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The Art of Maneuver
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.00The Art of Maneuver is an important theoretical study of an issue that is currently the subject of much discussion in professional military journals and symposia. more...
Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis and Transformation
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...
Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
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,... more...
Defense Planning in a Decade of Change
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 Operations
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 Development
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...
Army Medical Support to the Army After Next
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 Goals
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...
Hurricane Katrina
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95The efforts undertaken by civilian and military organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina were historically unprecedented, but problems did arise in the military response that contributed to delays in accomplishing evacuations and relief operations across the storm-ravaged areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, particularly New Orleans. A number... more...
Planning for Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 75.00This book aims to serve the military profession, and so the national interest, by helping to generate intelligent reform of how the armed forces train, educate, and promote officers who shape our military strategy and write our war plans. more...









