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A Report on the Army Transformation Wargame
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95Wargames are tools for developing strategy and vision. The Training Doctrine and Command-sponsored Army Transformation Wargame (ATWG) 2000, was held in Pennsylvania in spring 2000. This report presents RAND's analysis of ATWG 2000, identifying its issues and exploring the implications. more...
Information Sharing Among Military Headquarters
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95New concepts such as network-centric operations and distributed and decentralised command and control have been suggested as technologically enabled replacements for platform-centric operations and for centralised command and control in military operations. more...
Analytic Support to Intelligence in Counterinsurgencies
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that U.S. forces need more-effective techniques and procedures to conduct counterinsurgency. They will most likely face similar, irregular warfare tactics from future enemies. This monograph examines the nature of the contemporary insurgent threat and provides insights on using operational analysis techniques... more...
Exploring Information Superiority
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Assessing how technology contributes to information superiority and decision dominance a major challenge, in part because it demands quantitative measures for what are usually considered qualitative concepts. The authors have developed a mathematical framework to aid these efforts. Additional work, such as data fitting, experimentation, linking decisions... more...
Disjointed War
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The 1999 military operation in Kosovo had several deficiences in joint military operations. This study examines all aspects of the conflict, including its political and historical underpinnings, in an attempt to understand these deficiences and to recommend improvements. more...
Withdrawing from Iraq
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent with the Obama administrations intentions,... more...
The Future of Warfare
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95Highlights the events and insights from the 1999 "Army After Next" (AAN) series of seminars and wargames, designed to explore the nature of warfare 30 years into the future and help develop a long-term vision of the army. more...
Measures of Effectiveness for the Information-age Army
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This document reports on a small set of information-age measures of effectiveness (MOEs) for the Army, developed in an attempt to spark the creation of more measures. The research shows that development of MOEs is feasible, not only for combat operations but for stability operations too. more...
Network-Based Operations for the Swedish Defence Forces
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Presents a methodology to help the Swedish Ministryof Defence assess costs and benefits of architectures for network-basedoperations as the Swedish Defence Forces are reoriented to a wider suite ofmissions than homeland defence, including operations far from Sweden. more...
Premature Burial
Hesperus Press Ltd. 2013; US$ 8.74Addressed to a petrified Victorian society, this spine-chilling volume, long of out print and here republished in a modern edition, brings together a collection of unnerving stories of live burials and narrow escapes. An assortment of anecdotes based on historical materials and real accounts, Premature Burial was written to reassure or warn nineteenth-century... more...
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