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Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals 2009
Comparing Alternative U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies: Can Assumption-Based Planning Help Elevate the Debate? 2008
Perennial Cornucopia: Planning the Next Agricultural Revolution 2007
Perennial Polyculture Farming: Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution? 2007
Assumption-Based Planning: A Tool for Reducing Avoidable Surprises 2002
Improving the Quality of DoD's Civilian Workforce: Guidance for the Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development 2002
Strategic and Performance Planning for the Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development in the Department of Defense 2001
Achieving the Texas Higher Education Vision 2000
Changing the Policy Toward Homosexuals in the U.S. Military 2000
Expandability of the 21st Century Army 2000
The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences Proceedings of an International Conference 2000
The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Technological Trends: Proceedings of an International Conference 2000
Building a New Vision for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Options for Key Policy Decisions 1998
Future Leader Development of Army Noncommissioned Officers: Workshop Results 1998
Futures Intelligence: Assessing Intelligence Support to Three Army Long-Range Planning Communities 1998
The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead 1998
Assumption-Based Planning and Force XXI 1997
Credible Uses of the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) System 1996
Assumption-Based Planning: A Planning Tool for Very Uncertain Times 1993
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment 1993
Assumption-Based Planning for Army 21 1992
Is It You or Your Model Talking? A Framework for Model Validation 1992
Non-Monotonicity, Chaos and Combat Models 1991
Toward an assessment of technology gaming 1989
A metaphor for thinking about changes in Army doctrine 1988
Surveying Relevant Emerging Technologies for the Army of the Future: Lessons from Forecast II 1988
CODA User's Manual 1985
CODA: A Concept Organization and Development Aid for the Research Environment 1984
The RAND Winter Study on Nonnuclear Strategic Weapons: Executive Summary 1984
Scenario Agent: A Rule-Based Model of Political Behavior For Use in Strategic Analysis 1982

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