| U.S. Government Funding of Cooperative Research and Development in NorthAmerica |
1999 |
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Caroline S. Wagner; Nurith Berstein; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | The U.S. government funds cooperative R&D projects in and with counterparts in Canada and Mexico. Since 1993, U.S. government agencies have spent more than $100 million a year on projects involving cooperation with Canada and/or Mexico. A variety of motives and missions drive this investment. The activities funded have been focused primarily on common interests and problems in environmental, agricultural, and earth sciences, as well ... |
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| Blunting the Talons. The Impact of Peace Operations Deployments on USAF Fighter Crew Combat Skills |
1999 |
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John Stillion; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This larger project is designed to provide an analytic structure and support to the Air Force in developing its own, improved system for reporting and managing readiness information for near term readiness assessment. One of its goals is to provide a structure and implement a system that can use the best available information and models to provide readiness assessments for internal Air Force use and for ... |
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| Transforming U.S. Forces Lessons from the Wider Revolution |
1999 |
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David C. Gompert; Irving Lachow; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The so-called revolution in military affairs (RMA) is primarily an information revolution. Therefore, while it is helpful to learn from previous discontinuities in warfare-such as those brought on by aviation and by fast armor-it is just as important to draw lessons from the revolution in nonmilitary affairs being propelled by information technology. This paper does that by sifting through commercial experiences of the last two decades ... |
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| Interagency and International Careers for Military Officers. Feasible and Advisable? |
1999 |
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RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Preserving or strengthening regional stability has become a major goal of U.S. security policy. This task requires a complex blend of economic, diplomatic, and military activities. To enhance the nation's capabilities for such activities, the National Defense Panel recommended establishing a cadre of military officers who are specialists in the interagency or international arena, and Congress asked the Department of Defense to study the feasibility and ... |
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| RAND Research Brief: Perstempo. Does It Help or Hinder Reenlistment? |
1999 |
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RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Having some duty involving lengthy separations from home base or exposure to hostile conditions-but not too much-is a key to reenlistment in all four branches of the U.S. military. As the Pentagon deploys personnel on a widening array of missions, it consequently should attempt to spread the burden of long separations and hostile duty over broad segments of the enlisted force, make these assignments more ... |
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| China's Arms Sales Motivations and Implications |
1999 |
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Daniel L. Byman; Roger Clift; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| China's arms transfers have become the focus of considerable attention. In the 1980s, China emerged as a major supplier of conventional weapons to the developing world. More recently, China's transfers of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology, as well as equipment and materials that could be used in the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons, have seized world attention, particularly in the United States. This study documents ... |
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| Assessing the Progress of New American Schools |
1999 |
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Mark Berends; Joanna Heilbrunn; Christopher J. McKelvey; Thomas Sullivan; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| As a private nonprofit corporation, New American Schools (NAS) began in 1991 to fund the development of designs aimed at transforming entire schools at the elementary and secondary levels. Having completed its competition, development, and demonstration phases, NAS currently is scaling-up its designs to form a critical mass of schools within several partnering districts. The purpose of this report is to describe the baseline characteristics, ... |
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| Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces. An Integrated Strategic AgileCombat Support Planning Framework |
1999 |
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Robert S. Tripp; Lionel Galway; Paul S. Killingsworth; Eric Peltz; Timothy L. Ramey; John G. Drew; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). Although much work remains to define these new responsibilities and prepare Air Force units to meet them, it is clear that the EAF concepts will play a central role in the future Air Force. FAF concepts turn on the premise that rapidly tailorable, quickly deployable, immediately employable, and highly effective ... |
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| Taiwan's National Security, Defense Policy, and Weapons Procurement Processes |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Michael D. Swaine; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report examines Taiwan's national security decision making structure and process and the primary factors guiding its defense strategy, force structure, and military procurement decisions. The analysis attempts to explain the motives and interests determining Taiwan's national security policy and defense plans and its decisions to acquire major weapons and related support systems from foreign sources, especially the United States. |
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| RAND Research Brief: How Did ODS/S Affect the RC? Evidence from the 1992RC Survey |
1999 |
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RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Operation Desert Shield/Storm (ODS/S) was the first major mobilization of reserve forces (the Reserve Components, RC) in almost 50 years. Since then, reservists have participated in numerous other operations, including the recent effort in Bosnia. Such mobilizations are likely to be more frequent in the future and are likely to have important effects on reservists' attitudes and the degree of support they receive from their families ... |
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| RAND Research Brief: Modifying Federal Civil Service Retirement Incentives |
1999 |
