Authors:Russell W. Glenn, Jody Jacobs, Brian Nichiporuk,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: training, strategy, america, operations, urban, proven, inevitable, preparing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038710
ISBN-13: 9780833038715

Because future military operations are likely to include actions in densely populated, built-up areas, joint and service training initiatives over the past decade have increasingly reflected an interest in preparing for such contingencies. To assist the military community in better orchestrating its resources to improve forcewide readiness for urban operations, RAND was asked to develop a joint urban training strategy for the period 2005-2011.This report presents that strategy and describes the process used to develop it. The study identifies areas in need of redress and proposes ways in which

Authors:David C. Gompert, Stuart E. Johnson, Martin C. Li
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: amid, populations, operations, military, scalable, capabilities, underkill
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046845
ISBN-13: 9780833046840

The battle for Gaza revealed an extremist strategy: hiding in cities and provoking attack to cause civilian deaths that can be blamed on the attacking forces. The U.S. and allied militaries, having no options but lethal force or no options at all, are ill-equipped to defeat this strategy. The use of lethal force in dense populations 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

Author: Austin Long
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: war, rand, research, decades, lessons, cold, deterrence, six
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044826
ISBN-13: 9780833044822

Since its inception six decades ago, the RAND Corporation has been one of the key institutional homes for the study of deterrence. Never a well-loved concept in the United States, deterrence lost any luster it held after the Cold War. The 2002 U.S. national-security strategy proclaimed deterrence’s irrelevance for most future national-security challenges. However, the 2006 version of this strategy reversed this move, recognizing that deterrence will be as indispensable for the

Author: Melvin Dresher
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: applications, theory, strategy, games
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833042254
ISBN-13: 9780833042255

Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications, originally published by Prentice Hall in 1961, was written by Melvin Dresher, a RAND research mathematician, during the heyday of Game Theory at RAND. This book introduced readers to the basic concepts of game theory and its applications for military, economic, and political problems, as well as its usefulness in decisionmaking in business, operations research, and behavioral science. More than forty years after its first publication as a RAND research study, and to celebrate RAND

Author: Sun Tzu
Publisher: Shambhala
Keywords: war, art
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-01-11
ISBN-10: 1590302257
ISBN-13: 9781590302255

Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition

Author: Carl J. Dahlman
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: savings, force, reductions, computing, method, military, person, year, cost
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041517
ISBN-13: 9780833041517

The Department of Defense strives to only use military personnel for military-essential tasks and has consistently recommended the civilianization of ever-more military functions and positions. This guidance also stems from the belief that military personnel cost more than comparable civilians. As a policy, civilianization can only be properly applied when it is an integral element of a broader personnel-management strategy. This work presents a new method of estimating the cost of a military person-year that focuses on the actual cost of the retirement benefits that the federal government mus

Authors:Matthew W. Lewis, Aimee Bower, Mishaw T. Cuyler,
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: support, hospitals, combat, strategies, equipping, new
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0833049968
ISBN-13: 9780833049964

Combat Support Hospitals, when not deployed, keep a partial set of equipment at home station with the remainder in long-term storage, a strategy that has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. This briefing describes a new strategy for configuring home station equipment sets and proposes that deploying CSHs eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment currently in long-term storage, actions that will sharply reduce total equipment costs. From the Publisher:The U.S. Army uses Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) — mobile, deployable hospitals housed in tents and expandable containers