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Task Development Guide for Humanitarian and Peace Operations
March 1, 1998
This handbook presents the Humanitarian and Peace Operations (HPOs) Planning Guide, a tool developed by the Center for Naval Analysis to help operational commanders identify essential tasks in HPOs. The Planning Guide provides practical guidance for identifying essential task -both specified and implied - during crisis action planning and mission execution. The handbook comprises four parts: an introduction of the conceptual basis and practical application of the Planning Guide; a discussion of the key Planning Guide elements and associated issues; a summary of four real-world operations on which this Guide is based; and contact information for key HPO players.
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Coast Guard Future Directions Study: Capstone Support Analysis
May 1, 1997
This analysis is intended to support Coast Guard development of a capstone publication that articulates a vision of the Coast Guard of 2020. We present our supporting analysis in the following three sections. In section 2, we describe our view of the purpose and enduring characteristics of the Coast Guard, a sea-going armed service within the Department of Transportation. We believe that any vision of the Coast Guard's future must be consistent with its purpose and enduring characteristics. In section 3, we describe how existing Coast Guard missions will be transformed as the Coast Guard moves into the 21st century. In section 4, we describe alternative plans for the Coast Guard to consider in developing its vision. See also CAB 96-96, CIM 499, and CRM 97-17.
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Initial Assessment of the Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility To Support Operational Test and Evaluation Facility To Support Operational Test and Evaluation: Paper and Presentation Slides for International T&E Workshop--
November 1, 1996
This paper briefly describes the Navy's Operational Test and Evaluation Force's (OPTEVFOR's) assessment regarding the suitability of selected laboratories at the Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility (ACETEF) to support the operational test and evaluation of electronic warfare systems - Radar Warning Receivers (RWR) and, in particular, the Navy's next-generation RWR, the AN/ALR-67(V)3.
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Naval Cooperation after Korean Unification
May 1, 1996
The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) held a workshop in Washington, DC, from December 4 to 6, 1995, to examine the prospects for U.S. - Korean naval relations in the year 2010. For purposes of analysis, the participants assumed the possibility of Korean unification over the next ten to 15 years. The purpose of the workshop was to investigate potential threats in the region in 2010, identify the naval missions these threats imply, identify non-threat-related missions, and project the capabilities required to perform those missions.
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Basing and Other Constraints on Land-Based Aviation Contribution to U.S. Contingency Operations
March 1, 1995

Amid the debate over roles and missions in recent years, claims of land-based airpower's capacity to match the contributions of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers have been a prominent theme. As part of that argument, some land-based aviation advocates have argued that basing and other constraints have little relevance to the debate--that basing constraints have not prevented land-based airpower from contributing to U.S. military operations. This argument masks a far more complicated history of U.S. access to facilities and airspace in the midst of international incidents and crises. Land-based airpower has contributed, in some manner, to every significant U.S. military operation since World War II. But basing constraints have often made this contribution more difficult or, more important, have seriously limited the capabilities that land-based airpower could bring to contingency operations. In light of the potential confusion about this issue, this paper examines the history of limitations on land-based aviation activities during U.S. contingency operations.

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Prospects for U.S.-Korean Naval Relations in the 21st Century
February 1, 1995
In October 1994, the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) and the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) cosponsored a workshop in Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK), to examine the prospects for United States -- Korean naval relations over the next ten to 15 years. Navy and Marine Corps specialists, Asia defense analysts, and scholars of Korea attended the meeting, as did government representatives from both countries. The purpose of the conference was a candid exchange of views on the potential significance and nature of naval cooperation between the two countries from the present to the early decades of the 21st century.
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The Japan-U.S. Alliance and Security Regimes in East Asia A Workshop Report
January 1, 1995
A workshop, The Japan-U.S. Alliance and Security Regimes in East Asia, was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 26 to 29 July 1994, under the cosponsorship of the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS) in Tokyo and the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Alexandria, Virginia. Security specialists and academicians from Japan and the United States participated in the workshop, along with government observers from both nations. The objective was candid discussion regarding the continued viability of the Japan -- U.S. alliance in the post-Cold War era and the future role and impact of emerging East Asian multilateral security mechanisms and proposals. Participants examined issues affecting the future of the Japan -- U.S. bilateral security relationship in conjunction with the current trend toward multilateralism, its motivating and driving forces, and its implications for Japan, the United States, and East Asia in general.
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