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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; PhD Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Report
Jan 1, 1995
This report presents a comprehensive overview of ground attacks on air bases from the first known attacks in 1940 to the most recent in 1992.
Research Brief
Shows that ground attacks on air bases have been much more frequent and successful than is commonly appreciated.
Jan 1, 1994
In light of changes in the world situation and in available funds, the Air Force is assessing the roles and effectiveness of existing and planned aircraft.
In seeking concepts to give light forces advantages over their adversaries akin to those enjoyed by heavy forces, the authors identify reconnaissance and combat as the most problematic aspects of light operations.
Jan 1, 1991
Examines the achievement of the principle of unity of effort from a narrow focus on the command and control of U.S. joint tactical air operations in four campaigns (Midway, the Solomons, Korea, and Vietnam) from 1942 to 1968...
Jan 1, 1988
This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year-1988. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1987.
Jan 1, 1987
... considers the schools of thought into which the debaters (the
Jan 1, 1985
Examines the relationship between U.S. casualties and public support for U.S. military intervention in Korea and Vietnam, and concludes that a strong inverse relationship existed between the two.
Jan 1, 1984
This paper is a review of the 1984 revised edition of Military Heritage of America by Ernest and Trevor Dupuy, first published in 1956.
Jan 1, 1981
Analyzes international arms transfers and indigenous arms production by embedding these activities in a framework of economic, diplomatic, and political incentives and constraints.
Jan 1, 1979
This essay, written in 1968, views U.S. involvement in terms of Vietnamese history.
This essay explores the way in which large organizations adapt to innovation by focusing on the U.S. Army's purchase of the M16 rifle.
