As part of peacekeeping efforts, stability operations—post-conflict military efforts to bring peace and security to a region or country—represent an ongoing challenge for both military planners and civilian policymakers. RAND research has provided effective strategic recommendations in many such operations, helping those involved in unified stabilization, peacekeeping and security, transition, and reconstruction.
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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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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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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 volume presents case studies of U.S. and Russian peacekeeping and peacemaking operations since the end of the Cold War.
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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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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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Addresses the challenges of peacekeeping and peacemaking after the Cold War, looking first at recent efforts to keep the peace and then suggesting a multifaceted approach for the future.
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In this issue paper, the author examines how--prior to Yugoslavia and in other, future cases--the United States might deter the behavior that has produced such atrocities or compel its cessation once begun.
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A description of the political and economic motivating forces in Vietnam, the strategic hamlet program, the government organization, and the U.S. advisory efforts.
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A questioning of some basic concepts that guided U.S. national security policy toward the Third World in the past, and discussion of conceptual alternatives for assistance planning under the Nixon Doctrine.
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The author sums up the results of earlier research on the defection of VC/NVA personnel and describes the organization and operation of the Chieu Hoi Program, which became one of the most cost-effective programs in the pacification effort.
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A greater role in central government for Vietnamese sociopolitical groups is urged as a means of creating a balanced coalition of military and civilian leaders in the South.
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The 1967-1970 Vietnam pacification program is described in terms of management, style, size, and program emphasis.
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An analysis of the Viet Cong system in Dinh Tuong Province and its reaction to the 1966 GVN pacification program.
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An exploration of the problems of international war and peace.
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A statistical analysis of the relationship between land distribution and insurgency in South Vietnam.
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An historical survey of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and an examination of U.S. policy alternatives in the context of the traditional American ideal of freedom.
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A survey of political and economic developments in Laos during 1967.
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An examination of the problems of village pacification in South Vietnam, focusing on those events in the village of Duc Lap that contributed to the deterioration of GVN control of the village.
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