Blog posts from 2003

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Swarming -- The Next Face of Battle

Sep 29, 2003

Aviation Week & Space Technology

Technological advances often give rise to new types of weapons, but the achievement of lasting breakthroughs in fighting power requires organizational and doctrinal innovation as we.

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Behind the Rhetoric

Charles Wolf, Jr.

Sep 26, 2003

South China Morning Post

A chronological list of commentaries authored by RAND staff and published in newspapers and magazines worldwide.

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Buying Cheap Chips From China

Caroline S. Wagner

Sep 24, 2003

Asian Wall Street Journal

IBM's recent announcement of layoffs at its U.S. semiconductor plant sounds strangely familiar, bringing back memories of when I started my career as a U.S. government policy analyst in the early 1980s. At that time, I found myself in the midst of a great swirl of concern about the technological ascendancy of Japan.

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The Perfect Army for Iraq: NATO

Robert E. Hunter

Sep 13, 2003

New York Times

To get needed help in Iraq, including major financial support from European Union countries, returning to the last half-century's commitment to working with others seems the obvious choice. NATO is the answer, and the sooner the better.

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Talking to Your Child About Kobe

Mark A. Schuster

Sep 8, 2003

Los Angeles Times

Published commentary by RAND staff.

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A Limited Success

Nina Hachigian

Sep 3, 2003

South China Morning Post

All in all, the talks on North Korea's nuclear programme that ended in Beijing last week went as well as could be expected. There were no breakthroughs, but neither did the talks end ruinously.

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The Real Worry

Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon

Aug 25, 2003

Time Magazine

Among the four so-called "economic miracles" of the past half century—Germany after the second world war, Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea in the 1970s through to the mid-1990s, and China between 1980 and the present day—that of China has been the most remarkable.

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US: Stick to Diplomacy with North Korea, Even If Talks Fail

Nina Hachigian

Aug 7, 2003

The Christian Science Monitor

Responding to China's overtures, North Korea has just agreed to a new round of multilateral talks on its claimed nuclear-weapons program. It is the nature of the North Korean regime itself, though, not the weapons program, that is the underlying cause of tension on the Korean peninsula.

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Fault Lines: Eight Threats to China's Economic Miracle

Charles Wolf, Jr.

Aug 7, 2003

South China Morning Post

Among the four so-called "economic miracles" of the past half century—Germany after the second world war, Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea in the 1970s through to the mid-1990s, and China between 1980 and the present day—that of China has been the most remarkable.

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A Fresh Start Against Terror

Bruce Berkowitz

Aug 4, 2003

New York Times

commentaries by RAND Staff: insightful commentaries on current events, published in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide.

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A Thaw Between Giants

Rollie Lal

Aug 3, 2003

The Baltimore Sun

commentaries by RAND Staff: insightful commentaries on current events, published in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide.

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Atlantic Monthly and RAND View the Future

James A. Thomson @thomson0145

Aug 1, 2003

Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly Magazine features a compilation of ten short essays written by experts at RAND, collectively titled Headlines Over the Horizon. The RAND authors examined developments in international and military affairs drawing little attention today that are expected to be major issues in the next three to five years.

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Hi-tech Hits Asian Politics

Nina Hachigian, Lily Wu

Jul 31, 2003

South China Morning Post

What have we learned over the course of the boom-bust cycle? That the fates of the information technology (IT) industry and Asian governments are closely intertwined.

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