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100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo
From ancient times to the present, great sieges have had an enormous impact on the shaping of world history. Now, in this spectacular, fully-illustrat...
The British Mesopotamian Campaign and Commission
The traditionally accepted rationale behind this move has been the protection of oil supplies used by the Royal Navy - but the campaign veered serious...
From Ancient Times to the Present
Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991....
A selective review of modern decision science and implications for decision-support systems. The study suggests ways to synthesize lessons from resear...
Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
"The personality of a general is indispensable," Napoleon once said. "He is the head, he is the all, of an army." In Masters of the Battlefield, Paul ...
An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present
Besieged examines the most important sieges in historyโthe actions and motivations of attackers and defenders along with conditions inside and outsi...
This report describes an approach to high-level decision support for a Joint Forces Air Component Commander in combat operations or a Chief of Staff i...
Theory and Experiments
This report extends research on using scenarios for strategic planning, with experiments in what can be called massive scenario generation (MSG), a co...
Encyclopedia of Invasions & Conquests is a comprehensive guide to over 150 invasions, conquests, battles and occupations, from the ancient times to th...
This report illustrates a number of basic principles about aggregation and disaggregation in combat modeling by working through the mathematics and ph...
An examination of analysis and analysis practices for defense planning, the paper1s purpose is to delineate priorities for the way ahead, i.e., for in...
Putting the Pieces Together
Employs an interdisciplinary, social science approach to various counterterrorism questions, problems, and policies....
Videoconferencing, Audioconferencing, and Computer-Mediated Communications
A summary of the research literature on how the processes and outcomes of virtual, or mediated, collaborations are affected by the communication mediu...
How Much Worse Off Are Small Firms?
More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers. However, rising health-care costs may threaten ...
From ferocious tribes to charismatic leaders and daring militias, this edition of The Encyclopedia of Historical Warrior Peoples & Fighting Groups exp...
A Component in the War on al Qaeda
It may not be possible to deter fanatical terrorists, but members of terrorist systems may be amenable to influence. The U.S. counterterrorism strateg...
An analytical framework and methodology for capability-area reviews is described, along with new tools to support capabilities analysis and strategic-...
From Building Blocks to Composite Options and Preliminary Screening
This report describes a methodology and prototype tool, the Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying good candidate options t...
"I haven't read historical fiction this good since I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves and PERSIAN BOY by Mary Renault--and this is a lot funnier." DETROIT F...
A Programmed Systems Approach
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Exploratory Analysis to Inform Adaptive Strategy for the Persian Gulf
This book discusses how U.S. capabilities for interdicting invading ground forces in the Persian Gulf can be adapted over time to maintain the ability...
His 9 Lives
This paper develops and examines a wide range of strategic options for the defense program and posture....
A Briefing on Methods and Initial Insights
This briefing describes a simple model for aggregate-level capabilities analysis of halt-phase issues; the aim is to accomplish an early halt in the d...
Deterring terrorism is best approached as part of a broad effort to influence all elements of a terrorist system, and simple, conceptual models of dec...
Implications of the New Strategic Environment
The recent changes in Europe have transformed the strategic landscape and altered what can be accomplished with respect to security. This report propo...
A Component in the War on Al Qaeda
This Note is a primer for analysts wishing to use the RAND/ABEL programming language, a fast, high-level, strongly typed procedural language developed...
Capabilities-based planning has become a central theme of defense planning. It is defined in broad terms in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, but o...
This monograph summarizes the findings of a six-month project on deterrence of terrorism conducted jointly by RAND and the Institute for Defense Analy...
This report characterizes the diffusion of use of electronic health records (EHRs). The author uses interviews and surveys and a literature review to ...
Washington, D.C., 5-6 May 1992
An annual services engineering price book. It has been reworked so that the presentation of labour, materials and price now follow the same format as ...
Using and testing a conceptual model that draws on social science and particularly social movement theory, this volume examines public support for al-...
"A first step in dealing with uncertainty is confronting its existence, ubiquity, and magnitude. A second step is dealing with it when informing asses...
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Giving Meaning to Flexibility, Adaptiveness, and Robustness of Capability
This study describes a new approach to defense planning that would better integrate strategic, programmatic, and operations planning. The study recomm...
The DynaRank Decision-support System
DynaRank is a Microsoft Excel based program that allows detailed high-level evaluation of policy options. This report describes the development of Dyn...
Interdiction Model for Exploring Halt Capabilities in a Large Scenario Space
This report documents a relatively simple personal-computer model of interdiction in "the early halt problem"-the military problem of halting an invad...