Swarming has occurred throughout military history, and the lessons of this past experience may offer insights into a possible future application of swarming. This monograph analyzes ten swarming cases ...

A description of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System (PPBS), a management tool to provide a better analytical basis for decisionmaking and for putting such decisions into operation. A PPBS is ...

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 ...

China’s two decades of rapid economic growth have fueled a demand for energy that has outstripped domestic sources of supply. China became a net oil importer in 1993, and the country’s dependence on ...

No abstract is available for this document. Ford, L. R., Network Flow Theory. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1956. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P923.html ...

Amid renewed Russian belligerence and a pattern of nuclear threats, and against the backdrop of transatlantic burden-shifting between the United States and European NATO Allies, the UK and France—as ...

Advances in technology can bring about dramatic changes in military operations, often termed revolutions in military affairs or RMAs. Such technology-driven changes in military operations are not ...

Nearly all K–12 public school teachers in the United States provide supports for students' mental health and well-being, but many say the work has become more difficult, adding to the emotional ...

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 ...

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.

The UK has made progress toward a whole-system approach to drug policy, but unclear accountability and persistent stigma are stalling reform.

A basic text in differential-difference and functional-differential equations used by mathematicians and physicists in attacking problems involving the description and prediction of the behavior of ...