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Concern in United States military and policymaking circles about
civilian casualties and collateral damage in military operations
appears to have increased since the end of the Cold War. In part,
this concern appears to be based on the belief that press and
public reaction to civilian casualties reduces public support and
constrains military operations. to determine whether these
incidents affect media reporting or public support for military
operations, and if so, how. After reviewing the major literature on
American public opinion and war, the authors examine case studies
of U.S. and foreign press, public, and leadership responses to
civilian deaths during four recent conflicts: Operation Desert
Storm (Iraq, 1991), Operation Allied Force (Kosovo, 1999),
Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan, 2001), and Operation Iraqi
Freedom (Iraq, 2003). has realistic expectations about avoiding
casualties. Second, the press reports heavily on civilian casualty
incidents. Third, adversaries understand and seek to exploit the
public's sensitivities to civilian deaths. Fourth, other factors
have been more important determinants of American's support and
opposition during armed conflict than civilian casualties, while
for foreign publics it may be among the most important factors.
Fifth, while sizeable majorities of the American public gives U.S.
military and political leaders the benefit of the doubt when
civilian casualty incidents occur, this does not necessarily extend
to foreign audiences. Sixth, when civilian casualty incidents
occur, it may be more important to get the story right than to get
the story out. abroad have increased in recent years and may
continue to do so, perhaps becoming an even more salient concern in
the conduct of future military operations.
One-liner: Examines four major models of compensation and how they
apply to the military's system of incentives and its goals of
transformation. 450-character abstract: The military must ensure
that its compensation system provides flexibility in managing
personnel, induces innovatory activities and well-calculated
risk-taking, and provides incentives for performance, retention,
and skill acquisition. This report analyzes four models of
compensation-promotion tournaments, deferred compensation,
pay-for-performance mechanisms, and nonmonetary rewards-in the
context of military transformation efforts.
Technical appendixes for a study that describes American public
opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global
war on terrorism. This document supplies the technical appendixes
for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use
of military force in support of the global war on terrorism (GWOT),
delineates the sources of support and opposition, and identifies
potential fault lines in support.
Have South Korean attitudes toward the United States deteriorated?
To answer this question, RAND researchers compiled and analyzed
South Korean public opinion data from the past decade. Have South
Korean attitudes toward the United States deteriorated? To answer
this question, RAND researchers compiled and analyzed public
opinion data on those attitudes and examined selected periods in
U.S.-South Korean relations to identify the sources of anti-U.S.
sentiment. They found evidence of a downturn in favorable sentiment
toward the U.S. but also of a more recent recovery. They recommend
ways to improve South KoreansO perceptions of the U.S. and address
their long-standing grievances.
Describes American public opinion toward wars and other large
military operations over the last decade. The support of the
American public is widely held to be a critical prerequisite for
undertaking military action abroad. This monograph describes
American public opinion toward wars and other large military
operations over the last decade, to delineate the sources of
support and opposition for each war or operation, to identify the
principal fault lines in support, and to illuminate those factors
that are consistent predictors of support for and opposition to
military operations.
Today, American service personnel are deploying at rates not seen
since the Vietnam War. Such deployments and activations have raised
concerns about their effect on the local economies. The authors of
this report use econometric models to analyze the impact of
activations and deployments on economic conditions, as measured by
changes in employment at the county level.
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