Rand project air force (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Light shelf wear.

Paperback. Condizione: VG Plus. 1st. 885 pages. Well indexed - has a few technical illustrations in b/w. No markings, slightest of cover wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Nine chapters on the subject from RAND. Fine used condition.

Condizione: As New. No interior or exterior marks. AS NEW condition.

Paperback. Condizione: UsedVeryGood. Paperback; light fading, light shelf wear to the cover; remainder mark to l ower page edges; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Fine used condition.

Paperback. Condizione: UsedVeryGood. Softcover, with software; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; other wise in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Paperback. Condizione: UsedVeryGood. Paperback; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; remainder mark to lo wer page edges; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. light shelfwear. 195 p.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xviii, 193, [1] pages. Footnotes. Acronyms. Appendix. Bibliography. Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth assumed a position at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in July 2011 after a 37-year career as at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, he served in the Office of National Estimates at the CIA. Prior to that, he worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for Defense Analyses. Dr. Lambeth has flown or flown in more than 40 different types of military aircraft with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and with eight foreign air forces. He became the first U.S. citizen to fly the Soviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner invited to fly a combat aircraft inside Soviet airspace since the end of WWII. He is the author of The Transformation of American Air Power, which won the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award in 2001. He also wrote Mastering the Ultimate High Ground: Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space and many other works. Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force's involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission's creation and the conceptual and organizational roadblocks that have impeded a more rapid growth of U.S. military space capability; and enumerates the challenges facing the Air Force with respect to space. Pete Soriano (Cover Design) (illustratore).…

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. Presumed First edition/first printing. xxviii, 193, [3] pages. Tables. Figures. References. Originally known as Project RAND, Project Air Force (PAF) was established in 1946 by General H. H. "Hap" Arnold as a way of retaining for the United States Air Force (USAF) the considerable benefits of civilian scientific thinking that had been demonstrated during World War II. Since its founding, PAF has remained the only Air Force federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)) concerned entirely with studies and analyses rather than systems engineering or scientific laboratories. The special FFRDC status facilitates stable USAF support over an extended period of years as well as in-the-family access by the research staff to relevant Air Force information and management personnel. Current United States Air Force (USAF) plans are to retain aircraft fleets for unprecedentedly long service lives, which may be as long as 80 years. The safety, aircraft availability, and cost implications of that fleet-retention policy are unknown. This study is part of Project AIR FORCE's Aging Aircraft Project to improve the Air Force's ability to foresee those implications and identify actions that will mitigate or avoid some of the more severe consequences, Using data from past RAND and industry reports and from various Air Force instructions and maintenance databases, and a regression analysis, it measures how the USAF aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance and modification workloads and material consumption. It provides the foundation for future estimates of the effects of those activities on maintenance-resource requirements, aircraft availability, and annual operating cost. Maintenance workloads and material consumption generally exhibited late-life growth as aircraft aged, but the rate of that growth depended on both the aircraft's flyaway cost and the workload category. For example, long-term, late-life growth was found in all base- and depot-level maintenance workloads and material-consumption categories, except phased and/or isochronal inspections, per-flying-hour contractor logistics support, and depot modification workloads. Barbara Angell Caslon (Cover Design) (illustratore).…

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Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. xiv, 107, [1] pages. Footnotes. Annotated Bibliography. References. Cover has some wear and soiling, Front cover fore-edge curls a bit. Since its inception six decades ago, the RAND Corporation has been one of the key institutional homes for the study of deterrence. This book examines much of this research for lessons relevant to the current and future strategic environment. It is therefore part intellectual history and part policy recommendation, intended to encourage debate and discussion on how deterrence can best be incorporated into U.S. strategy. Austin Long joined CNSP as Senior Fellow on July 1, 2025. Dr. Long was previously appointed to the Senior Executive Service in October 2022. As DD StS, Dr. Long was responsible for the formulation of Joint Staff positions and recommendations regarding strategy, plans and policy for strategic deterrence, space, cyberspace, electromagnetic spectrum operations, information operations, nuclear, missile defense, countering weapons of mass destruction, subsea and seabed warfare, arms control, and other international negotiations. He was previously Vice Deputy Director for Strategic Stability. Prior to joining the Joint Staff, Dr. Long was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He was an analyst and adviser to the U.S. military in Iraq (2007-2008) and Afghanistan (2011 and 2013). In 2014-2015, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security, serving in the Joint Staff J5. The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and conducted within RAND Project AIR FORCE and the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community. This publication is part of the RAND monograph series. RAND monographs were products of RAND from 2003 to 2011 that presented major research findings that addressed the challenges facing the public and private sectors. All RAND monographs were subjected to rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Project Rand R-375-PR. Original printed wrappers. About FINE.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Large paperback in very good condition. Signed by author. R-482-PR. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 9"x6", 201pp. Original RAND corp document November 1954 R-264. Stiff wrappers, perfect bound. Very nice copy, scarce in this format.