Authors:Glenn Buchan, David M. Matonick, Calvin Shipbaugh
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, strategy, forces, nuclear, roles, future
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003
ISBN-10: 0833029177
ISBN-13: 9780833029171

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been reexamining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security policy. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary U.S. national security policy. The U.S. nuclear forces are only somewhat reduced from what the nation has maintained for decades. It has a range of nuclear strategies and postures among which to choose: from abolition of U.S. nuclear weapons, aggressive reductions and

Authors:Eric V. Larson, Derek Eaton, Paul Elrick, Theodor
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: term, strategy, regions, strategic, access, key, assuring
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035444
ISBN-13: 9780833035448

The Army cannot effectively project power if it cannot get to where it needs to go to confront future adversaries. The authors of this report developed scenarios and conducted political-military games to determine what strategies, tactics, and capabilities potential adversaries might use to prevent or complicate U.S. access to key areas and how effective the U.S. counters to these tactics are. After their assessment, the authors were reasonably sanguine about the ability of the U.S. to prevail in the near term, but they also identified areas of future concern and suggested several improvements

Authors:John F. Schank, Giles K. Smith, John Birkler, Bri
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: navy, options, strategy, competition, acquisition
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038702
ISBN-13: 9780833038708

As the Navy

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: Brian Michael Jenkins
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: suggestions, strategy, situation, appreciation, qaeda, countering
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 083303264X
ISBN-13: 9780833032645

Having achieved its initial goals in the war on terrorism, the United States is now in a second, more complex phase of the campaign. This monograph reviews events since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and discusses the current state of the al Qaeda organization and the kinds of actions that can be expected of it in the foreseeable future. Because al Qaeda constitutes the most serious immediate threat to the security of the United States, it is imperative that the campaign against terrorism remain focused and pragmatic. This monograph outlines and describes the essential, central elements th

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

Author: John D. Williams
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: games, strategy, theory, primer, strategyst, compleat
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN-10: 083304222X
ISBN-13: 9780833042224

When The Compleat Strategyst was originally published in 1954, game theory was an esoteric and mysterious subject, familiar only to specialized researchers, particularly in the military. Its prominence today can be traced at least in part to this classic book, which popularized the subject for amateurs, professionals, and students throughout the world. This is a reprint of a 1966 revised edition of the book originally published in 1954.