Underkill : scalable capabilities for military operations amid populations / / David C. Gompert ... [et al.].

• Author: United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gompert, David C.; United States. Dept. of Defense.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Monograph / Rand Corporation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Notes: "MG-848-OSD."; "Sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense."; "National Defense Research Institute."

The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them can harm and alienate the very people whose cooperation U.S. forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a new RAND study proposes a "continuum of force"-a suite of capa...