Gian Gentile

Wrong Turn

America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency

A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian—“A remarkable book” (N...

How Effective is Strategic Bombing?

Lessons Learned From World War II to Kosovo

In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determi...

The Evolution of U.S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present, Volume II

The Formative Years for U.S. Military Policy, 1898-1940

Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “tr...

The Evolution of U.S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present, Volume I

The Old Regime: The Army, Militia, and Volunteers from Colonial Times to the Spanish-American War

Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “tr...

The Evolution of U.S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present, Volume IV

The Total Force Policy Era, 1970–2015

Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “tr...

North Korean Decisionmaking

Economic Opening, Conventional Deterrence Breakdown, and Nuclear Use

The authors examine (1) experiences of different communist regimes to forecast North Korean adoption of a new economic model; (2) what might happen if...

A History of the Third Offset, 2014-2018

The authors describe the Third Offset -- a U.S. strategy centered on the potential of technology to offset Chinese and Russian military advances and t...

The U. S. Army and the Battle for Baghdad

Lessons Learned - And Still to Be Learned

To help the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of Defense retain institutional knowledge and fully prepare future leaders, RAND researchers recount the Arm...

Operation Inherent Resolve

U.S. Ground Force Contributions

This report, which outlines four battles within Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and reviews U.S. ground force contributions to those battles, is inte...

The Backbone of U. S. Joint Operations

Army Roles in the Indo-Pacific

The authors of this report seek to provide an engaging and structured narrative to clearly describe the U.S. Army's role throughout the Indo-Pacific r...

Sustaining the Army's Reserve Components as an Operational Force

This report identifies emerging policy lessons regarding the use of, and reforms to, the U.S. Army's Reserve Components (RCs) as an operational reserv...

A History of the Strategic Implications of the Great Recession and Its Aftermath on U.S. National Defense

The authors present a history of the Great Recession's reverberations, and especially the related emergence of a national focus on deficit reduction, ...

Battle of Gettysburg

The Impact of Alternative Technologies on Civil War History

The authors of this Battlefield Futures Program report examine the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and consider the potential outcomes that might have come ...