The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing to reduce vulnerability and preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These appendixes present supporting analyses, including political challenges and case studies...Daugiau...
This report develops a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, exploring how disruptive campaigns can frustrate an adversarys preferred strategy and enable friendly gains across multiple instruments of national power....Daugiau...
Expanding on prior research, the authors identify the tasks that the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) would likely be assigned by Chinese leaders to achieve strategic goals both in peacetime competition with the United States and in a hypothetical l...Daugiau...
This report explores the potential for competition and conflict among the United States, China, and Russia in Africa; where and why competition might turn into conflict; what form that conflict might take; and the implications for the United State...Daugiau...
This report explores the potential for competition and conflict among the United States, China, and Russia in Latin America; where competition might turn into conflict; what form that conflict might take; and the implications for the United...Daugiau...
This paper shares the results of an exercise hosted by the RAND Corporation to explore the risk of escalation from Chinese activities in the gray zone to conventional war. The results showed an overall low risk of Taiwanese escalation....Daugiau...
This report explores the potential for competition among the United States, China, and Russia in the Middle East; where and why competition might turn into conflict; what form that conflict might take; and the implications for the United Sta...Daugiau...
Raphael S Cohen, Nathan Vest, Elina Treyger, Irina a Chindea, Christian Curriden, Kristen Gunness, Khrystyna Holynska, Marta Kepe, Kurt Klein, Ashley L Rhoades...
This report explores where the United States, China, and Russia may be competing for influence in secondary theaters; where and why competition might turn to conflict; what form that conflict might take; and implications for the United State...Daugiau...
The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing to reduce vulnerability and preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These appendixes present supporting analyses, including political challenges and case studies...Daugiau...
The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. This report assesses the impact on the Mobility Air Forces....Daugiau...
Jonathan P Wong, Katheryn Giglio, Michael J Mazarr, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Michael Bohnert, Scott Boston, Christian Curriden, Derek Eaton, Gregory Weider Fauerbach, Joslyn Fleming...
This report seeks to address how the U.S. Army can most effectively project and employ land power in the Indo-Pacific, during competition and conflict, with a focus on scenarios involving China....Daugiau...
Using a framework of 17 indicators, the authors assess and rank potential host nations for Chinese overseas basing and access. They recommend steps to better understand Chinas overseas plans and to prioritize risks to U.S. forces....Daugiau...
Kristen Gunness, Cortez A Cooper, Bryan Frederick, Timothy R Heath, Emily Ellinger, Christian Curriden, Nathan Chandler, Bonny Lin, Jeb Benkowski, Bryan Rooney...
This report provides a framework of key factors to aid U.S. policymakers in assessing how China may react to shifting U.S. posture in the Indo-Pacific. The authors apply the framework to hypothetical posture enhancements to offer insights....Daugiau...
Cortney Weinbaum, Jon Schmid, Caolionn O'Connell, Steven W Popper, M Scott Bond, Hannah Jane Byrne, Christian Curriden, Gregory Weider Fauerbach, Sale Lilly, Jared Mondschein...
In response to a requirement set in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, the authors examine the strengths and vulnerabilities of Chinas defense industrial base (DIB) by designing and applying a comparative analytic structur...Daugiau...
Chinas economic growth has been accompanied by a rise in its regional and global ambitions. It has sought to fulfill these ambitions in various ways, including through the promotion of new initiatives and institutions. The large number of new instit...Daugiau...
Michael J Mazarr, Eugene Han, Samuel Charap, Abigail Casey, Irina a Chindea, Christian Curriden, Alyssa Demus, Bryan Frederick, Arthur Chan, John P Godges...
The consensus inside and outside the U.S. government is that the international system is headed for a renewed era of intense and sometimes bitter competition among leading states. The objective of this research was to assess the emerging strategic co...Daugiau...
Great powers have frequently employed large, expeditionary military forces engaged in various operations abroad. Some fought wars to defend colonial possessions, while others engaged in bitter fighting alongside besieged allies or undertook other mis...Daugiau...
RAND researchers describe an experimental “thinking-Red” approach to analysis, wargaming, and other exercises to help inform strategies to avoid aggression or escalation in a crisis. It features alternative models of the...Daugiau...
The authors of this report use Chinese primary-source materials to provide a preliminary analysis of China’s expectations for the use of big data analytics and the country’s plans and strategies for development of big dat...Daugiau...
If its current artificial intelligence plan is successful, China will achieve an advantage over the United States and its allies. That has significant strategic implications that the United States must address....Daugiau...
