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Competing from Advantageous Ground
As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to...
Current Practices and Possible Responses
"The United States today faces a number of actors who employ a wide range of political, informational, military, and economic measures to influence, c...
Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza
This report describes how the Israel Defense Force fought an adaptive hybrid adversary in a dense urban setting under intense public scrutiny during i...
Understanding the Threat
This report examines current Russian hostile measures in Europe and forecasts how Russia might threaten Europe using these measures over the next few ...
Although portrayals of Russia's disinformation machine as organized and well-resourced are exaggerated, social media disinformation can cause serious ...
Combating Russian Gray Zone Aggression Against NATO in the Contact, Blunt, and Surge Layers of Competition
Russia's conventional capabilities pose a serious threat to NATO that remains mostly untested. Where it has historically succeeded is in using various...
How the Past Can Inform the Present and Future
Provides a historical analysis of how militaries have deployed light and mechanized infantry with armored forces during close urban combat, to identif...
Project Overview and Conclusions
This report is the overview in a series that seeks to answer questions about the future of warfare, including who might be the United States' adversar...
Lessons from 13 Years of War
This study formulates seven lessons from the past 13 years of war and identifies critical requirements for land forces, special operations forces, and...
The Changing Global Environment and Its Implications for the U.S. Air Force
This volume of the Future of Warfare series explains six trends--U.S. polarization, China's rise, Asia's realignment, a revanchist Russia, upheaval in...
The Changing Global Environment and Its Implications for the U. S. Air Force
This volume of the Future of Warfare series examines significant factors shaping military trends over the next 10-15 years: changes in the size, quali...
This volume of the Future of Warfare series examines significant environmental and geographic trends that could affect U.S. national security, includi...
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Study Overview and Conclusions
How are state adversaries using disinformation on social media to advance their interests? What does the Joint Force-and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in ...
The French Army has been developing and fielding networked warfare technology since the 1990s and now boasts both considerable experience using the te...
Assessing the Prospects for Great Power Cooperation in an Era of Competition--A Project Overview
To what extent can the United States still cooperate with China and Russia even in this era of strategic competition? This report, the first of a four...
This report explores the history and politics behind the post-Cold War history of defense reviews to understand how they evolved, what they can and ca...
Volume 7, Executive Summary for Additional Case Studies
The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform asked RAND for an independent analysis of PPBE-like functions in selec...
This report explores the potential for competition and conflict among the United States, China, and Russia in Africa; where and why competition might ...
An Abbreviated Report of the Study's Primary Findings
Presents findings from six historical case studies in which the mission of special operations forces in each of the six countries transitioned over ti...
This report explores where the United States, China, and Russia may be competing for influence in secondary theaters; where and why competition might ...
Executive Summary
The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform asked the RAND Corporation for an independent analysis of PPBE-like fu...
If there is a set of issues where great power cooperation could be most likely, it should be in the global commons. Global commons issues are-by defin...
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...
Emerging Opportunities for Engagement
This report examines the impact of renewed tension between NATO and Russia on key allies and partners in central and northeastern Europe to identify h...
This report explores the potential for competition among the United States, China, and Russia in the Middle East; where and why competition might turn...
Can the United States find ways to cooperate with China or Russia in Europe and the Middle East? Using official U.S., Chinese, and Russian policy docu...
Case Studies of China and Russia, Volume 1
In this first volume of four reports examining nine case studies of budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND Corporation researchers...
Characteristics of Success
"The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a new round of strategic planning, under the auspices of its 2015 Strategic Master Plan (SMP), to help set the fut...
This report explores the potential for competition and conflict among the United States, China, and Russia in Latin America; where competition might t...
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...
Additional Case Studies of Selected Non-Dod Federal Agencies
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) System is a key enabler for DoD to fulfill its mission. Bu...
Past, Present, and Future
This report examines the history of strategic planning efforts in the U.S. Air Force. Ultimately, this report argues that the Air Force still needs st...
The United States confronts the most challenging strategic environment since the Cold War, with simultaneous threats across the Indo-Pacific, Europe, ...
Case Studies of Selected Allied and Partner Nations, Volume 2
In this second volume of four reports examining nine case studies of defense budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND researchers co...
Case Studies of Selected Non-Dod Federal Agencies
This report, part of a four-volume set, presents case studies of planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) functions in four federal agen...