2012-05-10T18:03:04Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/q/quinlivan_james_t.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/04/27/WP.html 2007-04-27T18:38:00Z 2007-04-27T18:38:00Z

The Counterinsurgency Fight: Think Globally, Lose Locally, in Washingtonpost.com.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2005/01/15/UPI.html 2005-01-15T21:05:00Z 2005-01-15T21:05:00Z

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3877.html 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The recent revolution in the political affairs of the Soviet Union and its relationship to the United States, together with budgetary pressures, highlight the necessity for new decisions with respect to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6831.html 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual approach to plausible reasoning is to associate a validity measure with each fact or rule, and to compute from these a validity measure for any deduction that is made. This approach is shown to be inappropriate for some classes of problems...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7579.html 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Western analysts perceive the Soviet air defense (PVO) as an anachronistic organization incapable of dealing with the advanced weapons now under development in the United States. PVO is not as irrelevant as such a statement may suggest. The new ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7596.html 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rust incident of 1987 highlighted training deficiences of the Soviet Air Defense Force and produced a new Air Defense Force commander, General of the Army Ivan Tret'yak. General Tret'yak has introduced a new realism into training and a new openne...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP479.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This article investigates the numbers required for stability operations, both for entire countries and individual cities, and explores the implications of those numbers for deployment, rotation, readiness, and personnel retention.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP844.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of Middle Eastern states — e.g., Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia — seem to be "coup-proof." That is, their regimes have created structures that minimize the possibility that a small group can seize power.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7902.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as the established nuclear powers reduce total nuclear arsenals and nuclear force readiness, there are renewed worries about nuclear weapons proliferation in former Soviet states marked by economic and political upheaval and in the Middle East.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7192.html 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discusses the taran, an aerial ramming tactic used by the Soviet Air Force in World War II.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1087.html 2011-06-07T00:01:00Z 2011-06-07T00:01:00Z

As Iran's nuclear program evolves, U.S. decisionmakers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and trade-offs. The U.S. Air Force will need to prepare to carry out whatever policies are chosen.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2002-04.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suggests that the new national agenda of high-stakes testing in K-12 schools may be more of an academic hindrance than a help; also discusses ways to take the profit out of WMD proliferation, U.S. Army logistics, and the 2002 general election.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2003-08.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discusses how lessons from the past have not yet been applied to American efforts at nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq; also examines troop deployment, infectious diseases, workers' compensation, and the health consequences of prisoner release.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2004-08.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presents data that communities can use to improve the quality of local health care, enumerates conditions that would justify a military draft, suggests ways to improve policy research, and discusses the future of American civil justice.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2008-08.html 2008-08-01T14:22:00Z 2008-08-01T14:22:00Z

The cover story contains 11 essays that forecast 11 ''issues over the horizon''; other articles discuss the invisible wounds of war, visions of the future, colleges in prisons, and nuclear deterrence for the modern age.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1075.html 2011-08-18T09:30:00Z 2011-08-18T09:30:00Z

Examines Russia's evolving framework for nuclear deterrence and its implications for U.S. military operations in Europe.