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Describes a simple, maintenance-free, and highly versatile source of illumination based on the familiar principle of the glowing watch dial.
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Tables and computation methods for evaluating the load that can be carried by porters under various conditions. The logistic importance of porterage has been a disputed issue in American military planning.
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A scheme for using directed, high-intensity light flashes to reduce the efficiency of Viet Cong night attacks.
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A description of two analytical aids that have been developed for users of the RAND interviews with former Viet Cong.
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An analysis of the effects on the Air Force Logistics Command civilian work force of the decision of the Department of Defense in November 1964 to close the Air Materiel Area (AMA) depots at Middletown (Pa.), Mobile (Ala.), and San Bernardino (Calif....
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Description of the RAND Rotation Base Model for estimating Air Force manpower needs caused by rotation.
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The use of linear programming algorithms for solving Air Force stockage problems such as the following: design of a mobility kit of reparables; single multi-weapon base stockage of reparables, recoverables and war reserve supplements, and EOQ items...
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An extension and generalization of the technique of RM-5198, in which the Pareto probability density distribution is shown to apply to the problem of detection of radar signals of unknown frequency.
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An evaluation of the impact of chemical crop destruction on the Viet Cong food supply and on the attitude of the Vietnamese peasant toward the United States and the Government of Vietnam.
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An analysis of the effectiveness of crop spraying in South Vietnam in terms of its impact on Viet Cong rice rations.
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A two-person zero-sum game is used to model the mobile defense problem in order to examine, in the context of terminal ballistic missile defense, the advantages that accrue to the defender from being able to deny the attacker knowledge of the defense deployment.
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An analysis of the motives and recruitment techniques that induce men to join the Viet Cong.
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This report is one of a series in the continuing Viet Cong motivation and morale study being carried out by the RAND Corporation.
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This paper outlines a theory of Probabilistic Information Processing and describes three experimental studies testing that theory.
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The authors respond to Comment on 'Magnetohydrodynamic-hypersonic viscous and inviscid flow near the stagnation point of a blunt body,'
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A discussion of the political and economic factors that continue to keep Western Europe militarily weak despite the spending of almost twenty billion a year on defense.
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An examination of defense planning issues important in the deployment and support of military forces in nonnuclear conflict. The major problem of choosing an appropriate combination of transport systems is discussed. The peacetime basing of combat ...
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Some of the more important methodological issues in the field of estimating acquisition costs of military aircraft are illuminated in this comparison of parametric airframe cost studies completed in 1965 by The Rand Corporation, the Planning Research Corporation, and the Center for Naval Analyses.
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A brief summary of RAND's Logistics Department, its history and its structure.
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A discussion of arms control, limited war, and peacekeeping as they relate to current Soviet disarmament policy and to Soviet general aims and behavior in international affairs. The paper includes comments on GCD (General and Complete Disarmament) a...
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