The authors worked with panels of qualified scientists, defense experts, and naval officers to develop a concept of operation for a possible replacement platform, analyzing which military and scientific missions should have the highest priorities for their deep-diving research submarines.

A Concept of Operations for a New Deep-Diving Submarine

Johnson, Stuart E.

Button, Robert W.

Wise, John R.

Lacroix, F. W.

Arts & Photography

RAND Corporation

A debate will likely occur in 2009 about U.S. global national-security strategy. The authors describe and illustrate a methodology to help frame and evaluate resource-informed strategies. The core is an integrated portfolio-analysis approach that compares options by their anticipated effectiveness, risks, and resource implications, Three illustrative grand strategies are compared, which deal in different ways with the problems of our time.

Developing Resource-Informed Strategic Assessments and Recommendations

Business & Money

Long, Duncan

Davis, Paul K.

Gompert, kavid C.

Economics

In a fluid global security environment such as ours, assessing the costs, risks, and likely consequences of alternative national defense strategies is as hard as it is essential. The authors show how, even in the face of uncertainty, the costs and other implications of any strategy can be assessed by examining the capabilities needed by U.S. combatant commands

Analysis of Strategy and Strategies of Analysis

Gompert, David C.

The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them can harm and alienate the very people whose cooperation U.S. forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a new RAND study proposes a 3continuum of force2

Underkill: Scalable Capabilities for Military Operations Amid Populations

History

Gordon, John

Libicki, Martin C.

Frelinger, David R.

Military

In 2007, the United States imported 58 percent of the oil it consumed. This book critically evaluates commonly suggested links between these imports and U.S. national security and assesses the economic, political, and military costs and benefits of potential policies to alleviate imported oil-related challenges to U.S. national security.

Imported Oil and U.S. Security

Crane, Keith

Light, Thomas

Goldthau, Andreas

Toman, Michael

International

In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent with the Obama administration1s intentions, one somewhat slower, and another faster. It also identifies steps to alleviate constraints and risks.

Withdrawing from Iraq: Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies

Perry, Walter L.

Middle East

In 2003, the U.S. Army began a process to transform from a division-based to a modular force structure. Congress requested a study of the process and outcomes of the initiative to assess the impact on the Army¹s capabilities in a range of operations.

A Review of the Army's Modular Force Structure

Martin, Aaron

Peters, John E.

Kitchens, Karin E.

This report presents an analysis of a range of defense institution building (DIB) programs and activities, recommends a set of goals and objectives for achieving them, identifies partner nation and DIB activity selection criteria, develops a strategy for coordinating DIB activities, and recommends procedures for achieving accountability and assessment.

Defense Institution Building: An Assessment

Pezard, Stephanie

Stebbins, David

Oak, Gillian S.

Feng, Chaoling

Command and control systems Command and control systems/ Congresses Command and control systems/ United States/ Congresses Military art and science Military art and science/ Decision making/ Congresses Political Science / General Technology &amp; Engineering / Military Science United States

Science of Command and Control Part 1: Coping With Uncertainity (Aip Information Systems Series, Vol 1)

Engineering & Transportation

Levis, Alexander H.

Engineering

Afcea Intl Pr

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