books by David C. Gompert     books:       Making Liberia Safe: Transformation of the National Security Sector David C. Gompert RAND Corporation, 2007 Liberia's new government has made security sector transformation a high priority. The authors analyze Liberia1s complex security environment, set forth an integrated security concept to guide the formation and use of those forces and assemble a complete security structure. They develop specific force-structure options, discuss the cost-effectiveness of each, and suggest immediate steps toward implementation of the new security structure.             Byting BackRegaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents: RAND Counterinsurgency ... Martin C. Libicki, David C. Gompert, ... RAND Corporation, 2007 U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government and an armed opposition movement, the key to exploiting information power is to connect with and learn from the population itself, increasing the ...             Creating a NATO special operations force. : An article from: Defense Horizons David C. Gompert, Raymond C. Smith Thomson Gale, 2006 This digital document is an article from Defense Horizons, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6351 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Creating a NATO special operations force. Author: ...             Battle-Wise: Seeking Time-Information Superiority in Networked Warfare David C. Gompert, Irving Lachow, ... National Defense University, 2006 The unstoppable spread of information networking and know-how gives rise to the need for a new edge?one that utilizes but transcends networks?by developing people, teams, and decisionmaking methods that convert information into better choices and outcomes. The authors call this new edge ?battle-wisdom.?             China on the Move: A Frano-american Analysis of Emerging Chinese Strategic Policies And Their Con-sequences ... RAND Corporation, 2005 The product of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri, this volume presents transatlantic views of Chinese foreign policy and national security goals. It offers a common path for engaging China as a rising power. The product of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri, this volume represents a transatlantic view of Chinese national strategy and capabilities and offers a ...             War by Other Means--Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency: RAND Counterinsurgency ... David C. Gompert RAND Corporation, 2008 Examines how the United States should improve its counterinsurgency (COIN) capabilities through, for example, much greater focus on understanding jihadist strategy, using civil measures to strengthen the local government, and enabling local forces to conduct COIN operations. Provides a broad discussion of the investments, organizational changes, and multilateral arrangements that the United States should pursue to improve its COIN capabilities.             Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs1 review David C. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler, ... DIANE Publishing Company, 1999 A Warning, and the Cost of Unheeded Prescriptions There are times when working closely together in one crisis arena builds bonds that provide an essential glue for sticking closely together in another. In this case, the crisis is the growing gap in revolutionary military capabilities between the United States and its NATO allies as described in 1999 by David Gompert, Richard Kugler and Martin Libicki. And, I argue, had the prescriptions for ...             Heads We WinThe Cognitive Side of Counterinsurgency (COIN): RAND Counterinsurgency StudyPaper 1 David C. Gompert RAND Corporation, 2007 Current U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has relied heavily on the use of force against Islamist insurgents-a tactic that has increased their ranks. What is needed instead are stronger cognitive capabilities that will enable more effective COIN against an elusive, decentralized, and highly motivated insurgency-capabilities that will enable the United States to ?fight smarter.? Cognitive COIN goes beyond information technology and ...             Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age David C. Gompert Diane Pub Co, 1998 McNair Paper No. 59. Examines the relationship of intentions and capabilities in the information age, using China as a case in point. Hypothesizes that although power remains important in world politics, globalization has transformed its character, correlates, and consequences: Power now depends on freedom.             Heads We Win: The Cognitive Side of Counterinsurgency (COIN) (Rand Counterinsurgency Study) David C. Gompert RAND Corporation, 2007 450-character abstract: Current U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is in need of stronger cognitive capabilities that will enable the United States to fight smarter. These include comprehension, reasoning, and decisionmaking, the components that are most effective against an enemy that is quick to adapt, transform, and regenerate. This paper offers concrete ideas for gaining the cognitive advantage in anticipating and countering the new global ...             Lee's mistake: learning from the decision to order Pickett's Charge.: An article from: Defense Horizons David C. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler Thomson Gale, 2006 This digital document is an article from Defense Horizons, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 9393 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Lee's mistake: learning from the decision to order ...             Shoulder to Shoulder: The Road to U.S.-European Military Cooperability-A German American Analysis RAND Corporation, 2003 Notes the increasing gap in the abilitiy of the U.S. and European militaries to operate efectively with each other, and examines ways to address the challenge.             Making Liberia Safe David C./ Oliker, Olga/ Stearns, Brooke/ Crane, Keith/ Riley, K. Jack Gompert Natl Book Network, 2007             Custer and cognition.(RECALL)(George Armstrong Custer): An article from: Joint Force Quarterly David C. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler Thomson Gale, 2006 This digital document is an article from Joint Force Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5112 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Custer and cognition.(RECALL)(George Armstrong ...              search for books 21st-century, armstrong, backregaining, battle-wise, building, capabilities, cognition, cognitive, con-sequences, cooperability, cooperability-a, counterinsurgency, frano-american, information, insurgents, learning, networked, operations, policies, promoting, quarterly, revolution, sequences, strategic, studypaper, studyvolume, superiority, time-information, transatlantic, transformation books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Durabrite Ultra Ink Black for Stylus CX5000,CX5000v,CX6000 & CX7000F we recommend A Warning, and the Cost of Unheeded Prescriptions leave a comment home  impressum - about us