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When asked how RAND could fulfill the demands of both the US Air Force and the US Army despite the rivalry between both these corps of the armed forces, James Quinlivan, a RAND researcher since the 1970s, answers with a hint of a smile, “simply by not achieving it. Sometimes, I must say that our work resembles advocacy more than research.”1
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Max Weber, Economie et société: T.2 (Paris: Pocket, 2003), p. 220.
See Sabine Saurugger, “L’expertise : un mode de participation des groupes d’intérêt au processus décisionnel communautaire,” Revue Française de Science Politique, 52 (4), August 2002, p. 375.
Jeremy Shapiro, “The Price of Success” in Zalmay Khalilzad and Jeremy Shapiro, Strategic Appraisal: Aerospace Power in The 21st Century (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2001), p. 1.
See on this point the report commissioned by Congress: Thomas Keaney and Eliot Cohen (eds.), Gulf War Air Power Survey (GWAPS) Summary Report (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1993).
Caroline Ziemke, “Foreword” in Earl Tilford, Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why (Maxwell: Air University Press, 1991), p. ix.
Project Air Force, Annual Report 2007 (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2007), p. 1.
Christopher Bowie, David Ochmanek, Fred Frostic, Kevin Lewis, John Lund, and Philip Propper, The New Calculus: Analyzing Airpower’s Changing Role in Joint Theater Campaigns (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1993), p. 2.
Carl Builder, The Icarus Syndrome: Air Power Theory and the Evolution of the Air Force (Santa Monica: RAND Research Brief, October 1993), p. 2.
Alan Vick, David Orletsky, Abram Shulsky, and John Stillion, Preparing the U.S. Air Force for Military Operations Other Than War (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1997), p. iii.
More precisely, this is an expression coined by American author William Gibson. See William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace Publishers, 1986).
Martin Libicki, Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Strategy (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1999), p. x.
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Swarming and the Future of Conflict (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2000), pp. vii–viii.
Sean Edwards, Swarming on the Battlefield: Past, Present and Future (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2000).
Thomas Kuhn, La Structure des révolutions scientifiques (Paris: Flammarion, 1983), p. 132.
Roger Molander, Andrew Riddile, and Peter Wilson, Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1996).
Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus (Paris: Minuit, 1984), p. 91.
Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell Schwartz, and Peter Sickle, Building Moderate Muslim Networks (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2007).
Austin Long, On “Other War”: Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counter-insurgency Research (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2006), p. 2.
David Galula, Pacification in Algeria, 1956–1958 (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2006).
Alan Vick, Adam Grissom, William Rosenau, Beth Grill, and Karl Mueller, Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era: The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2006).
Benjamin Lambeth, Air Power against Terror: America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2005), pp. xxviii–xxix.
Paul Bremer, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), p. 10.
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Samaan, JL. (2012). The Work of Legitimizing Political Agendas. In: The RAND Corporation (1989–2009). The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137057358_5
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