RAND Reports

Influencing Adversary States: Quelling Perfect Storms. Paul K. Davis, Angela O’Mahony, Christian Curriden, and Jonathan Lamb. 2021. LINK

Chasing Multinational Interoperability: Values, Objectives, and Strategies. Christopher G. Pernin, Angela O’Mahony, Gene Germanovich, and Matthew Lane. 2020. LINK

A Complex Systems Agenda for Teaching and Conducting Policy Studies. Paul K. Davis, Tim McDonald, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Angela O’Mahony and Osonde A. Osoba. 2020. LINK

Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and its Modeling. Paul K. Davis, Angela O’Mahony, Timothy R. Gulden, Osonde A. Osoba. Katharine Sieck. 2018. LINK

Assessing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Army Security Cooperation: A Framework for Implementation. Angela O’Mahony, Ilana Blum, Gabriela Armenta, Nicholas Burger, Joshua Mendelsohn, Michael J. McNerney, Steven W. Popper, Jefferson P. Marquis, Thomas S. Szayna. 2018. LINK

Pacific Engagement: Forging Tighter Connections between Tactical Security Cooperation Activities and U.S. Strategic Goals in the Asia-Pacific. Stephen Watts, Christopher M. Schnaubelt, Sean Mann, Angela O’Mahony, and Michael Schwille. 2018. LINK

U.S. Presence and the Incidence of Conflict. Angela O’Mahony, Miranda Priebe, Bryan Frederick, Jennifer Kavanagh, Matthew Lane, Trevor Johnston, Thomas S. Szayna, Jakub Hlavka, Stephen Watts, and Matthew Povlock. 2018. LINK

What are the Trends in Armed Conflicts, and What do They Mean for U.S. Defense Policy? Thomas S. Szayna, Stephen Watts, Angela O’Mahony, Bryan Frederick, and Jennifer Kavanagh. 2017. LINK

The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Ground Interventions: Identifying Trends, Characteristics, and Signposts. Jennifer Kavanagh, Bryan Frederick, Matthew Povlock, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Angela O’Mahony, Stephen Watts, Nathan Chandler, John Speed Meyers, Eugeniu Han. 2017. LINK

Supporting Persistent and Networked Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operations: Insights from Forward-Deployed SOF Personnel. Derek Eaton, Angela O’Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna and William Welser IV. 2017. LINK

A More Peaceful World? Regional Conflict Trends and U.S. Defense Planning. Stephen Watts, Bryan Frederick, Jennifer Kavanagh, Angela O’Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Matthew Lane, Alexander Stephenson, Colin P. Clarke. 2017. LINK

Conflict Trends and Conflict Drivers: An Empirical Assessment of Historical Conflict Patterns and Future Conflict Projections. Thomas S. Szayna, Angela O’Mahony, Jennifer Kavanagh, Stephen Watts, Bryan A. Frederick, Tova C. Norlen, Phoenix Voorhies. 2017. LINK

Understanding Conflict Trends: A Review of the Social Science Literature on the Causes of Conflict. Stephen Watts, Jennifer Kavanagh, Bryan Frederick, Tova C. Norlen, Angela O’Mahony, Phoenix Voorhies, Thomas S. Szayna. 2017. LINK

Global Landpower Network: Recommendations for Deepening Army Engagement. Angela O’Mahony, Christopher G. Pernin, Laurinda L. Rohn, Derek Eaton, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Joshua Mendelsohn, Thomas S. Szayna, Osonde A. Osoba, Sherry Oehler, Katharina Ley Best, Leila Bighash. 2016. LINK

Assessing the Value of Regionally Aligned Forces in the Army Security Cooperation: An Overview. Angela O’Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Michael J. McNerney, Derek Eaton, Joel Vernetti, Michael Schwille, Stephanie Pezard, Tim Oliver, Paul S. Steinberg. 2016. LINK

Considerations for Integrating Women into Closed Occupations in the U.S. Special Operations Forces. Thomas S. Szayna, Eric V. Larson, Angela O’Mahony, Sean Robson, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Miriam Matthews, J. Michael Polich, Lynsay Ayer, Derek Eaton, William Marcellino, Lisa Miyashiro, Marek Posard, James Syme, Zev Winkelman, Cameron Wright, Megan Zander-Cotugno, William Welser, IV. 2016. LINK

Defense Institution Building in Africa. Michael J. McNerney, Stuart E. Johnson, Stephanie Pezard, David Stebbins, Renanah Miles, Angela O’Mahony, Chaoling Feng, Tim Oliver. 2016. LINK

National Security Implications of Virtual Currency. Joshua Baron, Angela O’Mahony, David Manheim, Cynthia Dion-Schwarz. 2015. LINK

SOF Partner Assessment: Introduction to Country Characteristics. Angela O’Mahony, William Welser, IV, Thomas S. Szayna. 2014. LINK

Assessing Security Cooperation as a Preventive Tool. Michael McNerney, Angela O’Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Derek Eaton, Caroline Baxter, Colin Clarke, Emma Davies, Michael McGee, Heather Peterson, Leslie Payne, and Colin Trenkov-Wermuth, 2014. LINK

A Computational Model of Public Support for Insurgency and Terrorism: a Prototype for More-General Social-Science Modeling. Paul K. Davis and Angela O’Mahony. 2013. LINK

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