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Campaigns to inform, influence, and persuade a range of foreign audiences are critical to achieving key U.S. national security objectives, but it can be challenging to assess the progress, performance, and effectiveness of these efforts in a real-world context. This report offers guidance, robust and flexible frameworks, and recommendations to support and enhance assessment design and planning.
An examination of requirements, principles from military theory, current doctrine, and commercial gaming practices points to solutions and changes to game mechanics to better incorporate the information environment into wargame planning, development, and play. Recommendations target wargame sponsors, wargame designers, and those who are responsible for procuring new tools and recruiting personnel to support wargaming.
The international community's approach to building state institutions needs its own reform. This innovative book proposes a new strategy, rooted in a rigorous analysis of recent missions. Pursuing incremental change that accommodates local political interests is more likely to produce effective, accountable, and law-abiding institutions.
This brief outlines the issues facing different South Asian countries with respect to their relationships with China.
Battlefield medical advances, improvements in protective equipment, and progress in surgical reconstruction and rehabilitation have led to questions about when to emphasize limb salvage over other treatment options — such as amputation — for individuals with severe blast-related limb injuries. These conference proceedings summarize findings, conclusions, and recommendations of an expert-led meeting held in March 2019 that addressed such questions.
In this report—the first in a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers introduce a new tool to visualize how COVID-19 infections and commercial air travel have interacted to export infection risk across the world.
In this report—part of a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers quantify the potential vectors of COVID-19 transmission to Gulf Cooperation Council countries as a result of commercial air travel.
In this report—part of a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers quantify potential vectors of COVID-19 transmission to the United States resulting from commercial air travel.
In this report—part of a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers estimate the daily rate of COVID-19 transmission via air travel from China.
In this report—part of a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers estimate the likely number of infections in China in early 2020.
Public and private organizations are increasingly aware of the potential value of data and analytics to improving organizational performance and outcomes. This report examines how the private sector addresses data governance and analytics to inform how the Department of Defense can develop and apply advanced analytics to acquisition challenges.
While all U.S. military services have strived to achieve greater total force integration and a stronger total force culture, impediments limit the achievement of these objectives. This research identifies policies and practices that contribute to improved integration and a stronger total force culture, focusing on innovative approaches that could impart cross-component knowledge and provide rewards for service members to work across components.
The authors argue that there are limitations to relying on empirical data to guide acquisition policy. This report summarizes the case for a broader evidence base for defense acquisition policymaking and then focuses on one specific tool that the authors suggest might add analytic value: policy gaming. It also describes a prototype game focused on Middle-Tier Acquisition that researchers developed to enrich the available evidence base.
Assessing options for military withdrawal in Iraq in 2020, the authors conclude that supporting a stable and friendly Iraq is in the continuing long-term interest of the United States—and that this does not require continuing the combat assistance mission in Iraq over the long run, but does require maintaining a small force of military advisers to help train and develop Iraqi military capabilities so that Iraq can defend itself.
Twenty facilities that imagery analysis, press and professional journals suggest house Uighur children have been identified in this first study of geolocating China's detention infrastructure targeting Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.