2012-05-10T18:07:54Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/r/ronfeldt_david.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/08/24/UPI.html 2007-08-24T18:30:00Z 2007-08-24T18:30:00Z

The conflict raging in Iraq has been compared to many earlier wars, but the best historical comparison has been largely overlooked, write John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt in a commentary appearing in United Press International.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2006/03/27/CSM.html 2006-03-27T12:00:01Z 2006-03-27T12:00:01Z

Published commentary by RAND staff: Today's Wars Are Less About Ideas Than Extreme Tribalism, in Christian Science Monitor.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/12/12/LAT.html 2004-12-12T18:26:00Z 2004-12-12T18:26:00Z

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2003/09/29/AWST.html 2003-09-29T15:04:00Z 2003-09-29T15:04:00Z

Technological advances often give rise to new types of weapons, but the achievement of lasting breakthroughs in fighting power requires organizational and doctrinal innovation as we.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2003/05/25/LAT.html 2003-05-25T17:26:00Z 2003-05-25T17:26:00Z

commentaries by RAND Staff: insightful commentaries on current events, published in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2000/10/27/LAT.html 2000-10-27T16:01:00Z 2000-10-27T16:01:00Z

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1067.html 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papers on Latin America from a May 1972 Airlie House Conference, as later modified by their authors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1173.html 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A documentary of recent changes in arms-transfer patterns to Latin America, this report explores the political, economic, and military forces of international supply and demand bearing on U.S. competitiveness, the relationship between arms transfers ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2554z1.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A report intended to help officials responsible for nuclear security to establish more effective systems for protecting against nuclear crimes, by drawing plausible inferences about actions and targets that adversaries are likely to prefer.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3420z1.html 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presents the main findings of Castro, Cuba, and the World, RAND/R-3420, which provides a new profile of Fidel Castro's mindset and behavior as a political actor, and assesses Cuba's current domestic and international situations, in order to analyze ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2554.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A report intended to help officials responsible for nuclear security to establish more effective systems for protecting against nuclear crimes, by drawing plausible inferences about actions and targets that adversaries are likely to prefer.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3420.html 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Combines an analysis of Fidel Castro's mindset and patterns of behavior as a political actor with assessments of Cuba's current domestic and international situations, in order to assess Castro's foreign policy options through the late 1980s.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2510z2.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mexico's oil and U.S. policy : implications for the 1980s : executive briefing

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2460.html 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assesses the contributions of improvement in manpower and organization quality to military effectiveness of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, plus Iran and Turkey.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3532.html 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considers the security challenges that Nicaragua might pose to U.S. interests in Central America in the years ahead.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4099.html 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1988, the Mexican-origin population of the United States had grown to 12.1 million, largely from recent sharp increases in immigration.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2887.html 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines the roots of the current immigration policy problem, proposes a new framework of reference for immigration issues, and suggests some central principles for developing an effective policy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2510z1.html 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mexico's petroleum and U.S. policy : implications for the 1980s : executive summary

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4231z1.html 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Castro regime remains in the throes of its worst crisis. The failure of the right-wing Soviet coup and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR at the end of 1991 have left Cuba adrift in the world and its economy in shambles.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R0924.html 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

An assessment of the significance of internal security as a hemisphere-wide rationale and objective for U.S. Military Assistance Programs (MAP) to Latin America.