Civil-Military Relations

Report

Army Forces for Homeland Security

What role can the Army play in protecting the United States from terrorist attacks?

Commentary

A Dangerous Peace

Kabul has slipped into a nervous tension. Early last week President Hamid Karzai surprised his fellow Afghans and foreign diplomats by choosing to drop Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim from his presidential ticket in favor of Ahmed Zia Masood, the brother of the late Ahmed Shah Masood, a well-respected ...

News Release

RAND Study Describes How West Can Counter Radical Islam

The United States and its allies can best counter the destabilizing forces of radical Islam by gaining a better understanding of the broad range of views among Muslims that make some potential allies and others determined adversaries.

Report

Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies

Islam's own internal struggles make it difficult for outsiders to understand the actors and the issues. The United States and its allies could best counter the destabilizing forces of radical Islam by gaining an understanding of the broad range of views among Muslims that make some potential allies and others determined adversaries.

Report

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change

Surveys several Middle East security issues and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.

Journal Article

Agents of Influence: Assessing the Role of Chinese Foreign Policy Research Organizations After the 16th Party Congress

Journal Article

The U.S. Military Intervention Decision-Making Process: Who Participates, and How?

This article seeks to explain both who participates in military intervention decisions and how they participate.

Journal Article

Hu Jintao as China's Emerging National Security Leader

This chapter assesses Hu Jintao's emergence as a "national security leader."

Commentary

Stop Snubbing Indonesia's Military

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Journal Article

Civil-military Relations in the Czech and Slovak Republics

The Czech case represents a situation in which the military retains only a minor role in domestic politics.

Dissertation

Civil-Military Relations: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan

This report sheds new light on the prospects for the French fighter industry.

Report

Reserve Component Linguists in Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations

This documented briefing reports on the final results of a study on the availability of linguists in the Army's Reserve Components. The author finds that shifting language requirements appear to be the primary cause of linguist shortages.

Report

Casualties and Consensus: The Historical Role of Casualties in Domestic Support for U.S. Military Operations

Most Americans do not want lives to be sacrificed for any but the most compelling and promising causes, and they rely on their leaders to illuminate just how compelling and promising these causes are.

Report

Transporting the Army for Operation Restore Hope

In Operation Restore Hope (ORH), the Army successfully provided many of the capabilities needed to get food to starving Somalis. This report analyzes Army ORH deployment and makes five observations on how to improve future humanitarian operations.

Report

Report of a Workshop on Expanding U.S. Air Force Non-Combat Mission Capabilities

Report of a Workshop on Expanding U.S. Air Force Non-Combat Mission Capabilities

Report

Party-military relations in Romania

An analysis of civil-military relations in Romania. Because of the subordination of the Eastern European countries to the Soviet Union, their military establishments have been denied their national defense prerogatives and relegated to a secondary r...

Report

Soldiers, Guerrillas, and Politics in Colombia

Analysis of the impact of prolonged guerrilla warfare on the Colombian military.

People

Raphael S. Cohen

People

Stephen Dalzell

People

Michael H. Decker