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: Benjamin R. Karney John S. Crown
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: marriage, divorce, military, research, theory, stress, assessment, data, families
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041452
ISBN-13: 9780833041456

Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001. As a r

Authors:Gregory F. Treverton, Seth G. Jones, Steven Boraz
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: report, workshop, intelligence, theory
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039113
ISBN-13: 9780833039118

In June 2005, the RAND Corporation and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence convened a one-day workshop to discuss how theories underlie intelligence and might lead to both a better understanding and better practice of U.S. intelligence. Forty attendees (practitioners, academics, and specialists) participated in four panels: What Is Intelligence Theory?; Is There an American Theory of Intelligence?; Which Assumptions Should Be Overturned?; and How Can Intelligence Results Be Measured? Issues debated included whether intelligence should be defined narrowly, as secret state activi

Authors:Paul K. Davis, Steven C. Bankes, Michael Egner
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: generation, theory, experiments, scenario, massive, strategic, planning, enhancing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040170
ISBN-13: 9780833040176

This report extends research on using scenarios for strategic planning, with experiments in what can be called massive scenario generation (MSG), a computationally intensive technique that seeks to combine virtues of human- and model-based exploration of

Authors:Benjamin R. Karney, Megan K. Beckett, Rebecca L.
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: review, theory, research, programs, marriages, adult, romantic, relationships, precursors, healthy, adolescent
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041789
ISBN-13: 9780833041784

Policymakers are interested in promoting healthy marriages in adulthood by providing services to strengthen the adolescent precursors of healthy marriage, especially within low-income populations. But if programs and curricula targeting adolescent romantic relationships are to be effective, they must be grounded in an accurate understanding of how adolescent relationships function and the role that they play in the development of healthy adult marriages. This report evaluates the current landscape of theory, research, and interventions addressing the role of adolescent romantic relationships i

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.

Author: John Holbo
Publisher: Parlor Press
Keywords: empire, theory, framing
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2007-01
ISBN-10: 1602350159
ISBN-13: 9781602350151

FRAMING THEORY’S EMPIRE started life as a "book event"--an online, roundtable-style symposium on THEORY’S EMPIRE (Columbia UP, 2005). Two dozen contributors offered reviews, criticism, and commentary. Now in book form, it includes a preface by Scott McLemee and afterthoughts from THEORY’S EMPIRE’S editors. WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID . . . As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. THEORY’S EMPIRE was an important step in that direction. Framing THEORY’S EMPIRe carries on the conversatio