Global security includes military and diplomatic measures that nations and international organizations such as the United Nations and NATO take to ensure mutual safety and security. RAND provides analyses that help policymakers understand political, military, and economic trends around the world; the sources of potential regional conflict; and emerging threats to the global security environment.
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This issue paper discusses what decisions India and Pakistan must make in order to attempt to fulfill these requirements and describes the risks involved in their failure to attain them.
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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.
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Summarizes issues generated during the Army After Next (AAN) Spring Wargame 1998.
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NATO and Caspian Security: A Mission Too Far?
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China's arms sales have become the focus of considerable attention and pose a moderate threat to U.S. interests.
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The report argues that the new Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept requires a complete reexamination of the combat support system, especially the planning framework for combat support.
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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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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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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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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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This volume presents case studies of U.S. and Russian peacekeeping and peacemaking operations since the end of the Cold War.
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The old U.S. grand strategy — its stand against the Soviet Union — has become moot, and a new one must be devised in the face of a changing world. This book discusses this need and examines three possible strategies.
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The typology presented in this report defines five types of peace operations -- observation, interposition, transition, security for humanitarian aid, and peace enforcement -- from an operational perspective.
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U.S.-Russian relations are poised to resume their drift toward mutual alienation in the face of NATO enlargement. Failure to halt the downward spiral soon will jeopardize arms control regimes and erode U.S.-Russian nonproliferation cooperation.
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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.
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The danger of nuclear proliferation from the Former Soviet Union requires continued funding of this initiative.
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This report addresses the question of deterring nuclear attacks by regional adversaries against the United States, U.S. forces overseas, or U.S. allies.
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Topics include the global arms market and a practical approach to its control, relationships between economic and military policy instruments and similar links between economics and security in Central and Eastern Europe.
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This report examines the German debate over peacekeeping, how Germany is moving to shed the constraints on the use of German armed forces, and the potential role that Germany might play in future peace support operations.
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