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US Navy Fleet Deployment Policy 1775 to 1996

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This historical report examines how the U.S. Navy has deployed its fleet 1775-1996, part of a study CNA performed for Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet.

Evolution of US Navy Roles in NATO

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This paper, written in 2004, was catalyzed by a series of conferences held in Europe in the early twenty-first century that analyzed international naval policies and history.

US Navy Confronts Unified Command Plan

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This report, written in 1999, is an analytical history of the relationship between the Navy and the commands designated in the Unified Command Plan (UCP). It was part of a larger project sponsored by the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy, and Operations (N3/5).

Piracy and the US Navy

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This paper, drafted in 2006, summarizes US Navy counterpiracy activities since the 18th century. It covers three general eras: the era of privateering (18th and 19th centuries), the era of Western imperialism (19th and 20th centuries), and the era of terrorism (20th and 21st centuries).

Russian Military Strategy: Core Tenets and Operational Concepts

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Russia’s military strategy of “active defense” blends defensive and offensive constructs and seeks to answer perceived forms of undeclared warfare.

Estimated Effects of Facility Quality SROTC Recruitment Retention

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This paper summarizes the research that CNA performed to understand how Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC) facility conditions may disproportionately affect SROTC recruitment and retention at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).

Optimizing Total Force Management

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Manpower management (MM) is the term for the set of processes by which the services and other DOD components define and fund—for each operational unit, command staff, and shore/support organization—the numbers and types of job positions that these activities need to perform their missions. Execution of these MM processes across DOD is governed by a combination of the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) and service-specific instructions, directives, and policies. In addition to providing methods and policy for determining the number and types of position, they provide guidance for determining the most appropriate labor source (active military, reserve military, civilians, or contracted services) to fill each position. This study examines the MM processes currently used within each DOD component to determine how they integrate DOD’s workforce mix policy and guidance and to identify impediments that prevent or supersede adherence to this guidance.

Law Enforcement Officer Safety

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This brief provides an accessible resource for law enforcement agencies, line officers, and their stakeholders (e.g., policy-makers, training instructors) to inform the development of targeted training, policies, and practices to promote officer safety while in the line of duty.

How to Think about Innovation

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Navy senior leadership's recent effort to address innovation in the fleet continues a long tradition of naval innovation, and especially among dedicated innovation organizations. What type of innovation does the Navy want? We provide a rough framework to categorize innovation and provide other considerations that can affect how an organization should organize for innovation.

Russian Forces in the Western Military District

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From 2013 to 2019, Russia extensively reformed its powerful Western Military District forces. Konrad Muzyka provides an updated order of battle assessment.