible for detecting, deterring, denying, and defeating security threats in both garrison and ...
Examining the Role of Sensing and Partner and Allied Contributions to Competition with Russia in the Arctic
Since 2016, Plan Blue wargames have explored scenarios that depict large-scale war fights against state adversaries in order to help U.S. Department o...