U.S.-ROK cooperation on shipbuilding should be structured so that it strengthens U.S. maritime industrial capacity, makes ...

Twenty-five years later, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the United States mistook quiet for peace.

The U.S. defense strategy and posture have become insolvent. The tasks that the nation expects its military forces and other elements of national power to do internationally exceed the means that are ...

Migration over the U.S. southwest border in the past decade has been composed of growing numbers of undocumented and asylum-seeking families and children from Mexico and Central America, with larger ...

The aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria highlighted vulnerabilities in Puerto Rico's water sector. Hurricane damage spanned Puerto Rico's water infrastructure, including drinking water, wastewater, ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in essential infrastructure and services, the risks associated with unintended failures rise. Future critical failures from ...

The objectives of this research were to: (1) translate the RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.0 (aka SF-36) into Arabic; (2) evaluate the reliability and equivalence of the Arabic and English versions in a ...

The pattern of American life and death has shifted dramatically in the last century. People live longer, healthier lives. Relatively few die of acute causes. Instead, most Americans die from lingering ...

“RAND, America's original think tank, earns its money fishing truths out of murky political and social waters. The quantitative conscience of RAND, often the final arbiter of what constitutes the true ...

A description of the Delphi Technique which attempts to make effective use of informed intuitive judgment in long-range forecasting. The Delphi method in its simplest form solicits the opinions of ...

The results of a calculation of the blast wave resulting from the explosion of a sphere of air initially at rest and at standard sea-level density but at 20,000 atmospheres pressure. These results are ...

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.