Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

“Masters and Commanders” Gives Insight on Obama and McChrystal Andrew Roberts’ magnificent study of command relationships in World War II, Masters and Commanders, should be required reading for anyone responsible for the care and feeding of great minds and enormous egos. It is the story of two great political [Read More...]
CNO To The Navy: The Shipwreck Is Coming What can you say to a military service that is faced with a shrinking force structure, increased demand for its services, growing threats and declining budgets? How about get ready for a train wreck; or in the case of the [Read More...]
Could OMB Eliminate Private Sector Support To The Federal Government? One of the Obama Administration’s most significant policy initiatives has been to reduce the role of private contractors in providing support to the federal government. The administration is concerned that private contractors were performing jobs that should be done only [Read More...]
Private Contractors Still Vital To Operations In Iraq And Afghanistan Private contractors now constitute a “fifth” service along side the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Like the uniformed military, some fight and even die supporting the nation’s missions in those two countries. The latest survey from CENTCOM reports [Read More...]
Is Jointness Hurting Military Innovation? The military services seem to be losing their intellectual way. Their responses to challenges, whether budgetary, technological, strategic or operational appear to be to do more of the same. They all rely on the mantra that the security environment is [Read More...]
New DoD Transportation Program Demonstrates Value Of Performance Based Logistics Performance Based Logistics (PBL) is getting a bad rap in Pentagon and Congressional circles. PBL is an approach to acquiring services and support based on the totality of the requirements rather than just price. PBL bundles the activities associated with [Read More...]
The U.S. Military Needs Foreign Military Sales As U.S. defense spending begins to decline the Obama Administration needs to give greater attention to foreign military sales of U.S. weapons systems. Foreign military sales help the U.S. balance of payments and retains high paying, mostly union jobs. In [Read More...]
Police Trainers In Afghanistan At Risk The Obama Administration’s strategy for success in Afghanistan depends heavily on the Coalition’s ability to create a large and effective Afghan National Police (ANP) force. After years of well-documented failure and nearly $7 billion, the U.S. State Department was removed [Read More...]
Can We Halt The Military Decline Of The West? In the wake of his announcement that the United States will be reducing its defense expenditures and force structure over the next five years, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates went to Europe to plead with the NATO countries not to [Read More...]
Gates Plan To Save Money Likely To Come Up Short Faced with essentially flat defense budgets, increasing personnel costs and the need to recapitalize an aging force structure, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has a plan to save $100 billion over five years. Two-thirds of the savings are supposed to [Read More...]
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