Considers potential Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses. For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation. This report examines the constraints, facilitators, and potential options for Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses (particularly in light of whether Taiwan moves toward or away from formal independence).

Analyzes the costs and benefits of updating the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9-CM) codes for diagnoses and procedures to their ICD-10 equivalents. Presents RAND's analysis of the benefits and costs of mandating a switch (either simultaneously or sequentially) from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, codes for diagnoses and procedures to two code sets based on the 10th revision. The author concludes that that switching to both ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is likely to generate more benefits than costs and that the switch, if it takes place, should be simultaneous.

This title addresses the new challenges for defense policy in a world transformed by the end of the Cold War and the n the war on terrorism, and sketches new analytic techniques for framing particular defense issues.