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Arming Teachers, F-16s for Ukraine, Commercial Spaceflight: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how teachers feel about arming teachers, what F-16s will (and won't) do for Ukraine, the need to regulate commercial spaceflight, and more.
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Jun 2, 2023

Russia

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The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting
Analysis, informed by interactions with Russians, offers Western leaders a window into Russia. Blacklists hinder this process. With the stakes so high, much depends on experts' success in getting their analysis right.
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Dec 15, 2022
Foreign Policy
Alyssa Demus
Information Operations

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Artificial Intelligence and the Manufacturing of Reality
Humans carry flaws in deciding what is or is not real. The internet and other technologies have made it easier to weaponize and exploit these flaws. And artificial intelligence will likely be used to exploit these weaknesses at an unprecedented scale, speed, and level of effectiveness.
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Jan 20, 2020
Strategy Bridge
Christopher Paul, Marek N. Posard @mnposard
Information Operations

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Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance
The United States' principal adversaries are fighting and gaining ground by employing a host of tactics short of all-out war. This form of warfare, once called political warfare, is back with a vengeance, empowered by new tools and techniques.
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Apr 13, 2018
The National Interest
Raphael S. Cohen, Linda Robinson
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
The Jerusalem Post
Colin P. Clarke
Information Operations

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Psychological Operations by Another Name Are Sweeter
The Department of Defense has decided to change the name of military psychological operations (PSYOP) and this is a good thing, writes Christopher Paul.
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Jul 29, 2010
Small Wars Journal
Christopher Paul
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Lessons for Intelligence in the Campaign Against al Qaeda
Published commentary by RAND staff: Lessons for Intelligence in the Campaign Against al Qaeda, in Vanguard magazine.
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Mar 2, 2006
Vanguard
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins
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Strategy: Political Warfare Neglected
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Jun 26, 2005
San Diego Union-Tribune
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins
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Missed Opportunities
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Sep 5, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Gregory F. Treverton
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Countering al-Qaeda: The Next Phase in the War
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Sep 8, 2002
San Diego Union Tribune
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins

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The Biden administration's lack of a competitive economic strategy, not just in Oceania but throughout the Indo-Pacific, is providing China with unique opportunities to leverage its Belt and Road Initiative to deepen trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Chinese economic overtures tend to be successful, given that Pacific Island countries are overwhelmingly small and impoverished.

Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst

Source: Foreign Policy

While neurodivergent diagnoses are not automatically disqualifying from Army service, any new recruit who reveals a diagnosis jumps through hoops to serve. Some described having to prove that their diagnoses do not impede their ability to serve, which puts the burden on an eighteen-year-old to prove a negative for which the Army has no assessment criteria.

Cortney Weinbaum

Senior Management Scientist

Source: Modern War Institute (West Point)

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Arming Teachers, F-16s for Ukraine, Commercial Spaceflight: RAND Weekly Recap

The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting

Artificial Intelligence and the Manufacturing of Reality

Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance

How Hezbollah Came to Dominate Information Warfare

Psychological Operations by Another Name Are Sweeter

Lessons for Intelligence in the Campaign Against al Qaeda

Strategy: Political Warfare Neglected

Missed Opportunities

Countering al-Qaeda: The Next Phase in the War

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