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Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime
This monograph, part of a larger study of ways to reduce collateral damage undertaken for the U.S. Air Force, analyzes press, public, and leadership r...
Supporting Data and Case Studies
The United States conducts air operations with other willing NATO allies, including non-NATO members. The objective of this background research for a ...
It is often said that the Vietnam War taught us that the American public is no longer willing to tolerate American casualties in U.S. wars and militar...
A Framework for Enhancing Army Capabilities
The authors aim to assist the U.S. Army in understanding "influence operations," capabilities that may allow the United States to effectively influenc...
A Framework for Intelligence Analysis
The authors identify the intelligence and analytic requirements associated with each of these two stylized forms of IW and describe a top-down framewo...
Components and Challenges
This report describes the current defense planning process used by the U.S. Department of Defense, with a focus on how scenarios are developed and emp...
Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other "soft" factors in order ...
Toward a Long-term Strategy
Since the end of the Cold War, agreement within the defense community that the United States must be able to project power abroad quickly and effectiv...
Concepts, Issues, and Options
Although military policy seems focused on overseas threats, defending the homeland is, of course, the ultimate objective. This guide examines emergent...
A Study of South Korean Attitudes Toward the U.S.
Have South Korean attitudes toward the United States deteriorated? To answer this question, RAND researchers compiled and analyzed public opinion data...
Industry Views Critical Technologies
As part of the effort to produce the fourth National Critical Technologies Report, the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office...
Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have rec...
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A Tool for Center of Gravity Analysis
"Contains the technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on...
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...
Understanding the Role of Casualties in Support for U.S. Military Operations
Provides an analytic framework and procedure for the intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that can serve as the basis for IW i...
In this report, the authors describe a methodology for allocating resources among various facets of missile defense. Their model takes into account th...
Results of a Workshop for the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was created at the onset of the Cold War in 1950 'to promote the progress of science; to advance the national he...
How the U.S. Army Can Help Close Gaps in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Two presidents have declared counterproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) a top national priority, but it has not been budgeted or resour...
A Primer for Cost Analysts
This report provides the cost analyst with an introduction to the Department of the Navy and focuses on those characteristics that are most important ...
Assessing Intelligence Support to Three Army Long-range Planning Communities
This report examines the intelligence needs of three groups of Army long-range planners--strategic planners, force developers, and acquisition--and co...