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Planning for Regional Change in the Far North
"Despite this being a period of generally heightened tensions between Russia and the West, cooperation on Arctic affairs has remained largely intact, ...
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Response Options for Coercive Aggression Below the Threshold of Major War
The United States is entering a period of intensifying strategic competition with several rivals, most notably Russia and China. U.S. officials expect...
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...
National and Regional Security Implications
An Overview of France's Defense Capabilities from a Burdensharing Perspective
The French military currently is one of Western Europe's most capable, and it boasts a full range of capabilities that enable it to engage in the full...
Changes in U.S. Regional Security Policies to Operationalize a Realist Grand Strategy of Restraint
Under a realist grand strategy of restraint, the United States would cooperate more with other powers, reduce its forward military presence, and end s...
Examining the Effects of Technologies on Strategic Deterrence in the 21st Century
The authors examined potential effects that emerging technologies could have on U.S. national security policy and identified long-term effects that th...
Threat Perceptions, Responses, and Strategies in the Wake of the Ukrainian Crisis
This report analyzes how Europeans perceive the Russian threat following the 2014 Ukraine crisis, how European states have responded to Russia's behav...
A RAND Research Primer
Implications for North American and Transatlantic Security
This report assesses China's strategy and diplomacy in the Arctic and the potential implications of Chinese investments and activities there for the r...
An Assessment of Roles and Missions
This report examines the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance's history, activities, and roles to determine how it...
An Assessment
This report assesses U.S. efforts in defense institution building (DIB) in Africa and suggests possible improvements to planning and execution. It def...
Approaches to Engaging Local Actors
The 2012 conflict in northern Mali has shown that many assumptions about Mali's political stability, internal cohesion, and military capabilities were...
Presents an analysis of defense institution building (DIB), recommends goals and objectives, identifies partner nation and DIB activity selection crit...
The five U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Regional Centers for Security Studies have been helping partner nations build strategic capacity for almost ...
Executive Summary
The deterrence of armed conflict has been studied intensively for decades, as have escalation dynamics along the path to such conflicts. The deterrenc...
Improving Counterterrorism Capabilities
"This report examines Mali's counterterrorism requirements in light of recent evolutions in the country's security environment. In spite of the achiev...