Washington Post front page. Introduced private-sector branding and audience segmentation to military strategic communications. Foundational reference for a generation of military IO professionals.

This RAND report examines al-Hol and Roj camps in northeastern Syria, where ideologically mixed populations face radicalization risks from poor conditions, weak security, and external ISIS connections, and recommends legal-status processes, resourced judicial systems, repatriation pathways for vulnerable adolescents, an international donor fund, and greater integration with targeted isolation of the most radicalized residents.

This RAND Perspective draws on lessons from commercial marketing influencer strategies to identify recommendations for empowering ISIS opponents on Twitter.

This RAND study draws on extensive documentary material and interviews with American, British, and Australian military and civilian personnel from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom to identify tools that help militaries conduct urban combat and post-conflict restoration more effectively, on the premise that preserving innocent life and rebuilding what war destroys are now strategic obligations because cities are the keys to nations.

This monograph examines the barriers to the broad dissemination of such works, with a focus on Arabic literature, and suggests ways in which nongovernmental organizations, international allies, and the U.S. government can assist Arab writers and artists in overcoming these barriers.

In this report with over 120 academic citations, the authors provide an overview of combat stress reaction (CSR) in the form of a review of its known precipitants, its battlefield treatment, and the preventive steps commanders can take to limit its extent and severity. In addition, the authors use historical battlefield reports to assess the risk urban operations pose to CSR.