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Commentary

Jun 10, 2025

Disbanding the PKK: Political Engagement as the Key to Ending Insurgencies

The recent decision by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disarm and disband offers vital lessons for countries facing insurgencies. Turkey's mixed approach highlights the importance of comprehensive strategies to foster sustainable peace and encourage armed groups to transition into political participation.
Jul 5, 2023

RAND Review: July-August 2023

Features explore ways to address the opioid crisis with a whole-systems approach and how truth decay — the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life — is putting U.S. national security at risk.
Research

Jun 21, 2023

Terrorism, Dynamic Commitment Problems, and Military Conflict

Why do states initiate costly wars when the risk posed by terrorism appears marginal? We present two explanations and empirical evidence.
Research

May 16, 2023

Countering Violent Nonstate Actor Financing: Revenue Sources, Financing Strategies, and Tools of Disruption

Disrupting the financing that violent nonstate actors require is critical for degrading such groups. This report examines the methods used to disrupt this financing and how the Army can contribute to the effort.
Research

Oct 17, 2022

Operation Inherent Resolve: U.S. Ground Force Contributions

This report, which outlines four battles within Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and reviews U.S. ground force contributions to those battles, is intended to address gaps both in analysis and in the common understanding of OIR.
Research

Jun 6, 2022

Understanding and Reducing the Ability of Violent Nonstate Actors to Adapt to Change

This report summarizes research into how violent nonstate actors adapt to changes in their operational environments and provides recommendations on how the Army might anticipate such adaptations and mitigate them before they occur.
Commentary

Apr 6, 2022

Could Insurgency Offer Ukraine a Decisive Edge?

While insurgency rarely offers a path to early victory, a campaign of popular resistance that supports the continuing conventional battle could give overmatched Ukraine an edge in its fight against Russian occupiers.
Commentary

Mar 30, 2022

The Art of Sitting on Bayonets

Russian President Vladimir Putin might have assumed that once conquered, Ukraine would be easy to hold. But there has been no lightning success, no defecting Ukrainian soldiers. If he can't find collaborators, Putin's chances of achieving even reduced ambitions in Ukraine may be dim indeed.
Research

Feb 11, 2022

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

The authors of this report examine the period in Colombia from 2000 to 2020 to assess the effectiveness of U.S. counternarcotics and security efforts: eradication of coca, interdiction of cocaine, security and rule of law, and development.
Research

Nov 30, 2021

Building Military Coalitions: Lessons from U.S. Experience

This report describes factors that seem to be associated with U.S. decisions to use coalitions for military interventions, factors that drive partner states to join such coalitions, and factors that shape the success of military coalitions.
Oct 7, 2021

Select RAND Research on Counterinsurgency, Stability Operations, Support to Foreign Internal Defense, Nation-Building, and Special Operations: 1962-2019

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.
Oct 6, 2021

What RAND Research Says About Counterinsurgency, Stabilization, and Nation-Building

RAND has conducted an extensive body of work on what is sometimes characterized as the other war, that is, those conflicts that have mostly engaged the United States over the past 70 years. These "other wars" have acquired multiple descriptive labels to include low intensity conflict, irregular warfare, special warfare, counterinsurgency (COIN), counterterrorism, peace enforcement, and hybrid warfare. These conflicts have often led to peacekeeping, stabilization and reconstruction activities, also characterized as nation-building.

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Disbanding the PKK: Political Engagement as the Key to Ending Insurgencies

RAND Review: July-August 2023

Terrorism, Dynamic Commitment Problems, and Military Conflict

Countering Violent Nonstate Actor Financing: Revenue Sources, Financing Strategies, and Tools of Disruption

Operation Inherent Resolve: U.S. Ground Force Contributions

Understanding and Reducing the Ability of Violent Nonstate Actors to Adapt to Change

Could Insurgency Offer Ukraine a Decisive Edge?

The Art of Sitting on Bayonets

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

Building Military Coalitions: Lessons from U.S. Experience

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Disbanding the PKK: Political Engagement as the Key to Ending Insurgencies

RAND Review: July-August 2023

Terrorism, Dynamic Commitment Problems, and Military Conflict

Countering Violent Nonstate Actor Financing: Revenue Sources, Financing Strategies, and Tools of Disruption

Operation Inherent Resolve: U.S. Ground Force Contributions

Understanding and Reducing the Ability of Violent Nonstate Actors to Adapt to Change

Could Insurgency Offer Ukraine a Decisive Edge?

The Art of Sitting on Bayonets

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

Building Military Coalitions: Lessons from U.S. Experience

Select RAND Research on Counterinsurgency, Stability Operations, Support to Foreign Internal Defense, Nation-Building, and Special Operations: 1962-2019

What RAND Research Says About Counterinsurgency, Stabilization, and Nation-Building

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