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Conquest in Cyberspace
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00This book shows the risks and protections cyberspace offers for national security and information warfare. more...
Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95Cyberspace, where information--and hence serious value--is stored and manipulated, is a tempting target. An attacker could be a person, group, or state and may disrupt or corrupt the systems from which cyberspace is built. When states are involved, it is tempting to compare fights to warfare, but there are important differences. The author addresses... more...
Collecting the Dots
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Across a wide variety of endeavors, failure to anticipate disaster has been ascribed to the inability to ?connect the dots.? But to ?connect the dots,? one must first ?collect the dots.? The authors investigate the barriers to circulating important information and describes approaches for bringing information together in a meaningful way and describe... more...
The Costs and Benefits of Moving to the ICD-10 Code Sets
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Presents RAND?s analysis of the benefits and costs of mandating a switch (either simultaneously or sequentially) from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, codes for diagnoses and procedures to two code sets based on the 10th revision. more...
How Insurgencies End
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95RAND studied 89 modern insurgency cases to test conventional understanding about how insurgencies end. Findings relevant to policymakers and analysts include that modern insurgencies last about ten years; withdrawal of state support cripples insurgencies; civil defense forces are useful for both sides; pseudodemocracies fare poorly against insurgents;... more...
Exploring Terrorist Targeting Preferences
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95Al Qaeda, the jihadist network personified by Osama bin laden, seeks a restored caliphate free of Western influence. It uses terror as its means. But how does terrorism serve the ends of al Qaeda? Understanding its strategic logic might suggest what U.S. targets it may seek to strike and why. This monograph posits four hypotheses to link means and... more...
How Terrorist Groups End
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95All terrorist groups end. But how do they end? Most groups since 1968 have ended because they joined the political process or are defeated by police and intelligence services. This has significant implications for countering al Qaida. more...
New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single... more...
Byting Back--Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government and an armed opposition movement, the key to exploiting... more...
Underkill
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95The 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 forcea suite of capabilities that includes sound, light, lasers,... more...









