Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Will The Next SecDef Keep Gates’ Promises? In seeking to change the way the Department of Defense works, Secretary Robert Gates has had to make a lot of promises to a lot of people. To the President he promised to provide the Administration the credibility on national [Read More...]
The U.S. Navy Needs To Rediscover Offensive Mine Warfare At one time, the United States Navy had an offensive sea mine warfare capability and it was pretty good. During World War Two, U.S. offensive mine warfare made a major contribution to the defeat of Japan. Delivered by aircraft, surface [Read More...]
Army Cancellation of GCV Competition Highlights Service’s Confusion The Army has decided to cancel its request for proposals (RFP) for a new armored combat system, the ground combat vehicle (GCV). This is a stunning development given that GCV is the Army’s sole new major vehicle program and that [Read More...]
The Beginning Of The End For The Marine Corps? The official mission of the Marine Corps as established in the National Security Act of 1947 is to be trained, organized and equipped for offensive amphibious employment. This means doing Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Inchon. The Marine Corps [Read More...]
Competing With China It is time the United States developed a long-term strategy for the inevitable military competition with China. Competition does not mean conflict. It means a struggle with China for power, influence, security and for the United States, access to East [Read More...]
Is The Air Force Preparing To Seize Private Property? For more than two years now the Obama Administration has been seeking to redefine the role of private sector support of the Federal government. It has done so under various guises: the claim that inherently governmental work was being performed [Read More...]
Apres Robert Gates, le Deluge The only absolute rule we observe at the Lexington Institute is not to observe the rules we make. Hence, despite the earlier posting that we were taking a break from blogging for the week, events dictate a change in plans. [Read More...]
Army Lacks A Complete Plan For Armored Fleet Very shortly, the Army will announce the winners of initial contracts to build its new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). The GCV program was the Secretary of Defense’s consolation prize to the Army when he cancelled the manned ground vehicle portion [Read More...]
C-17 Production Halt Means The End Of The Aircraft Industry In California America came of age and the U.S. aircraft industry became a recognized force to contend with when Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927. The Spiritwas based on the Ryan M-2 mail [Read More...]
Gates Efficiency Push Faces Insurmountable Obstacles This week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a series of decisions intended to begin the process of reining in the explosion of overhead costs in the Department of Defense. Among other decisions, Gates said that he was taking the [Read More...]
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