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

Authors:Mark V. Arena, Obaid Younossi, Kevin Brancato, Ir
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: aircraft, over, costs, past, military, several, decades, examination, wing, fixed, risen, macroscopic, cost, trends
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043129
ISBN-13: 9780833043122

This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can. The authors found that this trend of cost increases is true for all types of aircraft

Authors:Henry A. Leonard, J. Michael Polich, Jeffrey D. P
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: something, dynamic, environment, development, army, old, new, leader
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038877
ISBN-13: 9780833038876

Changes in the world over the past two decades have created a dynamic situation

Authors:Mark V. Arena, Irv Blickstein, Obaid Younossi, Cl
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: costs, ship, over, past, decades, several, naval, trends, ships, navy, risen, macroscopic, examination, cost
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039210
ISBN-13: 9780833039217

Over the past several decades, the increases in acquisition costs for U.S. Navy amphibious ships, surface combatants, attack submarines, and nuclear aircraft carriers have outpaced the rate of inflation. To understand why, the authors of this book examined two principal source categories of ship cost escalation: economy-driven factors (which are outside the control of the Navy) and customer-driven factors (features for which the Navy has the most control). The authors also interviewed various shipbuilders to find out their views on other issues contributing to increasing costs. Based on their

Author: Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: stress, uncertainty, times, force, war, managing, america
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833039806
ISBN-13: 9780833039804

For more than three decades, the United States has relied on an all-volunteer force to meet its military needs. Today, the sustainability of that force is being tested with high levels of deployment and subsequent

Authors:Mark V. Arena, Hans Pung, Cynthia R. Cook, Jeffer
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: kingdom, united
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037064
ISBN-13: 9780833037060

The United Kingdom has many contracted and prospective naval shipbuilding programmes on the horizon over the next two decades, ranging from the Astute-class attack submarine to the Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF). The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) wants to know whether the United Kingdom

Author: Jeffrey A. Drezner Robert S. Leonard
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: hae, uav, actd, program, test, flight, development, global, hawk, darkstar, innovative
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0833031139
ISBN-13: 9780833031136

The past three decades have seen a number of less-than-successful efforts to develop high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. In 1994, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in conjunction with the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, initiated an effort