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Reports a discussion of implications for U.S. security planning of small-scale crises and conflicts, held in October 1976 at RAND.
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The author argues that conventional thinking on deterrence is wrongheadedly preoccupied with the short-term military balance, when in fact, a nation's long-term political and economic prospects may dominate military considerations in the decision on whether or not to go to war.
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Comments on the possibility of decoupling decisions on the licensing of nuclear power plants from decisions on nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities. The author suggests that amended legislation should make it feasible to license new nuclear power pla...
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Summary of the literature over the past five years, to clarify the issues and identify the points of disagreement regarding the contribution of strategic nuclear forces to U.S. deterrence against the Soviet Union.
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The proliferation, redundancy, and diversity of Soviet surface-to-air defenses, especially in defense of the battle area, severely limit the air space in which tactical aircraft can operate effectively and survive. Further complications arise when th...
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Documents an attempt to develop an objective measure for peacetime evaluation of a fighter pilot's air-to-air combat skills.
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Discusses questions raised by the new wide availability of precision guided munitions (PGMs).
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A discussion of the Indonesian officer corps. A new generation lacking experience of guerrilla warfare against the Dutch but with more professional training will soon be in command. They absorbed the army doctrine with its populist emphasis on terr...
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Understanding the dynamics of a game involving tradeoffs between two values is the chief preoccupation of nuclear strategists.
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An overview of topics discussed with the Swedish Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Research Institute. The introduction of "smart" weapons will create far-reaching changes. Standoff precision weapons could strike the whole rear structure, making a...
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A detailed guide to the vast body of available combat and combat-related data from the recent war in Southeast Asia.
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Argues for consideration of substantially lower prompt radiation dosage requirements in U.S./NATO tactical nuclear weapon selection, based on hitherto neglected operational and political considerations and an examination of published Soviet military ...
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Testimony given before the California State Assembly Committee on Energy and Diminishing Materials regarding the possibility that terrorists might steal fissionable material or nuclear weapons, attack nuclear facilities, or create nuclear hoaxes.
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A discussion of Public Law 93-50 forbidding expenditure of U.S. funds for combat in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam after 15 August 1973, and the War Powers Resolution limiting the President's power to engage U.S. troops, and how...
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In the late 1960s, the world's revolutionaries moved from rural to urban guerrilla warfare. How have they fared in the first three years of the decade?
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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 compendium of hard lessons learned by several urban model builders, analysts, and simulators in the course of (1) developing a subemployment model for Dayton, Ohio; (2) using operations research techniques to site firehouses in East Lansing, Michig...
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An essay written in April 1972 on General Giap and the North Vietnamese 1972 gamble for a telling victory.
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How will the Vietnam war end — or not end? A clear-cut victory by either side seems unobtainable now.
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