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RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| In recent decades, concerns have been expressed about two related labor force problems in the federal civil service: (1) insufficient turnover among mid- and late-career personnel and (2) the loss of key senior personnel to retirement as soon as they become eligible (generally, age 55). Lack of turnover can clog the promotion pipeline, preventing the hiring or advancement of better- trained or more-skilled individuals. The premature loss of ... |
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| Staffing At-Risk School Districts in Texas: Problems and Prospects |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Sheila N. Kirby; Scott Naftel; Mark Berends; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The research reported here was supported by Grant No. R3O6F6O175 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement's Field Initiated Studies Grant Program. Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st century. Over the next decade, we will need about two million new teachers, largely because of a dramatic increase in enrollments and high attrition rates ... |
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| Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) The Programming Phase |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Leslie Lewis; Roger A. Brown; John Y. Schrader; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This project was part of a special assistance activity for the Director of the U.S. Army's Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate (PA&E) conducted beginning in 1995 and continuing into 1997. The purpose of this project was to assist the Director of PA&E in creating a new program development process and methodology. The director's principal objective in this project was to improve the Army's Program Objective Memorandum ... |
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| Training Requirements and Training Delivery in the Total Army School System |
1999 |
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John D. Winkler; John F. Schank; Michael G. Mattock; Rodger A. Madison; L. D. Green; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report analyzes training requirements and school delivery of training in the Total Army School System, focusing on the system's ability to meet its training requirements in Reserve Component Training Institutions. Two types of training are the subject of this research. The first is the education of Reserve Component noncommissioned officers (NCOs). The second is reclassification training of soldiers who previously held one military occupational specialty (MOS) but who now ... |
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| Barriers to Minority Participation in Special Operations Forces |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Margaret C. Harrell; Sheila Nataraj Kirby; Jennifer S. Sloan; Clifford M. Graf Ii; Christopher J. McKelvey; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| RAND's National Defense Research Institute was asked to assess minority representation and recruiting in special operations forces. Our study is a quantitative and qualitative research effort to evaluate the level of minority representation in special operations forces and the reasons for current representation and to suggest policy changes that might, if necessary, increase minority representation in these forces. The study may be of interest to other agencies or organizations concerned ... |
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| The Total Army School System: Recommendations for Future Policy |
1999 |
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| Authors:
John D. Winkler; Michael G. Shanley; John F. Schank; James C. Crowley; Michael G. Mattock; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The United States Army operates an extensive system of schools and centers that provide military education and training to soldiers in the Active Component and the two Reserve Components, the U.S. Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve. This system includes Reserve Component (RC) training institutions that provide reclassification training for enlisted personnel who change military occupational specialties and leader training for both commissioned and noncommissioned officers. As the ... |
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| The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age |
1999 |
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James C. Mulvenon; Richard H. Yang; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This volume is the product of a conference, jointly sponsored by the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy (CAPP) and the Taiwan-based Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS), held in San Diego, California, from 9-12 July 1998. The meeting brought together Chinese military experts to discuss a subject too long ignored: the non-hardware side of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) modernization. The result is a comprehensive examination of the critical ... |
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| Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insights from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service |
1999 |
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Edward G. Keating; Susan M. Gates; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is a defense agency created in 1991 to provide finance and accounting services (e.g., personnel and contract payments, trial balances, travel voucher handling) for the Department of Defense (DoD). DFAS agglomerated what had been service-specific facilities and personnel providing such services. DFAS is also a Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) activity, which recovers its operating costs through customer fees. |
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| Air Power as a Coercive Instrument |
1999 |
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Daniel L. Byman; Matthew C. Waxman; Eric Larson; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| As part of this larger study, members of the research team explored the role of air power as a coercive instrument. In recent years, decision makers have called on the USAF to play a major role in attempting to coerce foes in the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Africa, and Europe. Although the United States and the USAF have scored some notable successes, the record is mixed. The purpose of ... |
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| NATO and Caspian Security. A Mission Too Far? |
1999 |
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Richard Sokolsky; Tanya Charlick-Paley; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The West's growing interest in the Caspian Basin and NATO's increasing concern with challenges on its periphery raise an important question for the Atlantic Alliance as it ponders its future role, commitments, and security responsibilities: Given the nature of the West's security interests in the Caspian and Central Asia regions and the potential threats to those interests, what role should NATO play in a broader Western security strategy for the ... |
