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National Security

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Great-Power Competition Outside the Indo-Pacific and Europe

The United States has made countering the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific and checking Russian revanchism in Europe core priorities of its national security strategy. Historically, however, great-power competition and conflict have taken place outside the theaters of core concern to the competing powers.

New RAND research explores how the United States, China, and Russia might compete elsewhere in the world—primarily in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors also look at where and why competition in these secondary theaters could turn into conflict, what form that conflict might take, and what implications the findings have for the United States.
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Testimonies

Researchers in the Naval Postgraduate School’s Department of Applied Mathematics are supporting an ambitious research effort to apply new approaches in high-fidelity computer modeling, including machine learning, that will take advantage of future computing capabilities and realize the potential for significant improvements in the accuracy of hurricane prediction, photo by U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for the Department of Defense

Jason Matheny

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The China's PLA's Rocket Force conducts conventional missile tests off the eastern coast of Taiwan in this handout released on August 4, 2022, photo by EyePress via Reuters

EyePress via Reuters

The Chinese Acquisition Process

Christian Curriden

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A staff member is congratulated as he steps out of China's home-grown C919 passenger jet after its maiden flight at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, May 5, 2017, photo by Aly Song/Reuters

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U.S.-China Aviation Competition: Military, Commercial, and General Aviation are Different

Chad J. R. Ohlandt

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Cyber Threats to Canada’s Defence Infrastructure

Quentin E. Hodgson

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Corporate Publications

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Truth Decay and National Security: Intersections, Insights, and Questions for Future Research

Heather J. Williams et al.

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National Security Research Division

Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat?

Kristie L. Gore et al.

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Improving Transition Assistance for Reserve Component Members

Agnes Gereben Schaefer et al.

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Demographic Diversity of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce in the U.S. Department of Defense: Analysis of Compensation and Employment Outcomes

Jessie Coe et al.

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Assessing Security Risk in a New Normal: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Personal and Work Behaviors

Douglas Yeung et al.

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Characterizing the Uncrewed Systems Industrial Base

Bradley Wilson et al.

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Comparing Taliban Social Media Usage by Language: Who’s Speaking and What’s Being Said

Bradley M. Knopp et al.

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A History of the Strategic Implications of the Great Recession and Its Aftermath on U.S. National Defense

Stephanie Young et al.

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Representatives from the United States, Canada, Lithuania, NATO, and Ukraine discuss the noncommissioned officer development-training course at the Office of Defensive Cooperation in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2016

Staff Sgt. Adriana M. Diaz-Brown/U.S. Army

Imagining the Future of Professional Military Education in the United States: Results from a Virtual Workshop

Emily Ellinger et al.

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U.S. Army

Network Logistics Games: Design and Implementation

Sydney Litterer et al.

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Project Air Force

United Launch Alliance

The Resilience Assessment Framework: Assessing Commercial Contributions to U.S. Space Force Mission Resilience

Osonde A. Osoba et al.

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Army Research Division

U.S. Army

Army Full-Time Support Processes: Considerations for Enhancing Common Understanding, Transparency, and Unity of Purpose

Michael E. Linick et al.

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RAND Congressional Resources Staff

Jayme Fuglesten
Director, Office of Congressional Relations

Kurt Card
National Security Legislative Analyst

Nathaniel Lutovsky
Legislative Analyst

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