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Department of Defense (DoD) installations rely on the commercial electricity grid for 99 percent of their electricity needs, but the U.S. electricity grid is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks. Using portfolio analysis methods for...

This paper seeks to identify roles in which the nation can leverage these assets in the defense of the homeland. Drug interdiction, port security, disaster relief, search and rescue, and border patrol are just a few potential roles. Finally, this paper looks at potential obstacles, both legal and...

The US and international defense industrial sectors have faced many challenges over the last twenty years, including cycles of growth and shrinkage in defense budgets, shifts in strategic defense priorities, and macroeconomic volatility. In the current environment, the defense sector faces a combination...

A core finding of previous RAND research on 30 years of insurgencies worldwide was that a conflict's overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices perfectly predicted the ultimate outcome. Using the scorecard approach and...

Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An example of such a novel threat is the use of cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by terrorist groups. Individual threats cannot be assessed...

Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital...

Estremecedor testimonio de Antonio Ruiz Castillo, soldado reservista del Ejercito colombiano y luego incorporado como soldado porfesional de la Brigada Móvil #3; hijo de padres venezolanos, quien sobrevivió a una masacre perpetrada por la quinta cuadrilla del Cartel de las Farc en el Urabá, demencial...

This 2010 second edition of the Federal report, Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation, has been the subject of major news reports on revised thinking about shelter-in-place response to a nuclear attack. It provides emergency planners with nuclear detonation-specific response recommendations to maximize the preservation of life in the event of an urban nuclear detonation.

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...

L’invention des bâtiments cuirassés a révolutionné de nos jours, l’art de la guerre maritime, et imprimé un élan tout nouveau à l’industrie métallurgique. Par la grandeur du spectacle qu’elle étale à nos yeux, elle donne la plus haute idée de la puissance matérielle et du génie...

En 1870, au moment où éclata la guerre franco-allemande, nos pièces de campagne étaient rayées, conformément aux remarquables études du général Treuille de Beaulieu, mais elles ne portaient pas le boulet à plus de 800 à 900 mètres ; et pour l’armement de nos parcs de siège, nous...

Nous nous proposons de faire connaître, dans ce Supplément, les modifications introduites dans l’arme à feu portative militaire, depuis la guerre 1870-71 jusqu’au moment présent. Pour introduire quelque clarté dans ce sujet complexe et quelque peu confus, en raison de la multiplicité...

The purpose of this book is to provide concise supplemental reading material to assist both, health-care providers and civilians in the management of biological casualties. The main goal is to make this a reference for all those who need basic summary and treatment information quickly. Table of Contents:...