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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...
Even a half century after the birth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Taiwan Strait remains the locus of one of the most dangerous military...
Military Aspects of the China-Taiwan Confrontation and Options for U.S. Policy
Among the hottest flashpoints in the world today, the Taiwan Strait cannot be ignored by U.S. policymakers and diplomats. China regularly rattles its ...
Technology, Scenarios, and U.S. Air Force Responses
As part of a two-year effort to develop an expansive construct of air and space power in the early twenty-first century that capitalizes on forthcomin...
Discussion and Results from a Structured Workshop
This report presents the results of a fiscal year 2016 RAND Project AIR FORCE add-on project to generate a range of future projections to assist Air F...
Summary Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations
The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to pre...
Faced with the challenge of deterring and defeating aggression by the kinds of highly capable adversaries highlighted in the 2018 National Defense Str...
Lessons from the Base Force, Bottom-up Review, and Quadrennial Defense Review
The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of profound change in the international arena and hence in the policymaking environment as well. Yet the cha...
This functional area analysis lays out the tasks, conditions, and standards for the intratheater airlift fleet, taken from high-level guidance, variou...
Assessing the Options
Researchers assessed what airpower fleet mixes could best posture the U.S. Coast Guard to execute its various missions globally to meet future operati...
The Value of Time
This report describes research to quantify the "rescuability window" of downed aircrews to assist the U.S. Air Force's reassessment of its personnel r...
Department of Defense assistance to partner nations entails supporting helicopter fleets, often composed of outdated and difficult-to-service equipmen...
Options for the Current Fleet and Next-generation Aircraft
The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and...
This functional needs analysis is the second in a trio of documents that the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System requires for a capa...
Appendixes A-C, Supporting Analyses of Adaptive Basing, Soft Power, and Historical Case Studies
The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing to reduce vulnerability and preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. Th...
This functional solution analysis is the third in a trio of documents that the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System requires for a ca...