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How Does the Conflict in Afghanistan Compare to Counterinsurgencies of the Past 30 Years?

An analysis of 30 insurgencies worldwide between 1978 and 2008 determined what factors were ultimately correlated with success or defeat. Comparing Afghanistan in early 2011 against this scorecard results in an uncertain outcome for the conflict there, but the findings may help provide additional guidance as operations continue.

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RAND Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall 1999 — Jan 1, 1999

Discusses how the inequities in HIV care demand remedies for U.S. health care and how quality deficiencies pervade the U.S. health care system, and examines the value of drug prevention programs as a means of solving the problems of substance abuse.

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The Czech Republic: A Small Contributor or a Free Rider? — Jan 1, 1999

Strengths and liabilities that accompany the 1999 addition of the Czech Republic to the ranks of the 16-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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Expeditionary Airpower: A Global Infrastructure to Support EAF — Jan 1, 1999

The United States has entered an entirely new security environment. It is now the only global superpower in a world of many regional powers.

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Assessing Benefits from Health Research Projects: Can We Use Questionnaires Instead of Case Studies? — Jan 1, 1999

An evaluative framework was developed by the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) for the UK's Department of Health (DH) to assess the benefits from DH-funded R&D.

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Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story Tanzeem el usrah fi el namiah: kissat nagah iam tantahi (Arabic version) — Jan 1, 1999

Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story Tanzeem el usrah fi el namiah: kissat nagah iam tantahi (Arabic version)

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Een open dakraam: Voor de verbouwing tot integrale Raad voor de Transportveiligheid [Room in the Attic: An Integral Dutch Transportation Safety Board] — Jan 1, 1999

This study was conducted for the Dutch Transportation and Safety Board (RvTV), in order to analyze the differences which exist between the legal organizational plan of the RvTV and the actual execution of the plan.

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NATO enlargement after the first round — Jan 1, 1999

NATO enlargement after the first round

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Euroland, open for business — Jan 1, 1999

Euroland, open for business

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NATO's Adaptation and Transformation: Key Challenges — Jan 1, 1999

In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on European Affairs, the author concentrates on what he sees as the three main challenges facing NATO.

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The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico — Jan 1, 1998

The Zapatista movement in Mexico is a seminal case of a new mode of conflict -- netwar -- in which the protagonists depend on using network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology.

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Western Europe, 1979-2009: A View from the United States — Jan 1, 1998

As the start of the European Monetary Union (EMU) approaches, Western Europe may be heading for troubles that could extend to the United States. The author derives four scenarios, ranging from a worst case to "a way out".

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The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries — Jan 1, 1998

Family planning programs have been highly successful over the past 30 years in providing women in development countries with desired access to contraceptive services and helping to reduce fertility rates.

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Assessing Requirements for Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Assistance, and Disaster Relief — Jan 1, 1998

To assess requirements for peace operations, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief, then to develop options for conducting such contingencies more effectively without detracting from the nation's capability to conduct major theater warfare.

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NATO's Mediterranean Initiative: Policy Issues and Dilemmas — Jan 1, 1998

This report discusses such issues as drug trafficking, terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the context of past and present NATO Mediterranean initiatives.

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RAND Review: Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1998 — Jan 1, 1998

Special commemorative issue celebrates 50 years of cutting-edge RAND research, how RAND diversified into social welfare research, and identifies important ways in which RAND research will continue to serve the crucial needs of the future.

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Civil-military Relations in the Czech and Slovak Republics — Jan 1, 1998

The Czech case represents a situation in which the military retains only a minor role in domestic politics.

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Healing Sick Institutions — Jan 1, 1998

The author distinguishes inefficient institutions from sick institutions.

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Comments on Reinvigorating State Institutions, By Pradhan — Jan 1, 1998

Pradhan established that institutions and governance make a difference that is quantifiable; this difference makes sense in qualitative economic terms

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