Martin C Libicki - Böcker

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's compu...

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Considers potential Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses. For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformatio...

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The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them can harm and alienate the very people whose cooperation U.S. forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a new RAND study prop...

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In 2008, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq's most violent areas. The resulting data on demographics, employment, income and standards of living, education, health, housing and public infrastructure, the ef...

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This volume tested conventional wisdom about how insurgencies end against the evidence from 89 insurgencies. It compares a quantitative and qualitative analysis of insurgency case studies with lessons from insurgency and counterinsurgency literatu...

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In May-June 2009, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq1s most violent areas. The resulting data on security and the effects of war, public infrastructure, demographics, employment, income and standards of liv...

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What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, n...

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Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the ...

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The perceived shortage of cybersecurity professionals working on national security may endanger the nation's networks and be a disadvantage in cyberspace conflict. RAND examined the cybersecurity labor market, especially in regard to national defe...

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RAND was asked to evaluate whether the Programming Computation on Encrypted Data program--which expands the knowledge base of the global cryptographic community--is likely to provide more benefits to the United States than it does to its global ri...

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Criminal activities in cyberspace are increasingly facilitated by black markets. This report characterizes these markets and describes how they have evolved, to provide insight into how their existence can harm the information security environment.

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This report, the second in a series, reveals insights from chief information security officers; examines network defense measures and attacker-created countermeasures; and explores software vulnerabilities and inherent weaknesses.

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Examines the portfolio of tools funded by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor that help support Internet freedom and assesses the impact of these tools in promoting U.S. interests without enabling criminal activity.

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This report explains the menu of actions for defending an organization against cyberattack and recommends an approach for organizing the range of actions and evaluating cybersecurity defensive activities.

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A reevaluation of conflict thresholds in the context of complex cyber, conventional, and nuclear war The return of great power competition has renewed concerns about managing escalation, lest a minor crisis inadvertently spiral into nuclear war. T...

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A reevaluation of conflict thresholds in the context of complex cyber, conventional, and nuclear war The return of great power competition has renewed concerns about managing escalation, lest a minor crisis inadvertently spiral into nuclear war. T...

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