New analysis of public opinion data reveals the complexities behind American support or opposition to U.S. military operations.

Casualties and Consensus: The Historical Role of Casualties in Domestic Support for U.S. Military Operations

Literature & Fiction

Larson, Eric V.

United States

RAND Corporation

Homeland security encompasses five distinct missions: domestic preparedness and civil support in case of attacks on civilians, continuity of government, continuity of military operations, border and coastal defense, and national missile defense. This report extensively details four of those mission areas (national missile defense having been covered in great detail elsewhere). The authors define homeland security and its mission areas, provide a methodology for assessing homeland security response options, and review relevant trend data for each mission area. They also assess the adequacy of the doctrine, organizations, training, leadership, materiel, and soldier systems and provide illustrative scenarios to help clarify Army planning priorities. The report concludes with options and recommendations for developing more costeffective programs and recommends a planning framework that can facilitate planning to meet homeland security needs.

Preparing the U.S. Army for Homeland Security

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

This study reports the efforts of a workshop to build partnerships between universities,industry, and goverments.

Building a New Foundation for Innovation: Results of a Workshop for the National Science Foundation

Business & Money

Economics

Have South Korean attitudes toward the United States deteriorated? To answer this question RAND researchers compiled and analyzed SOuth Korean public opinion data from the past decade.

Ambivalent Allies?: A Study of South Korean Attitudes Toward the U.S. (Technical Report (RAND))

This document supplies the technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on terrorism (GWOT), delineates the sources of support and opposition, and identifies potential fault lines in support.

American Public Support for U.S. Military Operations from Magadishu to Baghdad: Technical Appendixes

History

Military

This book, part of a larger study of ways to reduce collateral damage undertaken for the U.S. Air Force, analyzes media and public reactions to civilian casualty incidents, whether these incidents affect media reporting or public support for military operations, and, if so, how. It examines case studies of incidents of civilian deaths in the February 1991 bombing of the Al Firdos bunker in the Gulf War, the April and May 1999 attacks on the Djakovica convoy and Chinese embassy during the war in Kosovo, the June 2002 attack involving an Afghan wedding party during operations in Afghanistan, and the March 2003 incident involving a large explosion in a crowded Baghdad marketplace to describe and explain how the U.S. and foreign media and publics have responded. For each case study, the study team examined press, public, and leadership responses to these incidents.

Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime

Provides an analytic framework and procedure for the intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that can serve as the basis for IW intelligence curriculum development efforts. Defines IW in terms of two stylized situations: population-centric (such as counterinsurgency) and counterterrorism. Provides a detailed review of IW-relevant defense policy and strategy documents and a list of relevant doctrinal publications.

Assessing Irregular Warfare: A Framework for Intelligence Analysis

Nichiporuk, Brian

Szayna, Thomas S.

Eaton, Derek

The authors aim to assist the U.S. Army in understanding influence operations, capabilities that may allow the United States to effectively influence the attitudes and behavior of particular foreign audiences while minimizing or avoiding combat. The book identifies approaches, methodologies, and tools that may be useful in planning, executing, and assessing influence operations.

Foundations of Effective Influence Operations: A Framework for Enhancing Army Capabilities

Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other soft factors in order to improve the effectiveness of combined arms operations, and to develop practical ways for commanders to integrate information and influence operations activities into combined arms planning/assessment in order to increase the usefulness to ground commanders of such operations.

Understanding Commanders' Information Needs for Influence Operations (Rand Corporation Monograph)

China and India, the world¹s two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This document assesses the relative prospects of China and India through 2025 in four domains: demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending and procurement. In each domain, the authors try to answer the following questions: Who is ahead? By how much? and Why?

China and India, 2025: A Comparative Assessment

Wolf Jr., Charles

Akhmedjonov, Alisher R.

Montoya, Silvia

DaVanzo, Julie

Dalal, Siddhartha

Dogo, Harun

Huang, Meilinda

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