As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features. This test case focused on terrorist bombing incidents in Israel, but the findings indicate that the methodology merits further exploration.

Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets

Self-Help

Perry, Walter L.

Berrebi, Claude

Brown, Ryan Andrew

Hollywood, John

Jaycocks, Amber

Roshan, Parisa

Sullivan, Thomas

Miyashiro, Lisa

Death & Grief

RAND Corporation

This report identifies and assesses factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency, terrorism, and other extremist violence to inform military decisions on allocation of analytic and security assistance resources.

Improving the U.S. Military’s Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups: Insights from Social Science

History

Mobley, Blake W.

Thaler, David E.

Gonzalez, Gabriella C.

Military

Concerns about access to behavioral health care for military service members and their dependents living in geographically remote locations prompted research into how many in this population are remote and the effects of this distance on their use of behavioral health care. The authors conducted geospatial and longitudinal analyses to answer these questions and reviewed current policies and programs to determine barriers and possible solutions.

Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pincus, Harold Alan

Marshall, Grant N.

Breslau, Joshua

Farris, Coreen

Osilla, Karen Chan

Ruder, Teague

Voorhies, Phoenix

Barnes-Proby, Dionne

Pfrommer, Katherine

Rana, Yashodhara

Adamson, David M.

Mental Health

Leveraging Machine Learning for Operation Assessment

Computers & Technology

Robinson, Linda

Matthews, Luke J.

Egel, Daniel

Léveillé, Jasmin

Adgie, Mary Kate

Computer Science

The authors evaluated access and quality of care provided to more than 93,000 service members with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, or substance use disorder who reside remotely from a military treatment facility and compared their care with that received by non-remote service members. The assessment identified strengths in and areas for improvement for the Military Health System.

Behavioral Health Care in the Military Health System: Access and Quality for Remote Service Members

Hepner, Kimberly A.

Roth, Carol P.

Corporate Knowledge for Government Decisionmakers: Insights on Screening, Vetting, and Monitoring Processes

Business & Money

Yeung, Douglas

Gehlhaus, Diana

O'Connor, Kathryn

Management & Leadership

The longstanding wars in Iraq and Afghanistan led to significant changes in the provision and delivery of behavioral health care in the U.S. military. Focusing on the 2003-2013 period, the authors sought information on the events and circumstances that prompted the changes. This report highlights selected events and insights of the 17 experts the authors interviewed.

Lessons Learned for Provisioning and Delivering U.S. Military Behavioral Health Care, 2003–2013

Gore, Kristie L.

Terrorism and ideologically inspired violence represent persistent and serious threats to U.S. national security. In this report, the authors aim to characterize why and how 32 individuals joined extremist organizations, as well as how some of them exited these groups. Semistructured interviews were conducted with former extremists and their family members, representing 32 unique stories of 24 white supremacists and eight Islamic extremists.

Violent Extremism in America: Interviews with Former Extremists and Their Families on Radicalization and Deradicalization

Helmus, Todd C.

Ramchand, Rajeev

Rhoades, Ashley L.

Palimaru, Alina I.

Weilant, Sarah

Hiatt, Liisa

Americas

Both Russia and China appear to have employed information manipulation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to serve their respective global agendas. This report, part of the Truth Decay initiative, is one in a series systematically describing the types of COVID-19-related malign and subversive information efforts with which Russia- and China-associated outlets appear to have targeted U.S. audiences in the first half of 2020.

Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information on COVID-19: Russian and Chinese Efforts Targeting the United States

Migacheva, Katya

Matthews, Miriam

Behavioral Health Care Delivery Following the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Utilization, Telehealth, and Quality of Care for Service Members with ... or Substance Use Disorder (Research Report)

Sousa, Jessica L.

Parast, Layla

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