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Definitions for some important and frequently used terms in discussions of national security issues. The objective is to provide a broad basis of agreement on fundamental concepts used in debating policy....
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A 1961 attempt to determine how much of possible increases in annual U.S. defense and foreign aid expenditures could be supported by fuller use of existing capacity, rather than by decrease in consumption expenditures. The author concludes that, if t...
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Part of a broader investigation concerned with developing practical antineutrino detectors for use against nuclear submarines and rockets, communication by means of neutrino radiation, and a system for monitoring nuclear weapons.
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Study demonstrated that military homicides and suicides tended to conform to certain patterns resembling in many respects those of civilian groups.
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This paper reports on a novel technique for literature indexing and searching in a mechanized library system.
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A defense of overseas bases in response to a 1959 article in Air Force by Major General Dale O. Smith.
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A description of a Monte Carlo model used in evaluating the capability of both actual and possible transport systems to meet the airlift demands of the United States military establishment.
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The use of some exhibits, relating to a strategic procurement game, to explain various concepts and techniques of operational gaming. In particular, the paper discusses the relative merits (1) of play by human players vs. machine play and ...
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An analysis, as a two-sided war game, of the problem of allocating two types of aircraft (bombers and fighters) among three different air tasks (counter air, air defense, and support of ground operations) in a multistrike campaign.
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A 1960 attempt to determine when China might obtain an independent atomic bomb capability. The discussion is based on the fact that the research reactor purchased by the People's Republic of China from the Soviet Union became operative in mid-1958 a...
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An analysis of a complex data-processing decisionmaking system to determine how it responds in meeting its charged responsibilities.
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An investigation of the structure of the optimal policy toward serviceable and reparable stocks of a spare part to be followed by a supplier. It is assumed that the supplier is confronted periodically with a random number of orders for serviceable pa...
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A consideration of the problem of making design decisions for time-limited checkouts of ballistic missiles. The paper develops (1) a quantitative criteria for the value of including individual checks in the checkout, (2) an expression for the require...
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Data collected during a squadron operational test designed to measure the interceptor team effectiveness in accomplishing the air defense mission. This paper attempts to determine the impact of maintenance or reliability on operational capabilities. ...
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A restatement of military and commercial requirements in terms of the characteristics of the demands for airlift. Where conflict appears in the requirements, the differences are translated into the characteristics of logistics systems to ascertain i...
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An example of the application of operations research to missile ground system design. The paper discusses the roles of operations research in equipment design and the general readiness-testing design problem. For this problem, analyses are needed to ...
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An attempt to estimate the effect of three launch variables (namely, velocity, path angle, and altitude) on the performance of air-launched ballistic missiles.
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An account of a trip taken by two RAND computer specialists as part of an eight-man technical delegation representing the United States National Joint Computer Committee and its member societies.
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Examines the development histories of seven aircraft (F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, F-105, F-106, F-107).
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An analysis of the military actions in Laos in the summer and fall of 1959 and of their political-military background. The events are treated as a special case of limited war. Contrary to normal expectations, the initiative was on the side of the Fre...
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