For veterans, leaving the U.S. military can open new doors and raise new questions. In this Q&A, Carrie Farmer and Rajeev ...

In Iran, the United States could return to a full-scale bombing campaign, walk away from the conflict, or stick with 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.

This research was made possible by the Stand Together Trust and Peter Richards. As U.S. retrenchment from Europe gets underway, allies’ reactions will hinge on the manner in which Washington pulls ...

This report assesses the political and social dimensions of American counterinsurgency policy in El Salvador. It attempts to explain why low-intensity-conflict doctrine has not produced the desired ...

A study of several experimental games to test the applicability and usefulness of the axiomatic structures developed by von Neumann, Morgenstern, and others. Flood, Merrill M., Some Experimental Games ...

It is often said that the Vietnam War taught us that the American public is no longer willing to tolerate American casualties in U.S. wars and military operations. There are also two contradictory ...

The RAND Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC) is an ambitious multiyear effort to improve methods of strategy analysis by combining the best features of war gaming and analytic modeling. The approach is ...

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 ...

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 Memorandum describes the thirteen-year life of the JOHNNIAC computer, a Princeton-class machine designed and built at the RAND Corporation in 1953. The history presented here is based on ...

RAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides leaders with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions. The challenges facing humanity are complex. So is the ...