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Determining Factors, Future Trajectories, Implications for the United States
China and Russia are perceived as major, long-term competitors with the United States. Since 2014, China and Russia have strengthened their relationsh...
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...
Country Perspectives
The authors examine the nature of the emerging era of international competition, assess the perspectives of the major powers?beginning with the primar...
The Role of Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition
The authors of this report assess the role of U.S. Army special operations forces (ARSOF) in great-power competition, focusing on the types of activit...
Russia has consistently engaged in signaling activities toward the United States and its allies in recent years. The authors analyze this behavior to ...
Improving Effectiveness and Finding Efficiencies
To support defense planners in crafting effective deterrence strategies, RAND researchers assess the impact of U.S. forward presence, exercises and sh...
Rethinking Army and Air Force Roles and Functions
The gap between the growing cruise and ballistic missile threat to U.S. Air Force bases in Europe and the U.S. capacity and capability to counter the ...
The authors identified disputes among roles, missions, and functions (RMF) that have endured as problems for the U.S. Air Force and crafted a framewor...
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...
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...
Risks, Proliferation, Mitigation, and Cost of an Attack
This report provides a summary of the risks, proliferation, costs of man-portable air defense system attacks against commercial aviation targets. It a...
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...
Patterns and Drivers
The authors combined quantitative and qualitative modes of analysis to better understand and anticipate flashpoints with Russia....
"The authors of this report describe strategic global trends related to Russian global influence and behavior and provide an overview and assessment o...