| Security in Iraq: A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave |
Jan 2010 |
94 pages |
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David C Gompert; Terrence K Kelly; Jessica Watkins; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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 | A critical question surrounding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq is Iraq's internal security and stability. Although the U.S. withdrawal plan is designed with care to avoid weakening Iraq's security, the end of U.S. occupation may alter the strategies of the main Iraqi political actors, each of which has enough armed power to be able to shatter Iraq's domestic peace. In view of the potential for insecurity in Iraq, ... |
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| Underkill. Scalable Capabilities for Military Operations Amid Populations |
Jan-2009 |
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| Authors:
Raymond Smith; Stuart E Johnson; David C Gompert; Gordon; John IV; Martin C Libicki; David R Frelinger; Camille A Sawak; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | During the first few years of their occupation of Iraq, U.S. military forces proved to be better at killing insurgents than at defeating the insurgents by convincing the Iraqi people to turn against them. As a consequence, the insurgency grew despite its losses, the population's tolerance for the U.S. occupation shrank, and U.S. casualties mounted. At a certain point, a majority of all Iraqis believed that the use of force ... |
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| Oversight of the Liberian National Police |
Jan-2009 |
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David C Gompert; Brooke S Lawson; Robert C Davis; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Liberian National Police (LNP) will become the chief provider of security in Liberia as the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) is reduced.1 Given the LNP's capabilities and complexity, its past manipulation by former President Charles Taylor, and a pattern of police misconduct in much of Africa, the question of oversight is critical. At the request of the U.S. government, RAND analyzed the issue of oversight of the LNP ... |
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| Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency |
Jan-2009 |
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Michelle Parker; David C Gompert; Brooke S Lawson; Terrence K Kelly; Kimberly Colloton; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| this monograph presents a search for ways to improve security for civil aspects of counterinsurgency (COIN)--essential human services, political reform, physical reconstruction, economic development, and indigenous capacity-building--so that it can take place while insurgency is active and dangerous. The importance of this search lies in the fact that civilian counterinsurgency (civil COIN), when combined with military operations, can weaken insurgency. Thus, COIN as a whole is more likely to succeed ... |
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| Withdrawing from Iraq: Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies |
Jan-2009 |
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Walter L Perry; Eric Peltz; Terrence K Kelly; Dalia D Kaye; Robert E Hunter; John IV; Gordon; David C Gompert; Keith Crane; Stuart E Johnson; Howard J Shatz; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| This monograph looks at three alternative schedules for the drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq, judges the risks associated with each, and recommends ways to reduce those risks. The three alternatives are as follows: combat units are drawn down in 12 months, combat units are drawn down in 16 months, and some combat units are retained for 32 months. In each alternative, all U.S. military forces will be withdrawn from ... |
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| Developing Resource-Informed Strategic Assessments and Recommendations |
01-Jan-2008 |
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| Authors:
Duncan Long; Paul K Davis; Stuart E Johnson; David C Gompert; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| The United States will soon be conducting another major review of national-security strategy. It will be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to provide resource-informed assessments and recommendations to the Secretary of Defense and the President. This monograph illustrates newly developed methods and tools to support the chairman's efforts. We sought a way to compare strategies that would integrate expectations about effectiveness, risks, and ... |
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| Analysis of Strategy and Strategies of Analysis |
01-Jan-2008 |
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Duncan Long; Paul K Davis; Stuart E Johnson; David C Gompert; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| This monograph explores new ideas for analyzing national defense strategy, building on concepts that enjoy credence in the defense world while borrowing other concepts from the business world. It is the companion of a longer analytical report on the same subject. Both result from a study of how to assess the implications of national defense strategy, conducted by RAND at the behest of the Joint Staff's J-8 and the Office ... |
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| Clean, Lean and Able: A Strategy for Defense Sector Development |
Jan-2004 |
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| Authors:
Olga Oliker; David C Gompert; Anga Timilsina; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| While there are many reasons why the heady expectations of a decade ago have not been realized, the one this paper confronts is the ineffective, wasteful, unaccountable, and often kleptocratic character of the defense institutions, including military services, of many developing countries. These institutions sit at the nexus of security and development, and they are capable of hurting both. The pages that follow diagnose what is wrong with the defense ... |
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