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This documented briefing addresses the questions of whether militarycompensation is adequate to enable the military services to meet theirmanpower requirements now and in the future and whether action to changemilitary compensation is required now. Major military pay legislation waspassed in 1999 and took effect in Fiscal Year 2000, so there is also aquestion of whether that pay action is sufficient to meet both short-termand long-term challenges in recruiting, retaining, and motivating personnel. more...

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Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) spend long periods at sea, where they cannotattend to their families or to personal business. This reduces morale andaffects retention. The Navy has been exploring ways to allow SWOs more timein home port, and RAND compared the proposed programs’ costs and benefits(though not the direct effects on retention). more...

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This 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...

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With a goal to make content analysis understandable, and to produce a useful guide for novice and experienced researchers, this second edition provides a comprehensive guide to conducting content analysis research. It is a useful reference for researchers in mass communication fields, political science, and other social and behavioral sciences. more...

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... And the Horse He Rode In On gives the first full accounting of what's really behind the longest-running, most expensive dirty trick in politics: Ken Starr's investigation. James Carville's take on the Starr Report is sure to be a much-read manifesto. As his bestselling We're Right, They're Wrong proved, love him or hate him, readers want to read him. more...

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