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Afghanistan

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A Look Back at the War in Afghanistan, National Security Risks, Hospice Care: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on why the United States “stayed the unfavorable course” in Afghanistan, the Ohio train derailment, state data on gun deaths, and more.
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Mar 3, 2023

Critical Infrastructure Protection

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Ohio's Train Derailment—Not Spy Balloons—Is the Real National Security Threat
The slow degradation of infrastructure and disaster response is less a spectacle than an overflying balloon, but the train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio highlights just how bizarre such a focus on perceived external national security threats has become. The far greater threat may be from within.
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Feb 20, 2023
Los Angeles Times
Bradley Martin, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg
Transportation Economics

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No Data? Big Problem.
Good data can inform decision makers about what really works—how best to relieve congestion and improve supply-chain connectivity to make freight transportation—and hence the U.S. economy—more competitive, write Mortimer Downey, Joseph Schofer, and Johanna Zmud.
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Mar 20, 2012
DC.STREETSBLOG.org
Mortimer Downey, Joseph Schofer, et al.
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Tighten Up Mass-Transit Security
Published commentary by RAND staff: Tighten Up Mass-Transit Security, in Newsday.
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Aug 22, 2006
Newsday
Peter Chalk
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Trains, Buses and Terror
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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May 3, 2004
The Mercury News
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins