RAND research on military transformation—the adjustment of a nation's military to achieve a specified objective—analyzes four major issues: force structure, modernization, readiness, and sustainability. RAND provides decisionmakers with recommendations on all aspects of planning and strategy to maximize the effectiveness, continuity, and innovation of a nation's force as it adapts to technological, cultural, and other significant changes.
Examines the British, French, and German armies' approaches to accommodating significant budget cuts while attempting to sustain their commitment to full spectrum operations.
Over the past decade, U.S. Marine Corps intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. A broad review of its design examined how to align it efficiently and effectively with current and future missions and functions.
Analyzes how the Army might use a rotational strategy to reduce equipment in early phases of the Army Force Generation cycle, how changes might be applied to units and equipment, and how changes might affect near- and far-term budgets.
U.S. defense planning is beset with technology-related problems for force projection, obsolescence of forces and concepts of operations, and the need for a new Asian-Pacific strategy. Finding the way ahead amidst fiscal constraints is challenging.
Describes the course offerings and faculty for an intensive weeklong program offered by the Pardee RAND Graduate School in fall 2010.
To assist the Army's move of its Human Resources Command from the Washington, D.C. area to Fort Knox, Kentucky, RAND Arroyo Center produced personnel competency models and a framework for training to support the future delivery of personnel services.
Aims to assist the U.S. Army in understanding
The current U.S. military airlift fleet can perform most counterinsurgency airlift missions effectively but is likely to need reinforcement if such operations continue at current levels.
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.
As the Army transforms its operating force, it must also transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces and to release resources from institutional activities that the Army can use to add new brigades and weapon systems.
Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on September 15, 2005.
Analyzes the contrasting military responses of various militaries to the internal combustion engine between World War I and World War II to illuminate successful strategies and approaches to reengineering (an approach to transformation).
Testimony presented to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on February 6, 2004.
A July 1998 conference, held in San Diego, California, brought together Chinese military experts to discuss the non-hardware side of the People's Liberation Army's modernization.
Military resource allocation choices are often contentious, especially when — as now — international events and domestic budgets require significant changes in the character and capabilities of U.S. military forces.
Examines the Russian military's options for achieving weapons modernization and new weapons development through either a revitalized state military research and development (R&D) sector or a robust civil scientific and technical (S&T) sector.
Compares the financial requirements of German, British, and French military modernization goals into the next century with a range of budgetary resources, assuming that current capabilities have been sufficient to deter aggressive action ...
This paper is the text of a presentation before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, Economics and Trade, on September 19, 1987. It examines the interrelationship between the two aspects of Mikhail Gorbachev'...
Sealift will play a key role in any significant U.S. military contingency, regardless of the specifics of the scenario. U.S. sealift capabilities are now in a state of dangerous disrepair; it is clear that transport fleet modernization is a must. It ...
A brief review of developments in Chinese military policy since the fall of 1976.
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