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| Chinese Policy Toward Russia and the Central Asian Republics |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Mark Burles; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report examines the foundations of the People's Republic of China's policies toward Russia and the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In addition, it discusses what factors will determine the evolution of China's relationships with these countries and how they might affect U.S. regional or global interests. The study was conducted in the Strategy and Doctrine Program of Project AIR FORCE. Comments may ... |
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| Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Daniel L. Byman; Jerrold D. Green; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report assesses the threat of political violence in the northern Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. It examines general sources of discontent in the Gulf, common reasons for anti-regime politicization, potential triggers of violence, and the influence of foreign powers. The report then assesses those strategies that regimes in the area have used to interfere with political organization and to counter violence ... |
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| Innovative Management in the DARPA High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program. Phase 2 Experience |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Jeffrey A. Drezner; Geoffrey Sommer; Robert S. Leonard; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Improving acquisition policy, processes, and management requires the accumulation of experience from ongoing or recently completed projects, especially those involving unusual situations or innovative acquisition policies. This research contributes to that understanding through its close work with the DARPA High Altitude Endurance (HAE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program office, whose acquisition strategy represents a radical departure from normal Department of Defense (DoD) procedures. The objectives of this research are to ... |
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| Marine Corps Sourcing Competitions Historical Performance and Directions for Improvement |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Nancy Y. Moore; Rick Eden; Mark Wang; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has long recognized the need to save money wherever possible. Indeed, the USMC prides itself on doing the most with the fewest resources. But, pressure is growing to do so even more. The USMC needs to find funds to modernize itself. With the deficit and growing entitlement programs continuing to exert budget pressures to reduce costs, budget increases are unlikely. Finding savings in the ... |
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| Securing the U.S. Defense Information Infrastructure: A Proposed Approach |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Robert H. Anderson; Phillip M. Feldman; Scott Gerwehr; Brian Houghton; Richard Mesic; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report addresses the survivability and assured availability of essential U.S. information infrastructures, especially when they are under various forms of "information warfare" attack. To the best of our knowledge, the term "minimum essential information infrastructure" (MEII) was coined by one of the authors (Mesic) as part of the planning for a series of "Day After. in Cyberspace" information warfare exercises conducted from 1995 to the present under the direction ... |
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| A Description of U.S. Enlisted Personnel Promotion Systems |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Stephanie Williamson; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This document summarizes the requirements for promotion of enlisted personnel within each of the services of the U.S. military. This document is not a historical review and does not assess or evaluate the promotion systems. Furthermore, this document does not address the enlisted promotion systems used for the reserves. There is marked variety in the specific requirements for promotion across services. However, there is similarity in the tiered structure of ... |
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| Military Compensation Trends and Policy Options |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Beth J. Asch; James R. Hosek; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Today's military forces are being called upon to engage in a wide variety of small- scale contingencies yet remain in readiness for major theater wars. In addition, the military forces have embarked on a far-reaching program of modernization that will introduce new weapons systems over the next decade and beyond. The diversity of today's military operations, the threat of major theater war, and the program of modernization all draw attention ... |
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| Past Revolutions, Future Transformations. What Can the History of Revolutions in Military Affairs Tell us about Transforming the U.S. Military? |
1999 |
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Richard O. Hundley; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| As the Gulf War showed, advances in technology can bring about dramatic changes in military operations. Such technology-driven changes in military operations will continue to bestow a military advantage on the first nation to develop and use them. Accordingly, the vitality and robustness of the U.S. defense posture depend on the DoD R&D community being on the leading edge of breakthrough technologies that could revolutionize military operations. Also,the U.S. military ... |
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| Financial Management Problems Among Enlisted Personnel |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Peter Tiemeyer; Casey Wardynski; Richard Buddin; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This documented briefing describes the financial well being of enlisted military personnel and is based on a presentation given to the MilitarySummit on Personal Financial Management Conference on December 16, 1997. The study provides evidence of the extent of personal financial problems in the military. The analysis describes how financial problems vary with the demographics of the military and with particular aspects of the military work environment (e.g., deployments, frequent ... |
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| Planning America's Security; Lessons from the National Defense Panel |
1999 |
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| Authors:
John E. Tedstrom; John G. McGinn; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report reviews recent longer-term U.S. defense planning attempts, focusing especially on the NDP. The NDP was established as an independent effort to provide guidance to the Secretary of Defense and the Congress on matters pertaining to the long-term national security of the United States. This report reviews the motivations for creating the NDP, the NDP's relationship to the QDR, the NDP's administrative and logistical experience, and the substantive results ... |
