The Victims of Terrorism An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector, by Bruce Hoffman, Anna-Britt Kasupski (66 pages, PDF): “Little attention and analysis have focused on terrorism victims, including survivors. This report focuses on the organized groups of families and friends that have emerged since September 11, 2001, to become a powerful voice in U.S. counterterrorist policy and legislation. These groups were remarkably successful in getting the 9/11 Commission established as well as the enactment of the commissions most important recommendations. This report documents these groups number and diversity, their wide disparity in mission and services, in addition to the effectiveness of their strategies for achieving their missions. It also compares the 9/11 victims groups to those formed in response to previous terrorist attacks both in the United States and abroad, highlighting the lessons the 9/11 groups learned from these precedents and the differences between 9/11 groups and those that preceded them.”
RAND Project AIR FORCE Annual Report 2007 (61 pages, PDF): “For 60 years, RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) has offered an integrated program of objective, independent analysis on issues of enduring concern to Air Force leaders. Current research focuses on strategy and doctrine; aerospace force development; manpower, personnel, and training; and resource management. This report offers highlights from PAFs fiscal year 20062007 efforts, which addressed such key issues as the role of building partner capacity in a successful counterinsurgency strategy, identifying ways to reduce U.S. exposure to potential space attacks, assessing the right number and mix of fighter pilots, mitigating the effects of a potential Chinese antiaccess strategy in the western Pacific, making the system of air and space operations centers more flexible and efficient, learning lessons from Iraqs weak resistance to the Coalition invasion, and examining the Air Forces investment in test and evaluation infrastructure.”
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