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Health Care Reform

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Do Americans Expect Too Much from Health Insurance?
Americans expect affordable coverage for pre-existing conditions, access to routine services, and protection from unpredictable and significant financial risk from accidents or illness. As a product designed primarily for risk protection, insurance may not be the most efficient or affordable approach to achieving all of these objectives.
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Sep 23, 2017
Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner, Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman
International Diplomacy

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Book Review: 'The Chessboard and the Web' by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Few quests in international relations scholarship are as imperative and vexing as that of rethinking power — how it is defined, who wields which types, and what strategies different actors pursue to accumulate it. Slaughter's new book is a significant contribution to that end.
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Sep 22, 2017
Ali Wyne
Military Doctrine

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What a 1963 Novel Tells Us About the French Army, Mission Command, and the Romance of the Indochina War
The novel La 317e Section (The 317th Platoon) informs and reflects an operating style rooted in the French Army's collective memory of the colonial wars. Colonial operations tended to be low-budget, small-footprint missions that placed junior officers in positions of considerable authority and responsibility. Service promised quick glory but was also more dangerous.
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Sep 20, 2017
Michael Shurkin
Military Health and Health Care

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The Lack of Clarity Over Medical Support for Light Footprint Operations and How It Could Be Solved
Early identification and planning for medical support for EU-led military operations are vital to saving lives, treating injuries and keeping personnel healthy. Common standards would ensure high-quality and consistent medical support regardless of which country is providing it.
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Sep 19, 2017
Susanne Sondergaard, Marta Kepe @martakepe
Information Operations

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How Hezbollah Came to Dominate Information Warfare
Hezbollah's information warfare portfolio includes newspapers, social media outlets, television programming, and a major internet presence. Its websites reflect the group's diverse agenda and aim to be multi-generational in their approach, offering information about social services as well as a video game to engage youth.
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Sep 19, 2017
Colin P. Clarke
International Diplomacy

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Europe's Hour Is Here
Since World War II, the United States and the United Kingdom have played disproportionate roles in dealing with Russia. Now continental Europe must assume more of the burden in advancing Western values and interests with an unpredictable and at times unruly Moscow.
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Sep 16, 2017
Denis Corboy, William Courtney @courtneywmh, et al.
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Exploring the Challenges Facing American Workers
A panel of experts at RAND discussed changes in the U.S. economy and findings from a survey that asked more than 3,000 Americans about issues they face in the workplace. Frequent hostility, rising inequality, slow wage growth, and changes in the demand for certain skills are some of the issues affecting workers.
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Sep 15, 2017
Cybersecurity

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Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats
Small businesses are especially vulnerable to cyber threats. What can be done to provide small businesses the security to continue to prosper, while enhancing America's cybersecurity workforce and making the economy more secure?
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Sep 15, 2017
Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson
Bibliometrics

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Funders Using Bibliometrics Should Keep It Simple
Avoiding information overload is crucial for research grant decisions. The right guidance and training to panel members can help them make the most of bibliometrics as an evaluation tool to assist their decisions on research funding.
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Sep 15, 2017
Salil Gunashekar, Susan Guthrie
Counterterrorism

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Sahel Governments Need More Security Assistance
Developments in the Sahel are cause for alarm. Despite the presence of an active French counterterrorism force and a UN peacekeeping mission, al Qaeda groups are thriving. The region would benefit from approaches that combine police and military operations with economic development and improved governance.
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Sep 14, 2017
Michael Shurkin
Military Aircraft

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Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose?
Recent bomber flights near Taiwan represent the most concerted training regimen yet aimed at improving Chinese airpower. China seeks to enhance the PLA Air Force's capabilities and signal Beijing's will to defend its territorial claims against the U.S. and its regional allies and partners, especially Taiwan and Japan.
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Sep 13, 2017
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman, et al.
Security Cooperation

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Joint Military Exercises Distract from Complex Russia-Belarus Relationship
Analysts and military leaders have concerns that Russia will use the Zapad 2017 exercise in Belarus as a smokescreen to put personnel and equipment in place, and keep it there. But the deep ties and history of cooperation between the two states make the chances of that happening unlikely.
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Sep 13, 2017
Bruce McClintock @BHMcClintock, Bilyana Lilly
Sleep

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The Early Bird Catches the Worm? Probably Not, Says Science on School Start Times
School start times are becoming a hotly debated topic across the United States. Starting middle and high schools at 8:30 a.m. would improve teen health, and the economic benefits of this shift would likely outweigh the costs.
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Sep 12, 2017
Marco Hafner, Wendy M. Troxel @wendytroxel
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Why Houstonians Didn't Buy Flood Insurance
Thousands of Houston-area homeowners will face massive, uninsured losses due to flood damage. Few homeowners buy flood insurance unless they are required to, and it's only mandatory for homes with mortgages located in FEMA-defined high-risk flood zones. People tend to ignore low-probability risks.
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Sep 12, 2017
Lloyd Dixon, Noreen Clancy
Emergency Preparedness

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Rethinking Disaster Evacuation
Before a storm hits, officials must decide whether to evacuate the public or advise them to shelter in place. Other, more targeted choices — such as sheltering in safer locations within a city — could be available if an analytic basis for making such judgments were fully developed.
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Sep 11, 2017
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein, Andrew Lauland

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Do Americans Expect Too Much from Health Insurance?

Book Review: 'The Chessboard and the Web' by Anne-Marie Slaughter

What a 1963 Novel Tells Us About the French Army, Mission Command, and the Romance of the Indochina War

The Lack of Clarity Over Medical Support for Light Footprint Operations and How It Could Be Solved

How Hezbollah Came to Dominate Information Warfare

Europe's Hour Is Here

Exploring the Challenges Facing American Workers

Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats

Funders Using Bibliometrics Should Keep It Simple

Sahel Governments Need More Security Assistance

Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose?

Joint Military Exercises Distract from Complex Russia-Belarus Relationship

The Early Bird Catches the Worm? Probably Not, Says Science on School Start Times

Why Houstonians Didn't Buy Flood Insurance

Rethinking Disaster Evacuation

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