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Border management hinges on the tension between the need to prevent undesirable people and goods from crossing borders and the economic vitality gained through trade and travel. Building on lessons learned from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, and Morocco, this Perspective proposes opportunities to strengthen security while simultaneously improving the flow of licit travelers and goods through national policies and programs.

Security cooperation is an important mission of the U.S. Air Force. This report reviews two core Air Force decisionmaking processes — the strategy, planning, and programming process and the concept development and acquisition process — to determine the extent to which decisionmakers consider security cooperation impact and to recommend ways to make such considerations systematic and explicit.

Supporting Tunisia as it builds its counterterrorism institutions and preventing the flow of foreign fighters across its borders remain core objectives of U.S. assistance programs. This report offers recommendations that could improve Tunisia's border management capabilities at ground, sea, and air ports and crossings, with the goal of addressing security concerns while improving the licit flow of people and commerce.

To help the Air Force prepare for future insurgency challenges, RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) studied counterinsurgency principles, explored options for a U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, and assessed current and potential Air Force contributions to such a strategy.