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

Under the American federal system, most law is cast as state statutes and local ordinances; accordingly, most law enforcement is the responsibility of state and local agencies. Federal law and federal ...

This pilot Design Lab engaged clients, clinic leaders, and policy experts to identify barriers and strategies for expanding access to medications for opioid use disorder. Stigma, workforce shortages, ...

An examination of the difficulties of simulating cognitive processes on computers. It reveals that the attempt to analyze intelligent behavior in digital computer language systematically excludes ...

Recent developments in countries such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China seem to suggest that the 20th century may end where it started--not with an "end of ideology" or a ...

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.

This report documents the results of four series of policy exercises conducted under “The Day After... ” project. This summary first describes the assumptions, objectives, and approach of the study, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A description of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System (PPBS), a management tool to provide a better analytical basis for decisionmaking and for putting such decisions into operation. A PPBS is ...

No abstract is available for this document. Ford, L. R., Network Flow Theory. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1956. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P923.html ...