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| Countering the New Terrorism |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Ian O. Lesser; Bruce Hoffman; John Arquilla; David Ronfeldt; Michele Zaninl; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| RAND's research on terrorism formally began in 1972. Two bloody terrorist incidents that year-the Japanese Red Army attack on passengers at the Lod Airport in Israel and the seizure of Israeli athletes by Black September terrorists at the Olympics in Munich-signaled dramatically to the world that a new mode of warfare had begun. Reacting to this new threat, then President Nixon created the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism, a high ... |
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| The RAND Forum on Cuba |
1999 |
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| Authors:
Edward Gonzalez; Richard A. Nuccio; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| In February, April, and May 1998, members of the policy community gathered together to participate in "The RAND Forum on Cuba." The participants consisted of Congressional staff members, State Department and NSC officials, members of the intelligence community, former Ambassadors and other former government officials, non-government foreign policy generalists, academic specialists on Cuba, and representatives of non-governmental organizations dealing with Cuba. The purpose of the Forum was to: (1) increase ... |
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| Analyzing the Effects of Airfield Resources on Airlift Capacity |
1999 |
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| Authors:
James P. Stucker; Laura M. Williams; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Airlift capacity-the number of passengers and the number of tons of cargo that can be delivered to a specific location in a specific period of time- depends on the characteristics of (a) the cargoes to be delivered, (b) the airfields and the routes linking the cargo originations with the cargo destinations, (c) the ground resources at the airfields supporting the air assets, and (d) the air ... |
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| Building a New Vision for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Options for Key Policy Decisions |
SEP 1998 |
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Lloyd Dixon; Jim Dewar; Ellen Pint; Robert Reichardt; Ed Edelman; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) is currently reevaluating its vision for its role in the Southern California water industry. This vision is about how water is priced and allocated in Southern California. It is about the set of policies and programs that determine infrastructure investments and how they are paid for. And, perhaps most fundamentally, it is about the division of responsibilities ... |
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| A Strategy for Improving Interoperability of Weapons Systems Electronics |
12 MAY 1998 |
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| Authors:
Iris Kameny; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Charting Alternatives to a Segregated School Admissions Policy: Where Demographic Analysis Fits In |
MAR 1998 |
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| Authors:
Peter A. Morrison; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This paper illustrates how demographic analysis and data get applied in affirmative action disputes. The focus is a racially-based quota system for admitting applicants to a public school program offering accelerated learning to gifted and exceptional students. The paper evaluates the effects of this quota system on the admission of qualified nonminority applicants and considers the feasibility of alternatives for maintaining racial balance without engaging in purposeful discrimination. The analysis ... |
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| Muddy Learning: Evaluating Learning in Multi-User Computer-Based Environments |
FEB 1998 |
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| Authors:
David McArthur; Matthew Lewis; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Computer based environments where many users interact in real time are growing increasingly popular, especially as more people gain access to networks like the Internet. One class of such technologies, known variously as MUDs (Multiple User Dimension or Multi-User Dungeons and Dragons, take your pick), MUSEs (Multiple User Synthetic Environments), and MOOs (Multi-User Object Oriented), enables users to create new "rooms" in virtual worlds, define their ... |
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| Forecasting the Effects of Army XXI Design Upon Multinational Force Compatibility |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Brian Nichiporuk; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The United States has fought alone before, and it is possible that it will do so again. However, the far greater likelihood is that the United States will fight with an ally or as part of a coalition-another Desert Storm is more likely than another Grenada. Thus, the ability of U.S. forces to operate effectively with those of other nations is an important issue. Unfortunately, doctrinal ... |
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| CVX: Propulsion System Decision. Industrial Base Implications of Nuclearand Non-Nuclear Options |
1998 |
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| Authors:
John Schank; John Birkler; Eiichi Kamiya; Edward Keating; Michael Mattock; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The U.S. Navy is currently in the process of designing its next generation aircraft carrier, termed CVX. One technological advance for the CVX, compared with the current Nimitz class of carriers, is a new propulsion system. To help in deciding between a nuclear and non-nuclear propulsion system for CVX, the Navy asked RAND to determine the effects of the CVX propulsion choice on the industrial bases supporting ... |
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| The United States and a Rising China |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Zalmay M. Khalilzad; Abram N. Shulsky; Daniel L. Byman; Roger Cliff; David T. Orletsky; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report summarizes the findings of a multiyear project entitled "Chinese Defense Modernization and Its Implications for the United States Air Force." It focuses on the fundamental question of how U.S. policy should deal with China, a rising power that could have the capability, in the not too distant future, of challenging the U.S. position in East Asia and U.S. military, political, and economic access to that dynamic and important ... |
