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The RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD) addresses a wide variety of issues at the top of the national and international security policy agenda. This annual report offers a general survey of NSRD work from the spring of 2010 through the winter of 2011, including research on effective counterinsurgency practices, building a more resilient Haitian state, alternative fuels for the military, sexual orientation and the military, and local defense in Afghanistan.

This report is part of the RAND Corporation Annual report series. The Annual Report (AR) series was a product of the RAND Corporation from 1998 to 2012. Documents in this series summarized the activity and achievements in the RAND FFRDC Units. In 2013, the AR series was merged into the Corporate Publication series; annual reports from 2013 onward can now be found under Corporate Publications.

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