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Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign against former Soviet states that includes news tweets, nonattributed comments on web pages, trol...
Testimony presented before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on August 1, 2018....
A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity
The authors reviewed literature on White identity terrorism and racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE) and analyzed social media d...
Combat Stress Reactions and Their Implications for Urban Warfare
Combat stress casualties are not necessarily higher in city operations than operations on other types of terrain. Commanders and NCOs need to have the...
American Muslims have played an important role in helping to counter extremism and are increasingly using social media to this end. RAND researchers r...
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...
The Russian government's campaigns of disinformation--political, social, religious, or otherwise--have found a comfortable home on social media. This ...
Improving Machine Learning to Detect and Understand Online Conspiracy Theories
Using linguistic and rhetorical theory, researchers developed an improved model of machine-learning technology to detect conspiracy theory language. T...
Challenges and Best Practices from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Colombia
This report summarizes key special operations forces (SOF) partnering practices and presents findings from case studies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Colo...
The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation
Virtually every action, message, and decision of a military force shapes the opinions of an indigenous population: strategic communication, treatment ...
A Study of the Motivations and Experiences of Junior Enlisted Personnel in the U.S. Army
Who joins the Army, why, and how satisfied are they with their decisions? This study's portrayal of U.S. Army privates could serve as an educational t...
This report examines the debate about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Arabic Twitter and uses a mixed-methods analytic approach to ident...
Assessing the Use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
This report examines the use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Afghanistan. It explores the effectiveness of CERP in supporting ...
Best Practices from the Special Operation's Advisory Experience in Afghanistan
Identifies best practices for Special Operations Advisory Groups, which are tasked with advising headquarter elements of the Afghan Special Security F...
Interviews with Former Extremists and Their Families on Radicalization and Deradicalization
Terrorism and ideologically inspired violence are persistent and serious threats to U.S. national security. This report uses interviews to explore why...
Experimentally Testing the Impact of Russian Propaganda and Counter-Interventions
This report, the third in a series, describes a study designed to assess how people react to and engage with Russia's online propaganda. Media literac...
Using Social Bots to Fight Violent Extremism
As the online recruitment of violent extremist organizations grows, the U.S. government may benefit from promising emerging technology tools to rapidl...
Using an Online Panel Survey to Assess a Social Media Counter-Messaging Campaign
This report presents the results of an evaluation designed to assess the effects of countering violent extremism-themed social media content used in a...
The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help programs assess whether their ...
Stories of Service from the Junior Ranks of Today's Army
This volume tells the stories of six soldiers in their own words. While a separate RAND Arroyo Center report details the service experiences of 81 jun...
Evaluation of a Philippines-Based Tech Camp Training and Peace Promotion Fellowship
This report contains an evaluation of and recommendations from a countering violent extremism (CVE)-themed set of tech camps and fellowships in the Ph...
Results from Interviews with Members of a Nationally Representative Survey of the U.S. Veteran Community
The report examines how U.S. military veterans describe their endorsement of extremist beliefs, their experiences in the military and in transition to...
Lessons for Future Conflict
Russia has disseminated large volumes of false content targeted at Ukrainians, those living in Russia, and global audiences, including those in the Un...
Best Practices for Managing Relief in Place/Transfer of Authority
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Social movement research is becoming increasingly important, as information and communications technologies (ICTs) have altered the ways movements for...
This report describes responses to both Russian memes designed to breed dissension and a public service announcement warning about threats from foreig...