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Format: XII, 370 S.

ISBN: 0-07-023713-1 , 0-07-023714-X

Series Statement: 1980s project studies

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Kernwaffe ; Internationale Politik

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Format: XV, 276 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-521-59107-4

Series Statement: RAND studies in policy analysis

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Außenpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 71 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-94042-2 , 9786612940422 , 0-8330-5027-3

Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series

Content: A critical question surrounding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq is Iraq's internal security and stability. Although the U.S. withdrawal plan is designed with care to avoid weakening Iraq's security, the end of U.S. occupation may alter the strategies of the main Iraqi political actors, each of which has enough armed power to be able to shatter Iraq's domestic peace. In view of the potential for insecurity in Iraq, the United States cannot afford to take a passive or reactive stance. To anticipate dangers and act purposefully, U.S. policy-makers need a dynamic analytic framework with which to examine the shifting motivations and capabilities of the actors that affect Iraq's security. This monograph offers such a framework.

Note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--T.p. , "National Defense Research Institute." , Introduction -- Political and security conditions of U.S. withdrawal -- Future U.S. security responsibilities in Iraq. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4771-X

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (169 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-08167-5 , 9786612081675 , 0-8330-4712-4

Series Statement: Monograph / Rand Corporation

Content: The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them 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 "continuum of force"-a suite of capabilities that includes sound, light, lasers, cell phones, and video cameras. These technologies are available but have received insufficient attention.

Note: "MG-848-OSD." , "Sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense." , "National Defense Research Institute." , Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Framing the Challenge; Current DoD Nonlethal Weapons Programs; CHAPTER TWO: The Policy Setting; The Void Between Lethality and Inaction; Missions Sans Martyrs; Non-COIN Missions; Conclusions; CHAPTER THREE: Possibilities; Stretching Our Thinking; Time, Knowledge, and Judgment Along the Continuum; Nonmilitary Experience; Technological Possibilities; Taking Stock; CHAPTER FOUR: Requirements; Developing Requirements; The General Analytic Framework; A Matrix of Requirements , Confronting UncertaintyInitial Effects; Decision-Making; Analyzing the Scenarios; Conclusions; CHAPTER FIVE: Technology Options; The Active Denial System; Tasers; Dazzlers; Femto-Second Lasers; Sound Arrays; Kinetics; Tear Gas; Anti-Electronics; Flash-Bangs; General Observations; CHAPTER SIX: A Promising Approach; Assessing the Alternatives; A Promising Approach; Adding an Information Component: Cell Phones and Video; Political Realities, Reactions, and Risks; Assessment; CHAPTER SEVEN: Operation, Preparation, and Organization; Notional Concept of Operation; Preparation and Organization , CHAPTER EIGHT: Feasibility, Integration, and ImplementationFeasibility; Integration; Investment and Implementation; CHAPTER NINE: Conclusion and Recommendations; Bibliography , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4684-5

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (81 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-281-18120-X , 9786611181208 , 0-8330-4280-7

Series Statement: Rand counterinsurgency study ; paper 1

Content: Current U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has relied heavily on the use of force against Islamist insurgents-a tactic that has increased their ranks. What is needed instead are stronger cognitive capabilities that will enable more effective COIN against an elusive, decentralized, and highly motivated insurgency-capabilities that will enable the United States to "fight smarter." Cognitive COIN goes beyond information technology and encompasses comprehension, reasoning, and decisionmaking, the components that are most effective against an enemy that is quick to adapt, transform, and regener

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures and Table; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction: Purpose, Scope, and Definitions; Chapter Two - The Mind as Central Front; Chapter Three - Reordering COIN Priorities; Chapter Four - Thoughts of the Jihad; Chapter Five - Closing the Gap; Chapter Six - Cognitive Requirements in Global COIN; Chapter Seven - Cognitive Capabilities for COIN; Understanding Global Insurgency; Global COIN-Shaping Strategy; Global COIN Operations; Chapter Eight - Conclusions: Investment and Reform , Appendix - Investments and Measures to Enhance Cognitive COIN CapabilitiesBibliography , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4021-9

Language: English

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Format: XV,276 S. , graph. Darst., Lit. S. 257-265

Series Statement: RAND Studies in Policy Analysis

Content: Gompert, D. C.: Introduction: a partner for America. - S.1-18. Asmus, R. D.: Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. - S.19-50. Treverton, G.: An economic agenda for the new era. - S.51-78. Thomosm, J. A.: A new partnership, new NATO military structures. - S.79-103. Van Oudernaren, J.: Europe as partner. - S.104-142. Gompert, D. C.: America as partner. - S.143-165. Larrabee, F. S.: Security challenges on Europe's eastern periphery. - S.166-190. Khalilzad, Z.: Challenges in the greater Middle East. - S.191-217. Roper, J.: An European comment. - S.218-230. Gompert, D. C. ; Larrabee, F. S.: Conclusion: institutions and policies. - S.231-256

Note: Gompert, D. C.: Introduction: a partner for America. - S.1-18. Asmus, R. D.: Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. - S.19-50. Treverton, G.: An economic agenda for the new era. - S.51-78. Thomosm, J. A.: A new partnership, new NATO military structures. - S.79-103. Van Oudernaren, J.: Europe as partner. - S.104-142. Gompert, D. C.: America as partner. - S.143-165. Larrabee, F. S.: Security challenges on Europe's eastern periphery. - S.166-190. Khalilzad, Z.: Challenges in the greater Middle East. - S.191-217. Roper, J.: An European comment. - S.218-230. Gompert, D. C. ; Larrabee, F. S.: Conclusion: institutions and policies. - S.231-256.

