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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

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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
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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

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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A Look Back at the War in Afghanistan, National Security Risks, Hospice Care: RAND Weekly Recap

Ohio's Train Derailment—Not Spy Balloons—Is the Real National Security Threat

No Data? Big Problem.

Tighten Up Mass-Transit Security

Trains, Buses and Terror

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