RAND: Thomas L. McNaugher 2013-04-15T07:27:22Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/mcnaugher_thomas_l.html Agility by a Different Measure: Creating a More Flexible U.S. Army http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP195.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Recent deployments of military units to overseas noncombat operations-including Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo-have placed new and unanticipated stresses on U.S. armed forces. The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1657.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z How should the Army transform to meet the new strategic challenges? Scenario Agent: A Rule-Based Model of Political Behavior For Use in Strategic Analysis http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1781.html 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This report discusses two applications of a cost-estimating model that incorporates quantitative measures of an engine's performance. Collaborative Development of Main Battle Tanks: Lessons from the U. S.-German Experience, 1963-1978 http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1680.html 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Examines the U.S.-West German effort to collaborate in the development of main battle tanks. The Army and Operations Other Than War: Expanding Professional Jurisdiction http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1062.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The author examines challenges to the U.S. Army in the light of repeated military operations other than war (MOOTW) missions. The Use of Prototypes in Weapon System Development http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2345.html 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z This study examines the role of prototypes in the contemporary environment of weapon system acquisition. Business and bureaucracy: a limited critique of Charles Lindblom's Politics and Markets http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6467.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of a series of critiques of Lindblom's book written for Georgetown University's Ethics and Public Policy Center. Lindblom's work emphasizes, among other things, what the author sees as the overwhelming reactionary power of the business elite in ... Marksmanship, McNamara, and the M16 Rifle: Organizations, Analysis, and Weapons Acquisition http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6306.html 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z This essay explores the way in which large organizations adapt to innovation by focusing on the U.S. Army's purchase of the M16 rifle. Modernizing NATO's Long-Range Theater Nuclear Forces: An Assessment http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6486.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Analyzes the political and military background of the decision by the NATO Foreign and Defense Ministers, in December 1979, to modernize NATO's long-range theater nuclear forces (LRTNF), in response to the Soviet threat.