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European Vulnerabilities to Russian Pressures
Given Russiaโs annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in eastern Ukraine, Europe must reassess its approach to a regional security environmen...
Changing Czech Views of Security, Military & Defence
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Does it Exist, Why, and Does it Matter?
What is the potential for a divergence in views among civilian and military elites (sometimes referred to as the civil-military gap) to undermine mili...
This report assesses challenges for unit cohesion from integrating women into special operations forces and provides analytical support for validating...
The research reveals that both Poland and Germany view PfP as the first step on a path to NATO membership for at least some of the partner countries, ...
Doctrinal and Interagency Issues
In 2004-2006, the U.S. government acted to revise the way that the planning and implementation of Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstruct...
How can the Army help make key civilian agencies more capable partners in stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) operations? The a...
Determinants and Implications for Defense Planning and Shaping
Having committed itself to gradual enlargement in 1994, NATO took the important step of admitting Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic as members i...
A Framework for Analysis
The potential emergence of a peer competitor is probably the most important long-term planning challenge for the Department of Defense. This report ad...
A Conference Report
This report summarizes the results of a workshop entitled "Civil-Military Relations and the Development of National Security Policy in the United Stat...
Developing U.S. Civilian Personnel Capabilities
Uses the Office of Personnel Management's Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework, which advocates strategic alignment, workforce planni...
This report provides a practical tool--a guidebook and a methodology to follow--to help intelligence analysts determine the long-term potential for co...
The Muslim Dimension
"There is an ongoing debate about the effects of U.S. military presence on conflict around the globe. In one view, U.S. military presence helps to det...
The Partnership for Peace (PfP) program can be seen as a lens for examining the larger security policy debates in Poland and Germany. This documented ...
A Framework and U.S. Policy Options
This report provides an analytic framework for thinking about the potential for militarized ethnic conflict in the central part of Europe and the Balk...
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...
Recommendations for Strengthening Army Engagement
The U.S. Army's global landpower network concept integrates, sustains, and advances the Army's efforts to meet U.S. national security guidance emphasi...
Insights from Forward-Deployed Sof Personnel SOF Personnel
RAND Corporation researchers identified three key operational challenges that forward-deployed personnel have encountered and then assessed the extent...
This report analyzes the discussions between Polish and U.S. security experts during a conference on The Military and National Security Policy, held i...
Regional Conflict Trends and U.S. Defense Planning
This report analyzes trends in violent conflict and their implications for defense planning. It presents models estimating levels of conflict to 2040 ...
Based on comparative lessons from other transitions from communism, the process of reform in Leninist societies may be divided into two main stages: t...
Implications for the United States
The armed forces were among the institutions most profoundly affected by the collapse of communist rule throughout Eastern Europe. The authors focus o...
The January 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance calls for small-footprint, low-cost approaches where possible in ensuring U.S. security in a 21st-century ...
An Empirical Assessment of Historical Conflict Patterns and Future Conflict Projections
Based on conflict projections through 2040, this report concludes that despite the generally declining incidence of armed conflict, the Army must prep...
Provides an analytic framework and procedure for the intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that can serve as the basis for IW i...
A Global Survey
An Overview
This report highlights recent RAND Arroyo Center research on the value of the Army's regionally aligned forces to U.S. security cooperation activities...
From a decades-long perspective, the incidence of armed conflict has decreased. Interstate war (that is, war between states) has become a rare event. ...
The Army Vision recognizes explicitly that in future operations, Army forces will perform missions as part of a larger joint-combined- multinational f...
Toward Improved Planning and Management
In the realm of security cooperation--peacetime activities undertaken by the U.S. armed services with other armed forces and countries--the U.S. Army'...
This report examines mechanisms, sources, and inter-Service agreements for funding special operations forces (SOF) operations and provides recommendat...
A Framework for Implementation
To help the Army increase the effectiveness of its security cooperation activities, this report examines when Army security cooperation can have the g...