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Are U.S. military interventions contagious over time? : intervention timing and its implication for force planning /

Current DoD force planning processes assume that U.S. military interventions are serially independent over time. This report challenges this assumption, arguing that interventions occur in temporally dependent clusters in which the likelihood of an intervention depends on interventions in the recent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Current DoD force planning processes assume that U.S. military interventions are serially independent over time. This report challenges this assumption, arguing that interventions occur in temporally dependent clusters in which the likelihood of an intervention depends on interventions in the recent past. Integrating the concept of temporal dependence into DoD planning processes could help planners develop more appropriate force estimates.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780833079039
0833079034
9780833079053
0833079050
9780833079046
0833079042