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mercredi 21 mars 2007

RAPPORTS PUBLICS SUR LA DEFENSE

Source Bibliotheque Rapports publics

Haut comité d'évaluation de la condition militaire - 1er rapport
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/074000116/index.shtml?xtor=EPR-526


Rapport d'information […] sur le démantèlement des navires de guerre
LAMOUR Marguerite
Assemblée nationale. Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/074000117/index.shtml?xtor=EPR-526


Rapport d'information […] sur les armes à sous-munitions
PLANCADE Jean-Pierre, GARRIAUD-MAYLAM Joëlle
Sénat. Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces
armées
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/074000020/index.shtml?xtor=EPR-526

jeudi 15 mars 2007

BEST SELLERS DE LA RAND CORPORATION

The books listed below are RAND's top-ten, best sellers during January 2007. You can find these and other RAND publications in bookstores; they may also be ordered through RAND. Also see RAND Book Reviews.
1.
Cover: Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era
Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era: The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions
United States has engaged in counterinsurgency around the globe for more than a century. But insurgencies have rarely been defeated by outside powers. Rather, the afflicted nation itself must win the war politically and militarily, and the best way to help is to offer advice, training, and equipment. Air power, and the U.S. Air Force, can play an important role in such efforts, which suggests making them an institutional priority.

2.
Cover: America's Role in Nation-Building
America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq
In Iraq, the United States is facing its most challenging nation-building project since the 1940s. The authors draw lessons from seven case studies—Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan—then apply these to the Iraq case. The results suggest that nation-building will be difficult but possible. Success will, however, require investing sufficient financial, military, and political resources—and time.


3.
Cover: Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 1
Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 1, The Global Jihadist Movement
Examines al-Qaeda’s evolution and the emergence of the broader global jihadist movement-groups affiliated, associated, or inspired by al-Qaeda-and the threat that they pose to the United States and U.S. allies and interests. The authors conclude by setting out a four-pronged strategy to counter the jihadist threat.


4.
Cover: Learning Large Lessons
Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post-Cold War Era
The relative roles of U.S. ground and air power in warfighting have shifted since the end of the Cold War. To assess this shift (i.e., between the Army and Air Force, respectively), the author of this report analyzed post–Cold War conflicts in Iraq (1991), Bosnia (1995), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001), and Iraq (2003).


5.
Cover: Early Childhood Interventions
Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise
Considers the potential consequences of not investing additional resources in children's lives, the range of early intervention programs, the demonstrated benefits of interventions having high-quality evaluations, the features associated with successful programs, and the returns to society associated with investing early in the lives of disadvantaged children. The findings indicate the existence of a body of sound research that can guide resource allocation decisions.


6.
Cover: The UN's Role in Nation-Building
The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq
Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy.


7.
Cover: Helping a Palestinian State Succeed
Helping a Palestinian State Succeed
A summary of two RAND studies on options for facilitating successful Palestinian development, MG-146-DCR and MG-327-GG. The former examines options for strengthening governance, security, economic development, access to water, health and health care, and education. The latter examines options for addressing housing, transportation, and related infrastructure needs. Both studies estimate the financing needed for successful development.


8.
Cover: New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking
New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War—and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. This book outlines the dimensions of that transformation and sketches new tools for dealing with the policy challenges—from modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.


9.
Cover: Evolutionary Acquisition
Evolutionary Acquisition: Implementation Challenges for Defense Space Programs
This monograph presents findings of a RAND Project AIR FORCE research project documenting lessons learned by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and other Department of Defense (DoD) cost analysis and acquisition community members from the implementation of evolutionary acquisition (EA) strategies for major Air Force defense space acquisition programs. In May 2003, DoD mandated EA strategies relying on spiral development as the preferred approach to satisfying operational needs.


10.
Cover: A New Direction for China's Defense Industry
A New Direction for China's Defense Industry
As part of a larger RAND Project AIR FORCE study on Chinese military modernization, this document analyzes the individual strengths and weaknesses of four specific defense-industrial sectors—missile, aircraft, shipbuilding, and information technology—to explain variations in performance among those sectors, with a focus on differences in institutional arrangements, incentives, and exposure to market forces, and to evaluate the prospects for China's defense industry and its ability to contribute to military modernization.

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