This report describes how the Israel Defense Force fought an adaptive hybrid adversary in a dense urban setting under intense public scrutiny during its wars in Gaza and draws lessons from the Israeli
This appendix to The Army’s Local Economic Effects provides descriptions of the overall economic effects for each state, details by fiscal year from 2012–2014, and a parsing of the data by congression
This appendix to The Army’s Local Economic Effects provides descriptions of the overall economic effects for each state, details by fiscal year from 2012–2014, and a parsing of the data by congression
Results of a systematic analysis of what is needed to ensure the sustainability of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and recommendations for future actions to achieve this goal. The QNRF must ma
Defense acquisition is one of the most urgent issues that the Department of Defense faces today. In an effort to provide the department and the nation with guidance on defense acquisition challenges i
The U.S. Air Force leadership plans in the near term to identify arid implement a range of initiatives for enhancing the service's contributions to irregular warfare (IW) operations and to meet DoD g
Increases in educational attainment benefit the public because more highly educated people tend to pay more in taxes, are less likely to use social support programs, and are less likely to commit crim
The appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito made this a momentous year for the Supreme Court. Now, speculation is rife about the impact these justices will have o
Should the U.S. reinstate the draft? With this inside look at the Pentagon and the White House, the author reviews the American military's transformation over the past thirty years into the world's fi
This report/CD-ROM package describes a two-year study by RAND Health on the importance of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) in improving health and reducing healthcare costs. The report examin
This report presents a framework for measuring safety in automated vehicles (AVs): how to define safety for AVs, how to measure safety for AVs, and how to communicate what is learned or understood abo
In this report, we evaluate the three business models that the Army relies on for its on-post rail operations and determine whether greater reliance on commercial rail assets could meet Army rail need
Seeking to reduce the $4 billion that it spends annually on spare parts, the Air Force asked RAND researchers to identify the causes and gauge the effects of flying hour variance (the difference betwe
On January 12, 2015, the UCLA–RAND Center for Law and Public Policy held a conference in Santa Monica, California, to examine the resourcing problem for state courts since the 2008 financial cri
The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine created an opportunity for change and reforms in a system that had resisted them for 25 years. This report provides an overview of recommendations for the reform of Uk
Air Force senior leaders have asked whether the service is sufficiently innovative today and what can be done to make it more innovative for the future. This report assesses historical cases of Air Fo
In response to the lack of a comprehensive tool to assess a country1s defense sector and its ability to counter a range of security threats, a RAND team developed the Defense Sector Assessment Rating
In May-June 2009, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq1s most violent areas. The resulting data on security and the effects of war, public infrastructure, demogr
Following an earlier RAND study of public support for earlier conflicts, this one analyzes public poll data from the final stage of the Somalia disaster to the ongoing occupation of Iraq and the everl
Members of the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition reveal its initial findings into incorporating factors 25 to 100 years in the future into d
As part of a larger study on the future of the post–World War II liberal international order, RAND researchers analyze the health of the existing order and offer implications for future U.S. pol
The leadership of Qatar is greatly invested in its K12 education reform, Education for a New Era, because it views education as the key to the nation's economic and social progress. This study, one o
Are older drivers posing increasing risk to the public? If so, what public policies might mitigate that risk? Older drivers (those 65 and older) are slightly likelier than drivers aged 25 to 64 to cau
Coercion—the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior—is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and t
A collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, along with a bank of 76 factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of eac
Lingel et al. present alternative methods to approach U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tasking and the command and control processes and assess the outcome of differ
The time may be ripe for a broad rethinking of international economic arrangements. This book reviews the options to consider since the 1994 conference in Bretton Woods.