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| Defining a Common Planning Framework for the Air Force |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Leslie Lewis; Bruce Pirnie; William Williams; John Schrader; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This research was undertaken at the request of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Planning Directorate. The task objective was to develop and help implement a common Air Force planning framework based on the strategies-to-tasks(STT)framework. Within the Air Force, the resourcing requirements and recommended allocations are developed within the Major Commands (MAJCOMs), and the Headquarters Air Force uses the Corporate Structure and the Air Force Board of Directors to look across ... |
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| The Changing Role of the U.S. Military in Space |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Daniel Gonzales; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This report reviews the dramatic changes occurring in the commercial and foreign space sectors, the ways in which emerging commercial space capabilities can be used by the U.S. military, and what advantages adversaries may gain by exploiting those same capabilities. These changes in the space environment present the Department of Defense (DoD) with opportunities and challenges- challenges and opportunities that are examined in this report with particular reference to the ... |
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| The Changing Role of Information in Warfare |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Zalmay M. Khalilzad; John P. White; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This effort to assess how the role of information in warfare is changing seeks to understand many of the remarkable developments under way in information and communications technology, and their potential effects on warfare. Indeed, this volume reveals several important lessons that can be gleaned from the very different and distinct perspectives contained in it: Information advances will affect more than just how we fight wars. The nature and purpose ... |
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| "We Band of Brothers" The Call for Joint Urban Operations Doctrine |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Russell W. Glenn; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Growing interest in military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT) has spawned a review of U.S. force readiness to conduct missions during such undertakings. Units have too frequently been found to be less able during MOUT training than is desirable. The resultant identification of shortcomings, in turn, has revealed areas requiring improvement. The causes for this condition are multifold, but diagnoses readily point to inadequate training and doctrine as fundamental weaknesses. ... |
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| Air Force Operations Overseas in Peacetime OPTEMPO and Force Structure Implications |
1998 |
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| Authors:
David E. Thaler; Daniel M. Norton; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The post-Desert Storm era increasingly has been characterized by involvement of U.S. military forces in "contingency" operations short of war- activities of prolonged duration to enforce peace agreements and truces, to uphold standards of international conduct, and to provide humanitarian aid. This, together with regular military-to-military interactions and continued basing of forces in Europe and the Pacific, has made it imperative that the defense community assess the implications of ongoing ... |
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| Civilians and Soldiers: Achieving Better Coordination |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Bruce R. Pirnie; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The purpose of this project, sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation, Incorporated, is to examine recent experience in complex contingency operations and develop recommendations that would achieve better coordination among civilians and soldiers. H. Smith Richardson and his wife Grace Jones Richardson established the foundation in 1935. Its mission is to help inform important public policy debates through support of pragmatic, policy-relevant research, analysis, and writing. Grants are channeled through ... |
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| Cuba and Lessons from Other Communist Transitions. A Workshop Report |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Edward Gonzalez; Thomas S. Szayna; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Based on comparative lessons from other transitions from communism, the process of reform in Leninist societies may be divided into two main stages: * the onset of reform; * the sustaining and deepening of the reform process. The first stage may be marked initially by "tinkering type measures that do not alter significantly the power of the party and the state, but which may be followed by deeper structural reforms ... |
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| Comparing the Costs of DoD Military and Civil Service Personnel |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Susan M. Gates; Albert A. Robbert; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Within the Department of Defense (DoD) there is increasing interest in identifying ways to save costs while minimizing impact on force effectiveness. Civilianization-the transfer of functions performed by military personnel to civil service personnel-is a frequently discussed way to do this for two main reasons: (1) Military members are being moved in and out of jobs frequently, so there is high turnover as well as high training costs. (2) Military ... |
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| To Find, and Not to Yield. How Advances in Information and Firepower can Transform Theater Warfare |
1998 |
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David A. Ochmanek; Edward R. Harshberger; David E. Thaler; Glenn A. Kent; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The military forces of the United States are on the threshold of fielding new capabilities that, in concert, represent a revolutionary transformation in the ability to prosecute large scale theater warfare. These capabilities, if fully exploited, can allow comparatively small numbers of forces to observe, assess, engage, and effectively attack enemy assets especially moving land, sea, and air forces over a large area. These new capabilities are thus well suited ... |
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| Strategic Information Warfare Rising |
1998 |
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| Authors:
Roger C. Molander; Peter A. Wilson; David A. Mussington; Richard F. Mesic; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The objective of this effort was to derive a framework for policy and strategy decision making on problems raised by the emerging potential of Strategic Information Warfare. This study was undertaken in recognition that future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing rapid evolution of cyberspace; the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) and, thus by the growing dependence of the U.S. military and other national ... |
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