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

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 ...

This paper was written as a contribution to a book that the U.S. Institute of Peace was preparing for publication. It describes how two erstwhile Marxist guerrilla movements — the Tigrean and the ...

Addressing today’s most pressing substance use issues. Informing the drug policy of the future. Substance use and efforts to influence it are the subject of serious policy debates around the world.

Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, and an increasing number of experts contend that the creation of superintelligence is possible. Although progress might slow or even halt, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A discussion of the problem of building digital communication networks using links with less than perfect reliability. The redundancy level used is defined as a measure of connectivity. The systems ...

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 ...

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 ...