Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Wikileaks Reveal Greater Need For Missile Defenses The latest round of State Department cables released by Wikileaks have hardly been surprising to anyone who follows foreign affairs. North Korea is a crazy state that everyone in the region wishes would collapse. Iran is the problem that dominates [Read More...]
The U.S. Needs a New Approach to North Korea North Korea’s unprovoked shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island, following less than a year after the sinking of that country’s frigate Cheonan, is a surprise but not an unexpected one. These seeming random acts of violence are an integral part [Read More...]
The World Can Get Along Without The United States – Right? Just when you thought it was okay for the United States to slash its defense budget and withdraw from its international security commitments, reality rears its ugly head. North Korea, that paragon of stability and reasonableness, launches a surprise artillery [Read More...]
The Aircraft Carrier Is The Most Flexible Tool In The U.S. Defense Arsenal There is no more strategically agile, operationally responsive and tactically flexible platform in the U.S. arsenal than the aircraft carrier. Properly supported as part of a carrier strike group (CSG) and sustained by the world’s best aerial and sea-based logistics [Read More...]
Sale Of Fighter To China Undermines Gates Decision On F-22 Defense publications are reporting that Russia is considering selling its newest fighter, the SU-35, to China. The SU-35 has enhanced radar, improved avionics, better flight surfaces, a more powerful engine and larger fuel tanks. Aviation experts characterize the SU-35 as [Read More...]
SBINet Is The Best Option Homeland Security Has To Secure The Southern Border With drug-related violence in Mexico reaching unprecedented levels and continuing high concerns about illegal immigration into this country, now is not the time for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel the program to provide state-of-the art surveillance capabilities [Read More...]
Empowering Partners: A Strategy For Helping Allies Share The Security Burden Research Study Today, the United States has the opportunity to create a new, more flexible, collaborative approach to the organization, management and support of friends and allies. The Obama Administration has put forth the idea of building partnership capacity in [Read More...]
Before We Cut Weapons Programs, Let’s Understand What America’s Role In The World Will Be The calls for cutting defense spending are reaching a fevered pitch in Washington. An unlikely concatenation of individuals and groups from libertarian Congressman Ron Paul and his Tea Party-backed son, Senator-elect Rand Paul, to hard left Representative Barney Frank and [Read More...]
Civil-Military Relations On The Brink What is it that President George W. Bush’s memoirs and Bob Woodward’s book on decisonmaking in the Obama Administration on Afghanistan have in common? It is the extent to which both administrations confronted a “revolt of the generals.” Whether it [Read More...]
Pentagon’s Claim Of Cost Savings From Insourcing Continues To Erode One way that the Department of Defense (DoD) is attempting to reduce the costs of overhead and support activities is by bringing into the government work done by private contractors. Over the past two years, the military services have repeatedly [Read More...]
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