Background The Very High Speed Transit or “VHST” concept was put forward some years ago in response to the search for a pollution-free transport method that could operate at speeds competitive with aircraft. The general principles are ...
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The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society. A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency, 2009
Background With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. national agenda, whether the country’s prevention efforts match the threat it faces continues to be central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United ...
A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets, September 1983 RAND Study
Background As part of its continuing research on subnational conflict, The Rand Corporation has compiled a number of chronologies of terrorist and related criminal activity. A reflection of increased concern that terrorists will turn their ...
RAND: Have We Reached the End of History?
Document excerpt: “In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of ...
