Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017 Eric Heginbotham, Michael Nixon, Forrest E. Morgan, ... Ferguson, Robyn E., Information Warfare with Chinese Characteristics: China's Future View of Information Warfare and ...
--Automated integration and pattern analysis of inputs from large networks of sensors that use acoustic, infrared, seismic, chemical, and radar detectors will be necessary to interpret the massive volume of activity found in most urban ...
This report assesses the effect of sharing installations and environment geospatial data assets across the Department of Defense Global Information Grid.
21 For an assessment of the conditions in which preventative attacks might be attractive, see Karl P. Mueller, Jasen J. Castillo, Forrest E. Morgan, Negeen Pegahi, and Brian Rosen, Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in ...
For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation.
... Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-481-DHS, 2007. Tom LaTourrette, David R. Howell, David E. Mosher, and John iii Preface.
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas...
This report assesses military use of commercial wideband satellites by evaluating their effectiveness across several characteristics defined by the United States Space Command.
That new forum and champion arrived in a rather unexpected way. In the early 1980s, there arose in Congress a group that I will call, for want of a better name, the “gang of six”: Sen. Sam Nunn ∙ Sen. William Cohen ∙ Sen.
The complexity and sensitivity of counterinsurgency call for vastly better use of IT than has been seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here is a practical plan for just that.
Although much of the growing digital economy rests on the Internet and World Wide Web, which in turn rest on information technology standards, it is unclear how much longer the current momentum can be sustained absent new standards.
The Global Force Management Data Initiative was launched to improve aggregation of unclassified force-structure data.
The research detailed in this book aims to assist decisionmakers tasked with the responsibility of choosing which geospatial information to make available and which to restrict.
An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits Michael J. Lostumbo, Michael J. McNerney, Eric Peltz, Derek Eaton, David R. Frelinger. 34 Many thanks go to RAND colleague Jacob Heim, from whose work and expertise on assessing the ...
Limiting Terrorist Use of Advanced Conventional Weapons James Bonomo, Giacomo Bergamo, David R. Frelinger, Brian A. Jackson, John Gordon, IV. the Sword Limiting Terrorist Use of Advanced Conventional Weapons 'K >> znnnuzn .2.n nun ' I ...
Examines how terrorists make technology choices and how the United States can discourage terrorists' use of advanced conventional weapons.
The monograph concludes with a discussion of cross-cutting lessons about this threat and the assessment of novel threats in general.
The author combines macroeconomic history since the Great Depression with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that history, and explores how that experience may apply to the present economic crisis.
This report presents the results of a fiscal year 2016 RAND Project AIR FORCE add-on project to generate a range of future projections to assist Air Force strategic planning in developing the Air Force Strategic Environment Assessment.
Robert M. Emmerichs, Cheryl Y. Marcum, Albert A. Robbert, David R. Frelinger, Donna Fossum, John Arquilla. The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted ...