| Limited Conflicts Under the Nuclear Umbrella. Indian and Pakistani Lessons from the Kargil Crisis |
2001 |
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Ashley J. Tellis; C. C. Fair; Jamison J. Medby; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | This report presents the results of a quick-turnaround study conducted by RAND at the request of the U.S. government in the months leading up to the November 2000 presidential election in the United States. The study was intended to support a variety of internal reviews and briefings that took place around the time of the election. The broad purpose of the study was to understand how India and Pakistan viewed ... |
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| India's Emerging Nuclear Posture Between Recessed Deterrent and Ready Arsenal |
2001 |
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| Authors:
Ashley J. Tellis; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Military Expenditures and Economic Growth |
2001 |
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| Authors:
Jasen Castillo; Julia Lowell; Ashley J. Tellis; Jorge Munoz; Benjamin Zycher; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report presents an exploration of the historical relationship between national economic growth and military expenditures in five "great power" countries: Germany, France, Russia, Japan, and the United States. Using statistical as well as case study methodologies, it examines how each country's military expenditures responded to increases in output levels and rates of growth over the period 1870-1939 and proposes plausible explanations for the relationship in each country. If the ... |
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| Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age |
2000 |
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Ashley J. Tellis; Janice Bially; Christopher Layne; Melissa McPherson; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| The arrival of postindustrial society has given rise to the suspicion that the traditional bases of national power have been fundamentally transformed and, as such, that the indices used to measure the relative power of national should be reassessed as well. This suspicion has special resonance given the fact that countries like the Soviet Union and Iraq, classified as relatively significant powers by some aggregate indicators of capability, either collapsed ... |
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| Anticipating Ethnic Conflict |
1997 |
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Ashley J. Tellis; Thomas S. Szayna; James A. Winnefeld; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report is the final product of a year-long project entitled "Ethnic Conflict and the Processes of State Breakdown: Improving Army Planning and Preparation," which sought to help Army intelligence analysts who monitor intrastate (including ethnically based) conflict potential around the world. The work of these analysts has grown more important since the end of the Cold War, as the U.S. Army has become increasingly engaged in peacekeeping and peace ... |
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| Stability in South Asia |
97 |
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Ashley J. Tellis; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This research effort seeks to understand the logic and prospect of deterrence breakdown in South Asia. It examines the nature of the security competition between India and Pakistan; the military capabilities of both states and the impact of such capabilities on decisions relating to war and peace; the national strategies of both countries and how those strategies contribute to the ongoing competition; and the key indicators that the intelligence community, ... |
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| Strategic Exposure. Proliferation around the Mediterranean |
96 |
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Ian O. Lesser; Ashley J. Tellis; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| A leading post-Cold War security interest of U.S. policymakers and strategists is the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and the means for their delivery at ever longer ranges. For the military services, including the U.S. Army, proliferation trends and their regional effects are matters of great operational and strategic significance, with serious implications for U.S. freedom of action in future crises. Nowhere is the ... |
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