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Logistics Management

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Will Logistics Be Russia's Undoing in Ukraine?
Russia's experience in Ukraine one year in is an example of what happens when a nation tries to fight a war without fully considering the logistics and sustainment that go alongside such a fight. The consequences for failing to fully consider these concepts drove Russia into a prolonged conflict for which it was already ill-prepared a year ago, with increasingly dire consequences for its future.
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Feb 10, 2023
The Hill
Bradley Martin

Environmental Regulation

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Achieving Decarbonization and Energy Equity Through Reconciliation
The past two years have witnessed increasingly vocal calls for rapid decarbonization of the global economy through a clean energy transition. How can Congress ensure that new costs associated with a clean energy transition do not fall disproportionately on lower-income ratepayers?
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Sep 9, 2021
United Press International
Liam Regan, Benjamin Lee Preston @bl_preston
Energy Security

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Thinking Outside the Grid: Q&A with Anu Narayanan
Anu Narayanan, an engineer at RAND, is a specialist in what-ifs. Her research focuses on critical infrastructure and national security. In this interview, she discusses her latest work that explores what would happen if a cyberattacker tried to take down the power grid.
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Mar 5, 2020
Public Utilities

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Getting (Solar) Electricity Pricing Right
Demand for rooftop solar panels is soaring among U.S. homeowners. Meanwhile, states are struggling to adapt a 20th-century electrical grid—and the corresponding cost structure for electricity rates—to this 21st-century reality. This is causing confusion and uncertainty.
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Jul 24, 2017
The Energy Collective
Nicholas E. Burger, Aimee E. Curtright @ACurtright, et al.
Energy Distribution

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Investing in Infrastructure? Don't Forget the Electric Grid
Leaving the future of America's electricity grid to chance should not be an option. To maximize the potential benefits of a multibillion-dollar smart grid investment, a closer examination of technology and policy is needed.
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Dec 7, 2016
Inside Sources
Aimee E. Curtright @ACurtright, Kathleen Loa
Energy Consumption

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Power to the People: How Smart Grids Can Change the Way We Live
A modernized, 'smart' grid could change how much you pay for electricity, where it comes from, and how likely you are to lose it in a summer storm. But has the reality of the smart grid kept pace with the promise?
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Apr 27, 2015
Environmental and Natural Resource Management

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Earth Day and RAND
As people around the world prepare for the 42nd annual Earth Day this Sunday, we look back at some of the recent research from RAND's Environment, Energy, and Economic Development program.
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Apr 20, 2012
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Q and A: Alternative Fuels for Military Applications
Questions and answers regarding the RAND report: Alternative Fuels for Military Applications
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Jan 25, 2011
The RAND Blog

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BBC World Service's efforts [to begin broadcasting a Gaza emergency service]…should motivate the U.S. Agency for Global Media…to initiate its own radio transmissions to Gaza. Doing so would not only provide Gaza's 2 million residents with valuable news and information but potentially help to begin rebuilding regional trust in the United States' voice in finding a durable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Benjamin J. Sacks

Policy Researcher

Source: Inside Sources

Deterring North Korean coercion involves some combination of threatening to impose costs on the North and to deny North Korea the benefits it seeks with employment of nuclear weapons.

Bruce W. Bennett

Adjunct International/Defense Researcher

Source: Korea On Point

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

BBC's Gaza Service Demonstrates Power of Radio During Conflict

From the Ashes of Hamas-Israel War, Can Economics Drive Peace?

The Safety and Security of the U.S. Maritime Environment

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Energy Distribution

Will Logistics Be Russia's Undoing in Ukraine?

Achieving Decarbonization and Energy Equity Through Reconciliation

Thinking Outside the Grid: Q&A with Anu Narayanan

Getting (Solar) Electricity Pricing Right

Investing in Infrastructure? Don't Forget the Electric Grid

Power to the People: How Smart Grids Can Change the Way We Live

Earth Day and RAND

Q and A: Alternative Fuels for Military Applications

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