Authors:Don Snyder, Patrick Mills, Katherine Comanor, Cha
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: global, positioning, system, model, systems, air, force, space, sustaining
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040448
ISBN-13: 9780833040442

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) needs quantitative tools to assist it in making decisions on how changes in the dollars invested in maintenance and sustainment of the ground segment of space systems affect the operational performance of those systems. This monograph outlines criteria for analyzing how sustainment investments affect the operational performance of space systems, focusing on the Global Positioning System. We offer a framework for such analyses and recommend steps to implement that framework.We describe the Global Positioning System at a level of detail needed for the analysis; di

Author: Jamison Jo Medby Russell W. Glenn
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: urban, operations, battlefield, preparation, smart, intelligence, street
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0833031716
ISBN-13: 9780833031716

Urban operations are highly complex because of the multitudes of people and structures as well as the density of the city’s infrastructure. These same features complicate the intelligence and decisionmaking processes associated with military operations at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. Intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB), the Army’s longstanding methodology for incorporating and analyzing relevant information for all types of operations, is currently not effective for tackling the operational and intelligence challenges of urban operations.

Authors:Amatzia Feinberg, Hyman L. Shulman, Louis W. Mill
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: analysis, lantirn, options, expanded, forces, expeditionary, aerospace, supporting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833029037
ISBN-13: 9780833029034

As part of a larger study of support for Expeditionary Aerospace Forces, this analysis addresses logistics structure alternatives for meeting demands for Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) across a spectrum of operational requirements. The LANTIRN system consists of two pods (navigation and targeting) employed by F-16s and F-15Es. The study also amends earlier RAND research with new data collected during the air war over Serbia. The authors compare the current decentralized policy, in which intermediate maintenance capabilities are deployed with flying units,

Authors:David E. Mosher, Beth E. Lachman, Michael D. Gree
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: planning, post, conflict, operations, contingency, army, environmental, considerations, warriors
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043188
ISBN-13: 9780833043184

Recent experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have highlighted the importance of environmental considerations. These range from protecting soldier health and disposing of hazardous waste to building water supply systems and other activities that help achieve national goals in the post-conflict phase of contingency operations. The Army has become increasingly involved with environmental issues in every contingency operation and must be better prepared to deal with them. This study assesses whether existing policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in

Author: John Mackinlay Alison Al-Baddawy
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, volume, study, rand, rethinking
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044753
ISBN-13: 9780833044754

During the period of decolonization in Asia and Africa, the United Kingdom faced more insurgent activity than any other Western power. British government officials and military forces proved proficient at defeating or controlling these rebellions. However, these uprisings were much less complex than the modern jihadist insurgency. Past insurgent movements were primarily monolithic or national in form, had very specific local goals, and derived most of their power from the local population. These limitations made past rebellions vulnerable to strong military responses. In contrast, the modern j

Authors:David E. Johnson, Peter A. Wilson, Richard E. Dar
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: unified, quest, report, force, paths, future, joint
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038214
ISBN-13: 9780833038210

The central study question for the Unified Quest 2004 wargame (UQ 04), cosponsored by Joint Forces Command and the United States Army, focused on identifying the concepts and capabilities required to counteract an adversary who, having lost most of his conventional capability, seeks victory through a combination of protracted, unconventional operations and use of WMD. The overarching purpose of UQ 04 was to explore concepts and capabilities that have come together to form joint operational concepts and

Author: Steve Karmazenuk
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Keywords: unearthing
Number of Pages: 411
Published: 2006-09-11
ISBN-10: 1424131642
ISBN-13: 9781424131648

A massive alien artifact is discovered beneath the desert outside of Laguna, New Mexico. Before its existence can be concealed, the object unearths itself and news of the discovery is leaked to the international media. As religious leaders strive to reconcile the artifact?s existence with their faiths, and governments wrestle over its many secrets and how to exploit them, ordinary men and women around the world struggle to make sense of a perpetual onslaught of live and unfiltered news broadcasts about the object. When a survey team is sent in to examine and explore it, they discover that not