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

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

Answers to frequently asked questions about RAND include what RAND does, what makes it different, how projects are selected, and more.

This report assesses the political and social dimensions of American counterinsurgency policy in El Salvador. It attempts to explain why low-intensity-conflict doctrine has not produced the desired ...

A study of several experimental games to test the applicability and usefulness of the axiomatic structures developed by von Neumann, Morgenstern, and others. Flood, Merrill M., Some Experimental Games ...

Contemporary Islam is struggling within itself over its values, identity, and place in the world, with rivals contending for spiritual and political dominance--as well as with the "outside" world. In ...

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 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 ...

Netanyahu May Have Ignored a Dire Warning. Israel Ignores the Deeper Threat.

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 ...

A discussion of the problem of building digital communication networks using links with less than perfect reliability. The redundancy level used is defined as a measure of connectivity. The systems ...

This Memorandum describes the thirteen-year life of the JOHNNIAC computer, a Princeton-class machine designed and built at the RAND Corporation in 1953. The history presented here is based on ...