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Title

  • Analysis to inform defense planning despite austerity

Summary

  • Defense analysis can do a better job supporting policymakers dealing with multiple objectives and deep uncertainties. This will involve seeing through the fog with simple analysis and undergirding results with depth as necessary. It will emphasize balancing across objectives and hedging against both uncertainty and disagreement among policymakers. Modern methods for doing so are available but they require displacing some familiar processes and demanding more from analysis. Once decisions are made, analysis should help policymakers explain, convince, and shape implementation guidance with sharpened requirements, forcing functions, and metrics for monitoring, feedback, and adaptation.

Names

  • Davis, Paul K., 1943- author
  • National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
  • Rand Corporation

Created / Published

  • Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]
  • ©2014

Contents

  • Preface -- Summary -- A setting of great national security challenges -- Analysis to aid decisionmaking -- Concrete suggestions for analysis -- Creating capability models -- Finding suitable options -- Integrating with portfolio analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Bibliography.

Headings

  • -  Military planning--United States
  • -  Military planning--Evaluation
  • -  Decision making--Evaluation
  • -  Military planning--Mathematical models

Notes

  • -  "RR-482-OSD"--Cover page 4.
  • -  "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
  • -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171).
  • -  "The research described in this report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center by OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community."
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xxv, 171 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • U153

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024738968

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Davis, Paul K., Author, U.S National Defense Research Institute, and Rand Corporation. Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, ©, 2014] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024738968/.

APA citation style:

Davis, P. K., National Defense Research Institute, U. S. & Rand Corporation. (2014) Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024738968/.

MLA citation style:

Davis, Paul K., Author, U.S National Defense Research Institute, and Rand Corporation. Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, ©, 2014] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024738968/>.