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Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2021 |
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This volume is an important resource for anyone who is interested in gaining an informed understanding of operations in the information environment. Large quantities of information are created and collected on a daily basis worldwide. As the information environment rapidly expands and evolves, we are challenged not only to exploit the power of information but also to manage unprecedented risks to individuals, institutions, and our nation. For several decades after its inception in 1948, the RAND Corporation made many foundational contributions to the evolution of the Information Age, including contributions to digital computing, information security, and the internet. Over the past two decades, RAND has focused its research on aspects of the information environment that relate to national security. Readers will gain familiarity with insights on what strategies and practices would be the most effective across a dynamic information environment. Keeping abreast of the most advanced thinking is important in this policy area because it remains highly dynamic, with many unsettled questions and contested issues. RAND Arroyo Center initiated a series of volumes that synthesizes decades of RAND Corporation research and analysis on topics that represent perennial and evolving challenges to our nation's security. Each of the analyses was conducted at the request of a senior leader, uniformed or civilian, who faced a major decision and required high-quality, objective research to help inform it. Each analysis was designed to be not only rigorous and reliable but also responsive, relevant, and immediately useful. This is the last of the four volumes.
Author | : Michael Schwille |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781977407597 |
"Early-career officers in tactical units must understand and operate in an increasingly complex information environment. Poor communication with command-level decisionmakers and errors in judgment can be costly in the face of sophisticated adversary capabilities and while operating among civilian populations. There are few opportunities for formal education and training to help officers prepare for operations in the information environment (OIE), and it can be difficult to know how to employ the tactics, techniques, and procedures of tactical-level maneuver-focused operations in support of OIE-related capabilities and activities. With its quick-reference format and series of illustrative vignettes, this handbook is intended to facilitate tactical problem-solving and increase officers' awareness of when and how they can contribute to the goals of OIE."--Back cover.
Author | : Eric Victor Larson |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780833044044 |
The authors aim to assist the U.S. Army in understanding "influence operations," capabilities that may allow the United States to effectively influence the attitudes and behavior of particular foreign audiences while minimizing or avoiding combat. The book identifies approaches, methodologies, and tools that may be useful in planning, executing, and assessing influence operations.
Author | : Eric Victor Larson |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0833046918 |
Documents a study whose goals were to develop an understanding of commanders' information requirements for cultural and other "soft" factors in order to improve the effectiveness of combined arms operations, and to develop practical ways for commanders to integrate information and influence operations activities into combined arms planning/assessment in order to increase the usefulness to ground commanders of such operations.
Author | : Mai Elliott |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2010-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0833049151 |
This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies that RAND produced on these topics to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times and conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved.
Author | : Isaac Porche |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0833078860 |
"In the U.S. Army as elsewhere, transmission of digitized packets on Internet-protocol and space-based networks is rapidly supplanting the use of old technology (e.g., dedicated analog channels) when it comes to information sharing and media broadcasting. As the Army moves forward with these changes, it will be important to identify the implications and potential boundaries of cyberspace operations. An examination of network operations, information operations, and the more focused areas of electronic warfare, signals intelligence, electromagnetic spectrum operations, public affairs, and psychological operations in the U.S. military found significant overlap that could inform the development of future Army doctrine in these areas. In clarifying the prevailing boundaries between these areas of interest, it is possible to predict the progression of these boundaries in the near future. The investigation also entailed developing new definitions that better capture this overlap for such concepts as information warfare. This is important because the Army is now studying ways to apply its cyber power and is reconsidering doctrinally defined areas that are integral to operations in cyberspace. It will also be critical for the Army to approach information operations with a plan to organize and, if possible, consolidate its operations in two realms: the psychological, which is focused on message content and people, and the technological, which is focused on content delivery and machines."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Michael J. Mazarr |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Artificial intelligence |
ISBN | : 9781977402721 |
The evolution of advanced information environments is rapidly creating a new category of possible cyberaggression, which RAND researchers are calling virtual societal warfare in an analysis of the characteristics and future of this growing threat.
Author | : Jamison Jo Medby |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2002-10-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0833033751 |
Intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB), the Army's traditional methodology for finding and analyzing relevant information for its operations, is not effective for tackling the operational and intelligence challenges of urban operations. The authors suggest new ways to categorize the complex terrain, infrastructure, and populations of urban environments and incorporate this information into Army planning and decisionmaking processes.
Author | : Walter L. Perry |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004-04-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0833036165 |
Assessing how technology contributes to information superiority and decision dominance a major challenge, in part because it demands quantitative measures for what are usually considered qualitative concepts. The authors have developed a mathematical framework to aid these efforts. Additional work, such as data fitting, experimentation, linking decisions and actions, historical analysis, and gaming will further advance knowledge in this area.
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2021 |
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This volume is an important resource for those interested in gaining an informed understanding of a persistent, though usually low-level, military threat to U.S. security. Although such conflicts do not require the United States to deploy large numbers of forces at any given time, they often last for many years or decades. Moreover, they have proven difficult to prosecute and conclude in ways that serve our nation's interests and meet its objectives. Since the 1960s, the RAND Corporation has conducted research and analyses on such small wars and the nation-building activities that typically occur in their aftermath. Some studies have focused on specific conflicts, while others have examined broad trends. This volume surveys the best examples from this ongoing research that are cleared for public release and synthesizes their collective results. Readers of this volume should not only learn what is known about which strategies and practices are likely to succeed in small wars but also develop realistic, evidence-based expectations about outcomes. RAND Arroyo Center initiated a series of volumes that synthesizes decades of RAND Corporation research and analysis on topics that represent perennial and evolving challenges to our nation's security. Each of the analyses was conducted at the request of a senior leader, uniformed or civilian, who faced a major decision and required high-quality, objective research to help inform it. As a result, each analysis was designed to be not only rigorous and reliable but also responsive, relevant, and immediately useful. This is the second of the four volumes.