Rand Corporation: 374 books
by Jessica Saunders, Steven W. Popper, Andrew R. Morral
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Israel has changed dramatically in the past two decades. The Israel Police is transforming itself to meet the needs of modern Israel. The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the Israel Police asked RAND to conduct a study to address issues of public perceptions and trust in the...
Thinking About America's Defense
An Analytical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developerof American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one ofthe leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the normalsense...
Predicting Suicide Attacks
Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features....
Withdrawing from Iraq
Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In 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...
Whither Al-Anbar Province?
Five Scenarios Through 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
As U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq, significant changes can be expected throughout al-Anbar Province in security, political, economic, and even cultural relationships. RAND convened a series of three one-day workshops at which participants identified five relatively distinct futures, or scenarios,...
Reconstruction Under Fire
Case Studies and Further Analysis of Civil Requirements
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Building on a framework for integrating civil and military counterinsurgency (COIN) first presented in prior RAND research, this volume presents an approach to the civil component of counterinsurgency that builds on detailed background, context analysis, and threat analysis to identify and develop...
by Jeremiah Goulka, Carl Matthies, Emma Disley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
RAND researchers explored the U.S. and English forensic DNA analysis systems to find out whether England has capitalized more fully on their crime-fighting potential than the U.S. system, processing samples more quickly and providing more database hits for law enforcement.
by Jodi L. Liu, Deborah Lai, Jeanne S. Ringel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
A focused review of RAND Health research identified small ideas that could save the U.S. health care system $13 to $22 billion per year if successfully implemented. They include changing payment policy for emergency transport and greater use of $4 generic drugs. Small ideas do not require systemic...
by Constantine Samaras, Abigail Haddad, Clifford A. Grammich
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Department of Defense (DoD) constructs, operates, and maintains a large number of facilities. DoD incorporates life-cycle cost-effective practices into many aspects of the military planning and construction processes. This report provides RAND's description and assessment of the process used to obtain...
Cataract Blindness and Simulation-Based Training for Cataract Surgeons
An Assessment of the HelpMeSee Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Cataracts cause about half of all cases of blindness worldwide, largely in developing countries. HelpMeSee Inc. is developing a simulator-based method for rapid cataract surgical training that RAND researchers determined could significantly help to close the backlog of cataract cases, expected to be...
Byting BackA-Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
RAND Counterinsurgency StudyA-Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government...
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica
Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica. The project sought to assess how well Santa Monica’s early and school-age care...
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy
An Update of RAND's 1993 Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
This study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy, requested by the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Secretary of Defense in order to weigh repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, examines public and military opinion on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve without restriction;...
by C. Richard Neu, Jack Clift
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This paper asks whether there has been any diminution in the traditional role of U.S. financial markets in leading movements in other financial markets. It examines daily movements in three major equity indexes, how daily changes in one market are correlated with immediately subsequent changes in...