2013-04-14T12:38:08Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/v/vick_alan_j.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1606.html 2002-01-01T12:01:00Z 2002-01-01T12:01:00Z

Assesses how rapidly the Army's new medium-weight Stryker Brigade can be deployed by air or sealift from planned bases in the United States versus forward bases in key regions and explores how rapidly large U.S. forces need to deploy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1398.html 2001-01-01T12:01:46Z 2001-01-01T12:01:46Z

This book seeks to identify concepts and technologies that could improve the USAF's capability to detect, classify, recognize, and defeat elusive targets, whether dispersed ground forces or mobile ballistic missiles.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1187.html 2002-01-01T12:05:16Z 2002-01-01T12:05:16Z

This study sought to help the USAF better understand how the urban physical, social, and political environment constrains aerospace operations and to identify key operational tasks that aerospace forces can help accomplish.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR842.html 1997-01-01T12:01:38Z 1997-01-01T12:01:38Z

To help the USAF better understand the effects of current MOOTW on training and readiness, to explore some options to reduce those effects, and to propose new concepts of operations to enhance USAF capabilities to accomplish future MOOTW tasks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR697.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The objective of this effort was to explore the signatures and vulnerabilities of adversary light forces, to identify promising sensor and weapon technologies applicable to this target set, and to develop new concepts of operation (OPCONs).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR606.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explores the possibility that future adversaries will use ground attacks on U.S. Air Force (USAF) bases as at least a partial countermeasure to overwhelming U.S. air superiority.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR553.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This report presents a comprehensive overview of ground attacks on air bases from the first known attacks in 1940 to the most recent in 1992.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG301.html 2005-02-28T07:58:00Z 2005-02-28T07:58:00Z

Creating a new partnership to integrate air operations with ground fire and maneuver more effectively on future battlefields.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG499.html 2007-04-08T19:29:00Z 2007-04-08T19:29:00Z

The promotion of democracy and freedom abroad will continue to require changes in how U.S. armed forces are organized and employed and how the services relate to one another and to U.S. allies.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/05/25/AT.html 2012-05-25T17:41:00Z 2012-05-25T17:41:00Z

The relocation of the Marines is a first step toward a more sustainable US military presence in the Asia-Pacific. Yet policymakers in Washington and Tokyo should not expect this move to eliminate an enduring source of tension in US-Japanese relations, write Stacie L. Pettyjohn and Alan J. Vick.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7868.html 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the end of the Cold War, U.S. defense planning has shifted from a focus on a major war against the Soviet Union and her allies to preparations for Major Regional Contingencies in the Persian Gulf and Far East. These preparations are severely con...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2698.html 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considers what effect confidence- and security-building measures (CBMs) might have on the achievement of U.S. objectives in situations of crisis or conflict.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2113.html 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Note examines some problems associated with the application of the concept of confidence building to strategic nuclear force operations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB210.html 2007-03-27T23:11:00Z 2007-03-27T23:11:00Z

This research brief assesses the primary challenges to U.S. security in the emerging security environment and offers suggestions for how the U.S. strategy and the defense program should be adjusted in order to meet these challenges.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB22.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shows that ground attacks on air bases have been much more frequent and successful than is commonly appreciated.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB211.html 2006-08-31T16:32:00Z 2006-08-31T16:32:00Z

This research brief examines ways the U.S. Air Force can contribute to allies' conterinsurgency efforts by providing advice; education; and, when necessary, physical and technological assistance to partner-nation air forces.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB170.html 2005-11-25T10:57:00Z 2005-11-25T10:57:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB76-1.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summary of "Aerospace Operations Against Elusive Ground Targets," which seeks to identify concepts and technologies that could improve the United States Air Force's capability to detect, classify, recognize, and defeat elusive targets.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB33.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB48.html 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Study of USAF involvement in military operations other than war delineates the challenges facing the USAF at this optempo level and offers new approaches aimed not only at minimizing existing problems but also at enhancing USAF MOOTW capabilities.