U.S.-ROK cooperation on shipbuilding should be structured so that it strengthens U.S. maritime industrial capacity, makes ...

Twenty-five years later, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the United States mistook quiet for peace.

Israel's strategy in Gaza is only keeping Hamas in power—deterred, but not replaced, with no real alternative given a chance.

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in essential infrastructure and services, the risks associated with unintended failures rise. Future critical failures from ...

The pattern of American life and death has shifted dramatically in the last century. People live longer, healthier lives. Relatively few die of acute causes. Instead, most Americans die from lingering ...

In the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf conflict, special operations forces (SOF) conducted reconnaissance operations to locate hidden targets when political and other considerations prevented the ...

The arrival of postindustrial society has transformed the traditional bases of national power, and thus the methods used to measure the relative power of nations should be reassessed as well.

Advances in technology can bring about dramatic changes in military operations, often termed revolutions in military affairs or RMAs. Such technology-driven changes in military operations are not ...

This report deals with one aspect of RAND's continuing study of methods for improving decisionmaking. It describes the results of an extensive set of experiments conducted at RAND during the spring ...

A draft chapter of a proposed book on military planning in an uncertain world. The levels of war gaming discussed are (1) the informal game, an attempt to determine the enemy's reactions; (2) rule ...

Contemporary Islam is struggling within itself over its values, identity, and place in the world, with rivals contending for spiritual and political dominance--as well as with the "outside" world. In ...

China’s two decades of rapid economic growth have fueled a demand for energy that has outstripped domestic sources of supply. China became a net oil importer in 1993, and the country’s dependence on ...