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Podcast
Jun 12, 2025
Duration 52:18
Research
Jun 18, 2024
Most relevant regions
Jul 8, 2025
Duration 26:25
RAND’s Kristen Gunness breaks down U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific. She discusses Washington's efforts to increase U.S. basing and access in the region, what actions might trigger a response from China, and the possibility that Beijing could impose a quarantine of Taiwan.
RAND's Dahlia Goldfeld and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga consider how the United States could win a potential conflict with China without triggering nuclear escalation.
Tool
May 29, 2025
This scenario document is a companion to the previously published rulebook for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame. The scenario is intended as a resource for anyone considering administering an Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame.
May 22, 2025
Current conflicts offer insights into how future wars might be fought. This report describes eight novel or notable observations about the Russia-Ukraine war and summarizes their relevance to hypothetical U.S.-involved wars with near-peer opponents.
Nov 15, 2024
This report summarizes a series of reports on how U.S. joint long-range strike could better balance operational effectiveness, force survivability, and escalation management to achieve its objectives without triggering catastrophic escalation.
This report is the second of a four-volume study that examines the risk of a military conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan escalating to Chinese nuclear first use, providing background and context for the broader study.
As part of a series of reports, the authors consider the potential thresholds and drivers of Chinese nuclear first use in a conflict scenario in the context of China's evolving nuclear force posture.
In this report—part of a larger study of prospective nuclear escalation risks in a U.S.-China military conflict—the authors explore potential escalation pathways that involve U.S. long-range strike and end with Chinese nuclear first use.
Commentary
Aug 16, 2024
Russia's military recruiting efforts generally include offering higher wages and benefits, tightly managing public engagement and perceptions of the war to suppress bad news, and increasing military–patriotic education in schools to target the next generation of recruits.
Jul 16, 2024
In this report, the author presents an evaluation of the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from February 2022 to August 2023 on Russian military manpower and the potential future impacts to recruiting and retention.
The authors explore historical patterns of alliance behavior, military-to-military engagements, and three scenarios that illustrate the potential for future Sino-Russian cooperation.
Expert Insights
Jun 4, 2024
This Perspective defines, evaluates, and derives key requirements for defense programs from the concept of integrated deterrence, which was introduced in the 2022 National Defense Strategy.
