Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Memo To Secretary Carter: The Electronics Industry Is Not Comparable To The Defense Industry On June 28, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Dr. Ashton Carter held a convocation for defense industry leaders. The subject was restoring affordability and productivity in defense acquisition. The Under Secretary began by telling his [Read More...]
Army Concepts Gets it Mostly Right The U.S. Army has been working very hard to reinvent itself. It has published a new Capstone concept that defines the future security environment and broadly what it demands of the Army in the way of capabilities. It has a [Read More...]
When You Care Enough To Send The Very Best (To CENTCOM) Secretary Robert Gates is now two for two in his selection of outstanding military officers to manage America’s current wars. First there was the selection of General David Petraeus to replace the media-challenged General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan. Now, the [Read More...]
The Persian Gulf And The Future Of The U.S. Navy If there is a war at sea in the near future, it will likely be in the Persian Gulf. It is the nexus of the geo-strategic, ideological and religious struggle between Iran on one side and the United States, the [Read More...]
A Tectonic Shift In The Strategic Landscape Is Underway While the U.S. Government and the national security community worry about the outcomes of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing the reset button with Russia and dealing with the threat of proliferation, they are all but oblivious to [Read More...]
Can The Case Be Made For Naval Power? For more than six decades, the U.S. Navy has kept America safe, guarded our overseas interests, reassured allies, patrolled the global commons and assisted the victims of manmade and natural disasters. Under the rubric of forward deployed credible combat power, [Read More...]
The U.S. Is Unprepared For A Nuclear Iran The United States has a long history of being caught by surprise when other countries demonstrate their mastery of advanced military technologies, particularly nuclear weapons. The list of strategic surprises is remarkably long: the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb test in [Read More...]
Stalinism Comes To DoD Contracting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came to Silicon Valley in an effort to bring the world of modern technology and economics to his country. If he wanted to take a trip back in time and see what it might have been [Read More...]
U.S. Needs Plan To Sustain South Korea’s Military Capabilities One little noticed decision reached at the G-20 Summit was to postpone the transfer of wartime command of allied forces on the Korean Peninsula, originally scheduled for April 2012, until 2015. According to President Obama, “This gives us appropriate time [Read More...]
Will Theater Missile Defenses Upset The U.S.-Russian “Reset?” The Obama Administration has made much of its efforts to “push the reset” button with respect to the U.S.-Russian relationship. There is a new START agreement providing for modest reductions in the two countries’ strategic arsenals. Washington has gotten Russian [Read More...]
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