This report describes a set of scenarios through which the authors explore the hypothesis that U.S.-China competition plausibly could lead to wars that endure longer than envisioned by traditional force planning scenarios. This report des...Daugiau...
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) can be used to influence behavior by causing temporary, reversible effects, but there has been limited analysis regarding how the U.S. Department of Defense could or should employ NLWs. This report draws on psychological an...Daugiau...
Abbie Tingstad, Stephanie Pezard, Scott Savitz, Benjamin J Sacks, Yuliya Shokh, Irina a Chindea, Scott R Stephenson, Michael T Wilson, James G Kallimani, Kristin Van Abel...
This report summarizes the findings of research on U.S. and other armed forces capabilities in the Arctic, the extent to which non-U.S. entities are operating where U.S. forces cannot, and how those operations might affect U.S. national interests...Daugiau...
The authors of this report describe how to measure the impact of intermediate force capabilities (IFCs), which cause less-than-lethal effects, and how to better integrate them into wargaming, modeling, and simulation for U.S. and NATO-wide f...Daugiau...
This report summarizes the findings of Evergreen V, the most recent iteration of an ongoing U.S. Coast Guard initiative aimed at identifying emerging challenges and future trends so that senior leaders can plan for the long term....Daugiau...
This report describes how to evaluate the impact of non-lethal weapons (NLWs). Characterizing the contribution of NLWs to strategic goals provides insights into their effective integration throughout U.S. Department of Defense operations. ...Daugiau...
This report documents a research project that focused on identifying priority potential Arctic capability gaps with respect to U.S. Coast Guard operations in the region in the present and in the 2030s....Daugiau...
Abbie Tingstad, Stephanie Pezard, Michael T Wilson, Katherine Anania, Jordan R Fischbach, Susan A Resetar, Scott Savitz, Kristin Van Abel, R J Briggs, Aaron C Davenport...
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Evergreen strategic foresight initiative works to identify emerging service challenges that require focus in the near term. This report describes an approach to developing future scenarios to aid in that proc...Daugiau...
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) depends on its fleet of more than 1,600 boats to conduct its most critical operations, which span all 11 of the USCGs statutory missions. These boats must be replaced frequently, given the harsh environments and challengi...Daugiau...
This study analyzes technological successes and identifies capability gaps regarding technological countermeasures to radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant accident....Daugiau...
Report explores the U.S. Navys options for adopting modularity and flexibility concepts in ship design to mitigate risks of adapting to uncertain future missions and technologies, as well as potentially reduce modernization and/or initia...Daugiau...
This report documents logic models detailing elements of the Coast Guards missions, examines existing metrics, and proposes potential metrics that could improve on or complement existing metrics, together with a framework for applying th...Daugiau...
