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Molly Dunigan is a political scientist at the Rand Corporation and author of Victory for Hire: Pr...

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This book examines how private security contractors or analogous historical forces affect democra...

An assessment of the maritime component of a series of historical and ongoing operations reveals ...

Building on a 2010 RAND study of the 30 insurgencies begun and completed between 1978 and 2008, t...

This comprehensive review of the U.S. Department of Defense operational contract support (OCS) pl...

'U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spending on private-sector services has increased steadily over...

The authors assess the utility and limitations of 'minimalist stabilization'--small-scale interve...

This book examines how private security contractors or analogous historical forces affect democra...

This report describes the requirements that generate the need for deployable civilians, the types...