#ThinkTank

Organizations (6)

• CRESS An Army-funded social science research organization at American University that ran from 1956 through the 1960s under the name SORO before being reorganized as CRESS following the Project Camelot scandal, maintaining two analytical divisions focused on counterinsurgency intelligence and area handbooks.
• Human Resources Research Institute A US Air Force-affiliated behavioral science research organization at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, that conducted classified psychological vulnerability studies of Communist China beginning in 1951, producing analyses of Chinese newspaper letter columns and family revolution dynamics intended to support propaganda targeting.
• HumRRO A nonprofit research organization founded in 1951 that served as the US Army's primary contractor for behavioral science research, conducting classified studies on training, leadership, counterinsurgency, and psychological vulnerability before separating from George Washington University in 1969.
• ORO-RAC A pair of successive Army-linked research organizations at Johns Hopkins University and then McLean, Virginia, that conducted early Cold War studies on fighter selection, unit cohesion, and guerrilla psychology before the university severed the relationship and the work continued under an independent nonprofit.
• Rand Corporation The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history.
• USARIBSS The US Army's primary in-house behavioral and social science research organization, which operated under a series of names from its origins as the US Army Personnel Research Office through its consolidation as the Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences in 1974.