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The Strategy of China's Bomber Flights
Since March 2015, China's PLAAF has conducted a series of long-range bomber flights in the Asia-Pacific region, including over the South China Sea, near Japan, and around Taiwan. What's driving these flights? And what are the implications for U.S. interests in the region?

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Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, or CBITS, helps students who have experienced significant trauma. The program focuses on decreasing symptoms related to trauma exposure, managing stress and anxiety, and building peer and caregiver support.
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Could America Use Its Leverage to Alter the Saudis' Behavior?

As the Saudis' chief political and military partner and the undisputed security guarantor in the Middle East, the United States has considerable influence it can wield over Saudi decisionmaking. The Trump administration could consider using its influence to encourage Saudi leadership to moderate its assertive and damaging policies abroad.
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Evaluating Los Angeles County's Mental Health Community Engagement Campaign

The WeRise/WhyWeRise campaign targeted young people to encourage them to engage with mental health issues and create a movement to lower barriers to mental health access. People exposed to the campaign reported more-supportive attitudes toward people with mental illness and greater mobilization toward action around mental health issues.
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Strategies to Counter Russian Social Media Influence

The Russian government's disinformation campaigns have found a comfortable home on social media. No single approach to countering their influence is likely to produce a conclusive victory over the threat. Therefore, it would be prudent to adopt approaches that target multiple links in the disinformation chain.

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Doing community service activities connecting employees to the neighborhoods and communities around them is not only a benefit to the community, hopefully, but also can create a sense of community amongst those employees in doing good, pro-social, pro-active things. And that can be restorative for one's physical and emotional health and well-being.
Anita Chandra

Vice President and Director, RAND Social and Economic Well-Being
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We invite experts on gun policy and gun violence prevention to submit suggestions on which topics or research areas the [National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research] should focus on. We want the research funded by the collaborative to have the greatest chance of guiding the public and policymakers to fair and effective gun policies.
Andrew R. Morral

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Neither border walls nor firewalls can protect a divided society that dismisses fact and submits to the tyranny of fear.
Brian Michael Jenkins

Senior Adviser to the RAND President
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The WhyWeRise campaign was intended to elevate mental health as a civil rights issue and leverage youth enthusiasm for activism as a way to create social change. Our findings show that they reached an impressive proportion of the target audience and seem to have influenced people's attitudes toward mental health.
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Senior Behavioral Scientist
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The Strategy of China's Bomber Flights

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools

Could America Use Its Leverage to Alter the Saudis' Behavior?

Evaluating Los Angeles County's Mental Health Community Engagement Campaign

Strategies to Counter Russian Social Media Influence

How Private Health Care Providers Could Better Serve Veterans

Alternative Paths to Korean Unification

Women's Representation in the U.S. Department of Defense Workforce

How AV Safety Can Be Defined, Tested, and Measured

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The Vital Support of Post-9/11 Military Caregivers

Why So Many Military Women Think About Suicide

Healing the Invisible Wounds of War with Virtual Reality

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