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"The difficult and continually evolving operations in Iraq and Afghanistan show the complexities of what is now termed irregular warfare and highlight the need for new approaches to the security challenges with which the United States is now contending and will likely confront in the future. The research reported in this monograph focused on answering a rather straightforward, but thus far largely unanswered, question: What can the U.S. military learn from other militaries about how better to prepare for full-spectrum operations and deployments? To this end, RAND was asked by the OSD for Personnel and Readiness to examine the militaries of China, France, the UK, India, and Israel."--P. xiii.

Military planning. --- Operational readiness (Military science). --- Soldiers -- Training of. --- Military planning --- Operational readiness (Military science) --- Soldiers --- Military & Naval Science --- Military Science - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Training of --- Training of. --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Combat readiness (Military science) --- Readiness, Operational (Military science) --- War planning --- Armed Forces --- Military readiness --- Military administration --- Military policy --- Planning

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U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that improving U.S. capacity for stabilization and reconstruction operations is critical to national security. The authors recommend building civilian rather than military capacity, realigning and reforming existing agencies, and funding promising programs. They also suggest improvements to deployable police capacity, crisis-management processes, and guidance and funding.

Integrated operations (Military science). --- Integrated operations (Military science) --- Military Administration --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Civic action. --- Stability operations. --- Civil functions. --- Combined integrated operations (Military science) --- Multinational integrated operations (Military science) --- Stabilization operations --- POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION--USA --- USA--ARMED FORCES--STABILITY OPERATIONS --- Civil-military relations --- Military art and science

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There could be no better homage to recently deceased sociologist Charles C. Moskos than dedicating to him this selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an up-to-date view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete. Just to cite two aspects of this change, one can point first of all to how the presented studies move beyond the very concept of globalization, after which the conference had been named. It in fact emerged with clarity that the new dimensions of the context in which militaries and military policy must move are those of a constant, diffuse interaction of the 'local' and the 'global', so-called globalization. A second aspect, in the international area, is the shift towards a multipolar global order with the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Latin America, Japan and India all manoeuvring for position, a shift that has significant consequences on military action as well.

Sociology, Military. --- Women soldiers. --- Moskos, Charles C. --- Women as soldiers --- Women in the military --- Military sociology --- Soldiers --- Armed Forces --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- Social Science --- Political Science --- History --- Cultural studies. --- Communication studies. --- Military history. --- Peace. --- General. --- Military --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- Naval history

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"This book identifies the critical factors that shaped and influenced New Zealand's defence acquisition decision-making processes from the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and the subsequent ANZUS crisis, through to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the following 'war on terror'. It explores and analyses decision-making processes in relation to the ANZAC frigates, the military sealift ship HMNZS Charles Upham, the F-16 strike aircraft, the P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft upgrade, and the LAV IIIs."--Publisher's description.

Defense contracts --- Military supplies --- Government purchasing --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Armies --- Military supplies. --- New Zealand. --- Procurement. --- New Zealand --- Armed Forces --- Government procurement --- Procurement, Government --- Public procurement --- Public purchasing --- Army supplies --- Instruments of war --- Military equipment --- Munitions --- Ordnance (Military supplies) --- Subsistence stores --- Supplies, Military --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Supplies and stores --- New Zealand Defence Force --- NZ Defence Force --- NZDF --- Nya Zeeland --- Aotearoa --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nowa Zelandia --- Nouvelle-Zélande --- Nu Ziland --- Niu-hsi-lan --- Novzelando --- Nyū Jīrando --- Neu-Seeland --- Nieu-Seeland --- Новая Зеландыя --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ --- Novi Zeland --- Нова Зеландия --- Nova Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nova Zelanda --- Nový Zéland --- Neuseeland --- Seland Newydd --- Uus-Meremaa --- Νέα Ζηλανδία --- Nea Zēlandia --- Nueva Zelanda --- Nueva Zelandia --- Nov-Zelando --- Zeelanda Berria --- Nýsæland --- Nýja-Sjáland --- Nuova Zelanda --- ניו זילנד --- Nyu Ziland --- N.Z. (New Zealand) --- NZ --- ニュージーランド --- Nyūjīrando --- Purchasing --- Logistics --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government --- N.Z.D.F.