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Trends in Russia's Armed Forces: An Overview of Budgets and Capabilities

2019
Rethinking Coordination of Services to Refugees in Urban Areas: Managing the Crisis in Jordan and Lebanon

2016
Security Sector Reform in Ukraine

2016
NATO Needs a Comprehensive Strategy for Russia

2015
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Decisive War, Elusive Peace

2015
Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan

2015
Russian Foreign Policy in Historical and Current Context: A Reassessment

2015
Initial Thoughts on the Impact of the Iraq War on U.S. National Security Structures

2014
Security Force Development in Afghanistan: Learning from Iraq

2012
Building Afghanistan's Security Forces in Wartime: The Soviet Experience

2011
Economic Assistance During Stability and Support Operations

2011
Nuclear Deterrence in Europe: Russian Approaches to a New Environment and Implications for the United States

2011
Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: Identifying Lessons for Future Efforts

2011
The Impact of U.S. Military Drawdown in Iraq on Displaced and Other Vulnerable Populations: Analysis and Recommendations

2010
The Capabilities That Medium-Armored Forces Bring to the Full Spectrum of Operations

2009
Guidebook for Supporting Economic Development in Stability Operations

2009
Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations

2009
Russian Foreign Policy: Sources and Implications

2009
After Saddam: Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq

2008
In the Middle of the Fight: An Assessment of Medium-Armored Forces in Past Military Operations

2008
Soft Power, Hard Power, and Counterinsurgency: The Early Soviet Experience in Central Asia and Its Implications

2008
Women and Nation-Building

2008
Iraqi Security Forces: Defining Challenges and Assessing Progress

2007
Making Liberia Safe: Transformation of the National Security Sector

2007
Two Years After Andijan: Assessing the Past and Thinking Towards the Future

2007
The United States Should Reassess Priorities and Consider Next Steps in Iraq

2007
U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment

2007
Women and Human Security: The Case of Post Conflict Afghanistan

2007
RAND Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2006

2006
Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes

2006
Developing Iraq’s Security Sector: The Coalition Provisional Authority’s Experience

2005
National Security Decision-Making Structures and Security Sector Reform

2005
Rebuilding Security Forces and Institutions in Iraq

2005
Three Years After: Next Steps in the War on Terror

2005
U.S. Interests in Central Asia: Policy Priorities and Military Roles

2005
U.S. Military Has Important but Limited Long-Term Role in Central Asia

2005
Aid During Conflict: Interaction Between Military and Civilian Assistance Providers in Afghanistan, September 2001-June 2002

2004
Carnegie-RAND Workshop on the Future of the Greater Middle East and the Prospects for U.S.-Russian Partnership

2004
Clean, Lean and Able: A Strategy for Defense Development

2004
Defense Development: A New Approach to Reforming Defense Sectors in the Developing World

2004
Faultlines of Conflict in Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Implications for the U.S. Army

2003
Too Few Good Men: The Security Implications of Russian Demographics

2003
Assessing Russia's Decline: Trends and Implications for the United States and the U.S. Air Force

2002
A Global Access Strategy for the U.S. Air Force

2002
NATO and Russia: Bridge-Building for the 21st Century Report of the Working Group on NATO-Russia Relations

2002
Improving Army Planning for Future Multinational Coalition Operations

2001
Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat

2001
Global Access: Strategy 2000

2000
Ukraine and the Caspian: An Opportunity for the United States

2000

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