Changes in employment stability, family structure, and economic pressures have created challenges...

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

As the largest provider of government civilians to support U.S. military operations, the Army sta...

Deployed contractors may be exposed to the same stressors as military personnel. A RAND survey ex...

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...

Concerned about U.S. Department of Defense contracts for private-sector services, Congress mandat...

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...

This report reviews and analyzes assessments of the practices that U.S. federal agencies use to r...

This report identifies emerging policy lessons regarding the use of, and reforms to, the U.S. Arm...

This research presents the results of a review and analysis of DoD civilian deployment, assesses ...

This companion volume to Paths to Victory: Lessons from Modern Insurgencies offers in-depth case ...

The authors identify unmet needs for transitioning reserve component members, assess the Transiti...

This report supports the U.S. Army's effort to rethink its roles and responsibilities to meet the...

'In Syria, Ukraine, several African countries, and other conflict hotspots around the globe, priv...

The authors develop a definition of and model for measuring civilian workforce readiness to infor...

The authors combined quantitative and qualitative modes of analysis to better understand and anti...

The U.S. Army revised operations within its Caisson Detachment following two horse deaths in 2022...