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Amid Russia's continuing intervention in Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and member-state policymakers must devise a comprehensive strategy to seek peace and stability in Europe and find a cohesive way forward. This perspective assesses two strategies toward Russia: (1) punishment and disengagement and (2) resilience and engagement and makes a case for the latter.
Testimony presented before the House Homeland Security Committee on March 24, 2015.
Statement for the record submitted before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on March 17, 2015.
Testimony presented before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security on March 17, 2015.
This report seeks to help those planning future cyber training by highlighting what can be learned from another specialty: defense language. It examines what the military services and national security agencies have done to meet the need for personnel with skills in critical languages and identifies preliminary lessons for government efforts to develop efficient and effective training approaches for cyber warriors.
This report explores the relationship between the current scoring of data for applicants to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and two subsequent outcomes: probability of graduating and probability of officer promotion. Using a series of logistic regression models and a boosted logistic regression, the results suggest that that the current candidate scoring system as the primary basis for admission decisions at West Point is effective.
Testimony presented before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on March 12, 2015.
RAND's exploratory analysis of China's development and use of unmanned systems focuses on identifying sources related to maritime unmanned systems; understanding the roles that China sees for such systems; analyzing trends in Chinese development of unmanned vehicles; exploring how China could employ such systems in its territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas; and identifying areas for further research and potential developments.
In recent years, the rising rate of suicides by military personnel has generated concern among policymakers, military leaders, and the public at large. Based on a recommendation from an earlier RAND report on preventing suicide among military personnel, this report reviews the literature on gatekeeper models of suicide prevention to better understand what is known about the effectiveness of gatekeepers and gatekeeper training.
Testimony presented before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies on March 4, 2015.
The 1992 to 1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been highly influential as an analogy for understanding intervention in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, and most recently in Syria.
Department of Defense assistance to partner nations often entails supporting their helicopter fleets, but the U.S. military often lacks a large base of expertise to support these aircraft because they are not part of the standard U.S. inventory. RAND researchers quantified the cost-effectiveness implications of migrating partner nation fleets to alternative aircraft.
While the United States has been occupied with recent military operations, other potential adversaries have been advancing their own military capabilities in ways that are of concern. A debate over the appropriate set of responses — strategic, operational, and technical — has begun. This perspective is intended to contribute to this debate by examining a potentially effective and feasible overall military approach to the challenge — direct defense.
A variety of programs provide educational assistance to military service members, ranging from examinations that provide college credit for knowledge and experience gained in the military to various kinds of tuition assistance and student aid. RAND reviewed major federal-level educational assistance programs to provide an overall view of the system and suggest ways to assess it and help manage individuals' use of the programs.
Strategic communication can be made more conceptually robust and draw on a more powerful and useful suite of tools and methods by borrowing from two language-focused disciplines: rhetoric and discourse analysis.