Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Paul K Davis
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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present
From the ancient Egyptian battle at Megiddo in 1469 BC to the recent military actions in Iraq, great battles have had an enormous impact on the shaping of history. Now, in this …
RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT)
This report is a reference manual and user's guide for RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT), a spreadsheet-based software application for facilitating decisions dealing with …
Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy
Philosophy and Christianity make truth claims about many of the same things. They both claim to provide answers to the deep questions of life. But how are they related to one …
Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and Its Modeling
Modeling and simulation, if well rooted in social-behavioral (SB) science, can inform planning about some of the most vexing national problems of our day. Unfortunately, the …
New Challenges for Defense Planning
This book contains 23 papers describing RAND studies of defense planning issues for the post-Cold War era.
A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning
After the 1996 Presidential election, the Department of Defense (DoD) will probably conduct a major review of national military strategy and the current basis of force planning, …
Enhancing Strategic Planning with Massive Scenario Generation
This title extends research on model-based exploratory analysis for strategic planning with massive scenario generation (MSG), a technique that combines virtues of human-intensive …
Effects of Terrain, Maneuver Tactics, and C41sr on the Effectiveness of Long Range Precision Fires
Situational and tactical factors, which are usually treated only in complex models, strongly influence the effectiveness of long-range precision weapons in interdicting a moving …
The Human Tradition in the New South
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development …
Developing Resource-informed Strategic Assessments and Recommendations
A debate will likely occur in 2009 about U.S. global national-security strategy. The authors describe and illustrate a methodology to help frame and evaluate resource-informed …
Analysis of Strategy and Strategies of Analysis
In a fluid global security environment such as ours, assessing the costs, risks, and likely consequences of alternative national defense strategies is as hard as it is essential. …
Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity
Defense analysis can improve support of policymakers dealing with multiple objectives and deep uncertainties. Doing so will involve both seeing through the fog with simple analysis …