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America's Role in Nation-Buildingby James Dobbins; John G. McGinn; Keith Crane; Seth G. Jones; Rollie Lal
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95In Iraq, the United States is facing its most challenging nation-building project since the 1940s. The authors draw lessons from seven case studies--Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--then apply these to the Iraq case. The results suggest that nation-building will be difficult but possible. Success will, however, require investing sufficient financial, military, and political resources--and time. more...
Changing Directionby Julian Lewis
Frank Cass 2002; US$ 44.95This volume records the transition from planning against any post-war resurgence of German and Japanese militarism to preparations against a possible threat from the Soviet Union. more...
Defense Planning in a Decade of Changeby Eric V. Larson; David Orletsky; Kristin Leuschner
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report describes the challenges policymakers have faced as a result of three major force structure reviews: the 1990 Base Force, the 1993 Bottom-Up Review and the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review. The report recommends that key planning assumptions are continually reassessed. more...
Effects-based Operationsby Paul K. Davis
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Discusses features and considerations for future analyses of effects-based operations. The monograph suggests principles for sharpening discussions of EBO, illustrates the principles with explicit models, then sketches a possible research programme to enrich the base for studying and practising. more...
A Framework for Strategy Developmentby John G. McGinn
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Previous formulations of American military strategy, such as the "Shape, Respond, Prepare Now" approach that the Department of Defense used from 1997-2001, have been more on philosophy than practicalities. This work covers a framework designed to better link strategy with resource priorities. more...
Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis and Transformationby Paul K. Davis
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out. more...
Army Medical Support to the Army After Nextby Center for Military Health Policy Research; Gary Cecchine
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95The Army is planning now to ensure that the Army After Next will have the required medical capabilities in 2025. As part of this planning it conducted Medical Technology Workshop 1999 to help it make the proper technology acquisition decisions. more...
Metrics for the Quadrennial Defense Review's Operational Goalsby Charles Kelley
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The US Department of Defense has adopted an approach to defence planning based on capabilities rather than scenarios. It is using this approach to transform the military to meet national security challenges. This book examines this trend. more...
Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)by Leslie Lewis; Harry Thie; Roger Brown; John Schrader
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides an assessment of The Army Plan (TAP) 2000-2015, the document that provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups. The authors identify several problems, including mixing of operational and institutional functions, overlapping areas, overly broad and inappropriate mission areas, unwieldy structure, and imprecise performance measures. more...
Chemical and Biological Warfareby Al Mauroni
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 55.00The first introductory work of its kind to survey the fundamentals, policies, and strategies of chemical and biological warfare from 1915 to the present. From agent orange to anthrax, chemical and biological warfare is often viewed as an abhorrent, immoral weapon abused by evil despots of weaker nations. more...