Language: English

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Format: XIV, 91 S , 23 cm

Edition: 1. print

ISBN: 157906020X

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Language: English

Keywords: NATO ; Informationstechnik

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Format: Online-Ressource (xxviii, 88 p) , ill. (some col.) , 23 cm

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780833040084 , 0833040081

Content: Liberia's new government, under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has made security sector transformation a high priority. The authors analyze Liberia's complex security environment, set forth an integrated security concept to guide the formation and use of those forces and new institutions to manage them, and assemble a complete security structure. They then develop specific force-structure options and discuss the cost-effectiveness of each. Finally, they suggest immediate steps toward implementation of the new security structure. These include development and coordination of detailed integrat

Note: Includes bibliographical references , Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Chapter Two - Security Environment and Demands; Chapter Three - Criteria and Principles; Chapter Four - Forces; Chapter Five - Organizing Government; Chapter Six - Other Issues; Chapter Seven - Key Findings and Implementation Priorities; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780833040084

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Making Liberia Safe : Transformation of the National Security Sector

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Format: 1 online resource (601 p.)

ISBN: 0-8330-8778-9 , 0-8330-8780-0

Content: The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to America's invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures and Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Blunders; A Brief History of Blunders; Strategic Decisionmaking; Models of Reality; Blunders and Information; Structure of the Study; Conclusion; CHAPTER TWO: The Information Value Chain and the Use of Information for Strategic Decisionmaking; The Role of Information in War and Peace; The Information Value Chain; Information and Strategic Blunders; Technology and the Information Value Chain; Individuals and Institutions in the Information Value Chain , Road MapCHAPTER THREE: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812; Man of Destiny; The Russia Problem; Planning for the Best; Hunger, Cold, and Cossacks; Flawed Model of Reality; He Could Have Known Better; CHAPTER FOUR: The American Decision to Go to War with Spain, 1898; Looking for the Right War; Late Nineteenth-Century America and Its Ambitions; The War with Great Britain That Wasn't; Targeting Spain; The Decision; The Results; The Decisionmaking and What to Learn from It; CHAPTER FIVE: Germany's Decision to Conduct Unrestricted U-boat Warfare, 1916; Germany's Dilemma; Kaiser in a Corner , The Military Prevails-Germany LosesWhy Were the Risks Minimized?; The Worst of All Options; CHAPTER SIX: Woodrow Wilson's Decision to Enter World War I, 1917; Ending American Neutrality; Wilson Hesitates, Maneuvers, Then Decides; Realism and Idealism; Reluctant but Right; CHAPTER SEVEN: Hitler's Decision to Invade the USSR, 1941; Hitler's Momentous Mistake; Reversing Defeat and Gazing to the East; The Decision for Operation Barbarossa; From Victory to Defeat; Understanding Hitler and His Environment; A Flawed Theory of Success; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 , Imperial Japan Colonizes ChinaU.S. Backlash; Fateful Decision; Moves Toward War; Decisionmaking in Tokyo; Pyrrhic Victory; Japan's Flawed Model of Success; Conclusion; CHAPTER NINE: U.S.-Soviet Showdown over the Egyptian Third Army, 1973; The Makings of U.S.-Soviet Confrontation; The Fate of the Third Army; Anatomy of Decision; Success; Getting It Right; CHAPTER TEN: China's Punitive War Against Vietnam, 1979; Mitigated Blunder; The Road to War; The Decision to Punish Vietnam; Assessing the War; Deng as Decisionmaker; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979 , The Beginning of the EndMonumental Mistake; Mission Creep, Soviet Style; What Were They Thinking?; Failure to Imagine What Would Happen; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Soviet Decision Not to Invade Poland, 1981; Counterrevolution in Poland; From a Reluctant Yes to a Maybe to an Adamant No; Conversion on the Road to Warsaw; The Days and Years to Follow; Were the Soviets Thinking Straight?; Lessons for Strategic Decisionmaking; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Argentina's Invasion of the Falklands (Malvinas), 1982; As Bad as a Blunder Can Be; Argentine Fury and Folly; In a Trap of Their Own Making; Unhinged from Reality , Rational but Wrong , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-8777-0

Language: English

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Format: xvii, 62 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Rand counterinsurgency study ; paper 1

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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