Product Description: China and India, the world¹s two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This document assesses the relative prospects of China and India through 2025 in four domains: demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending and procurement...read more
9780833050427 | Rand Corp, September 16, 2011, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: China and India, the world¹s two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades.
Product Description: Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other soft factors in order to improve the effectiveness of combined arms operations, and to develop practical ways for commanders to integrate information and influence operations activities into combined arms planning/assessment in order to increase the usefulness to ground commanders of such operations...read more
9780833046918 | Rand Corp, December 30, 2009, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other soft factors in order to improve the effectiveness of combined arms operations, and to develop practical ways for commanders to integrate information and influence operations activities into combined arms planning/assessment in order to increase the usefulness to ground commanders of such operations.
Product Description: The authors aim to assist the U.S. Army in understanding influence operations, capabilities that may allow the United States to effectively influence the attitudes and behavior of particular foreign audiences while minimizing or avoiding combat...read more
Product Description: Provides an analytic framework and procedure for the intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that can serve as the basis for IW intelligence curriculum development efforts. Defines IW in terms of two stylized situations: population-centric (such as counterinsurgency) and counterterrorism...read more
9780833043221 | Rand Corp, November 1, 2008, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Provides an analytic framework and procedure for the intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that can serve as the basis for IW intelligence curriculum development efforts.
Product Description: This book, part of a larger study of ways to reduce collateral damage undertaken for the U.S. Air Force, analyzes media and public reactions to civilian casualty incidents, whether these incidents affect media reporting or public support for military operations, and, if so, how...read more
9780833038975 | Rand Corp, March 30, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book, part of a larger study of ways to reduce collateral damage undertaken for the U.
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9780833042446 | Rand Corp, February 9, 2007, cover price $9.95
Product Description: Technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on terrorism.
9780833036834 | Rand Corp, May 30, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on terrorism.
9780833035448 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: How does the ARmy plan to ensure its continued access to potential trouble spots around the world?
Product Description: Have South Korean attitudes toward the United States deteriorated? To answer this question RAND researchers compiled and analyzed SOuth Korean public opinion data from the past decade.
9780833031587 | Rand Corp, June 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This study reports the efforts of a workshop to build partnerships between universities,industry, and goverments.
Product Description: The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of profound change in the international arena and hence in the policymaking environment as well. Yet the changes that have characterized the post-Cold War era have often proceeded at different paces and have at times moved in opposing directions, placing unprecedented strain on policymakers seeking to shape a new national security and military strategy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780833030245 | Rand Corp, July 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of profound change in the international arena and hence in the policymaking environment as well.
9780833036728 | Rand Corp, May 30, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes American public opinion toward wars and other large military operations over the last decade.
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9780833040633 | Rand Corp, June 2, 2001, cover price $9.95
Product Description: Homeland security encompasses five distinct missions: domestic preparedness and civil support in case of attacks on civilians, continuity of government, continuity of military operations, border and coastal defense, and national missile defense...read more
9780833029195 | Rand Corp, October 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Homeland security encompasses five distinct missions: domestic preparedness and civil support in case of attacks on civilians, continuity of government, continuity of military operations, border and coastal defense, and national missile defense.
Product Description: Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa to compel recalcitrant regimes and warlords to stop repression, abandon weapons programs, permit humanitarian relief, and otherwise modify their actions...read more
9780833027436 | Rand Corp, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.
Product Description: To say we live in a technological age is an understatement, as is evident in this book. The authors surveyed presidents, CEOs, and CTOs from nearly 40 firms representing various industries. The result is an insightful examination of the five major technologies that U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780833026514 | Rand Corp, February 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: To say we live in a technological age is an understatement, as is evident in this book.
Product Description: Examines the intelligence needs of three groups of Army long-range planners--strategic planners, force developers and acquisitions--and considers the potential of Army intelligence to satisfy these needs.
9780833026491 | Rand Corp, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines the intelligence needs of three groups of Army long-range planners--strategic planners, force developers and acquisitions--and considers the potential of Army intelligence to satisfy these needs.
9780833023704 | Rand Corp, January 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: New analysis of public-opinion data reveals the complexities behind American support or opposition to U.
Product Description: In this report, the authors describe a methodology for allocating resources among various facets of missile defense. Their model takes into account the number of attacking objects, the requirement that no missiles get through, the number of layers of defense, the probability of kill by the interceptors in each layer, other operational parameters, and cost considerations...read more
9780833015792 | Rand Corp, January 1, 1994, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In this report, the authors describe a methodology for allocating resources among various facets of missile defense.