The Rand Corporation is a U.S. think-tank that was founded in 1948, at the outset of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, initially by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation, with the goal of providing “Research & Development” (R-and-D) advice to the U.S. Air Force, which was just then being created as an armed service independent of the U.S. … Continue reading Rand’s latest Ukraine assessment assessed
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