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Appointment scrolls are required for officers to enter the services and to take on service in a different grade, military service, or component. Researchers examine processes used to meet scrolling requirements, identify gaps and redundancies that create administrative burdens and delays, and provide recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the scroll creation process.
North Korea has been building up its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs in an effort to dominate the Korean Peninsula and become a regional great power. Its weapons pose an existential threat to the Republic of Korea (ROK), and they might soon pose a serious threat to the United States. In this Perspective, the authors argue that the ROK and the United States must establish a firm deterrent against North Korean nuclear weapon use.
The authors examined provision of career and technical education (CTE) opportunities for participants in the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program. ChalleNGe is a residential, quasi-military program for youth ages 16–18 who are experiencing difficulty in traditional high school. The authors reviewed the literature to delineate promising practices, analyzed data on CTE offerings and participation, and interviewed staff at five ChalleNGe sites.
The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is a residential, quasi-military program for youth ages 16 to 18 who are experiencing academic or behavioral difficulties in traditional high school. To better understand how ChalleNGe can support cadets with mental health disorders, RAND researchers conducted interviews with counselors and surveyed ChalleNGe sites about their counseling services and cadets’ mental health needs in 2019.
Service members who are geographically remote from a military treatment facility may face unique challenges accessing high-quality behavioral health care. RAND research identified three key priority areas for the U.S. Department of Defense.
The authors evaluated access and quality of care provided to more than 93,000 service members with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, or substance use disorder who reside remotely from a military treatment facility and compared their care with that received by non-remote service members. The assessment identified strengths in and areas for improvement for the Military Health System.
In its ongoing U.S.-Japan Alliance conference series, RAND hosted two virtual events in February 2021 to tackle important topics facing the United States and Japan.
Researchers created a prototype tool that uses data from the Full Cost of Manpower (FCoM) model, which includes various cost factors. The prototype tool expands on FCoM by creating a method to streamline cost estimations for large Department of Defense organizations, providing summary output in the form of graphs and tables, and allowing the user to run various scenarios in which billet counts are changed and the effect on cost can be observed.
The authors document the history of the Third Offset, a U.S. strategy that focused on the potential of technology to offset Chinese and Russian military advances and that shaped the 2018 National Defense Strategy. The authors describe efforts to effect change within the U.S. Department of Defense and interview key defense leaders who did so, providing an example of how to bring about organizational change in large military institutions.
This report, the fourth in a series on election threats, describes research from focus groups and individual interviews on responses to memes sourced in Russia that were designed to breed dissension and to a public service announcement warning about such online manipulation. It then outlines a strategy to counter such interference that involves coordinating with social media companies and releasing simple PSAs for use during election cycles.
This research documents the characteristics of sexual assault incidents, victims, and perpetrators that increase risk for perceived retaliation against service women who are victims of sexual assault. The authors also explored the relationship between disclosure choices and retaliation and subsequently controlled for disclosure choices when identifying risk factors for retaliation.
Over the past several years, the U.S.-Japan alliance has faced a rapidly shifting set of circumstances on the Korean Peninsula, with deteriorating Japan–South Korea ties and an accelerating threat from North Korea, even as the Kim Jong Un regime has engaged in first-ever direct negotiations with the United States. These conference proceedings explore how changes on the Korean Peninsula are seen by observers in Japan and the United States.
The authors assess the financial viability and current structure of the Transportation Working Capital Fund, which funds most U.S. Transportation Command operations, including providing peacetime transport for U.S. Department of Defense customers and maintaining surge capacity required during wartime. The authors also make recommendations, tailored to USTRANSCOM lines of business, to improve the fund's effectiveness and efficiency.
RAND researchers used Twitter advertisements to solicit survey participation from the most-influential members of the pro-Ukraine activist community, influential members of the pro-Russia community, and a general population of Russian-language Twitter users from Ukraine. The goal was to draw on key influencers in the pro-Ukraine activist community to help counter Russian propaganda in the region.
The Abraham Accords, a major political breakthrough between Israel and the Muslim nations of the world, could also have wide-reaching economic impacts. Deeper economic integration could create 150,000 new jobs among Israel's current partners in the accords, and these benefits could grow to 4 million new jobs (and $1 trillion in new economic activity) over a decade, if the accords grow to include 11 nations, which some have speculated is possible.