Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
The F-35 Is A Success Story That Keeps Getting Better (From The National Interest) Press reports on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) have tended to downplay how much progress the program has made on multiple fronts, including on lowering those costs and the contribution that the JSF is already making to U.S. national [Read More...]
Pentagon’s Flawed Approach To Homeland Missile Defense Puts Nation At Risk (From RealClearDefense) There are reports that Pyongyang may be restarting its nuclear weapons program, and Kim Jong-un has promised some kind of ballistic missile Christmas surprise. Iran likewise continues to develop its long-range ballistic missile capabilities. Yet, this is the time the [Read More...]
Will Commandant Berger’s Planning Guidance Mean The End Of The Marine Corps? (From RealClearDefense) In his Commandant’s Planning Guidance, Marine Corps General David Berger proposes the most radical redesign of the Marine Corps in more than half a century. According to the new Commandant, “the Marine Corps is not organized, trained, equipped, or postured [Read More...]
Russia Could Create Problems In This Important Eastern European Country (From The National Interest) For almost two decades, Russia has been interfering in the domestic politics of other nations. It is not just the big countries such as Ukraine or NATO members like the Baltic States, Hungary or Romania that are under pressure from [Read More...]
President Trump Should Offer To Sell M-1 Tanks To Poland (From RealClearDefense) When Poland joined the NATO alliance in 1999, its military was saddled with rapidly obsolescing platforms and equipment largely of Soviet design. In response to the Russian seizure of Crimea and its massive military buildup, Warsaw initiated a major modernization [Read More...]
The FTC’s Suit Against Qualcomm Is A Serious Threat To National Security (From RealClearDefense) The competition to be the first to invent the next global wireless standard, known as 5G, is of extraordinary importance not just to the U.S. economy, but to national security. Today, the United States is in a head-to-head race with [Read More...]
Navy Must Work To Secure Its Platforms, Networks And Installations From Cyber Attack (From RealClearDefense) The threat to the U.S. Navy from cyber intrusion has become a crisis. Hackers, particularly those from Russia and China, are not limiting themselves to attacks on computers and networks. Now they are engaged in a massive assault on the [Read More...]
Why The Precision Strike Missile Is A Must Have For The Army (From RealClearDefense) The U.S. Army’s number one modernization priority is Long-Range Precision Fires (LRPF). Arguably, the most important program being pursued under the LRPF umbrella is the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). This missile will replace the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). It [Read More...]
How Russia Conducts ‘Lawfare:’ The Case of Interpol (From RealClearDefense) Russia has sought to use many of the processes, traditions and norms of the current international system as part of its hybrid warfare arsenal, not only in the pursuit of its national interests but to undermine that global order. An [Read More...]
DoD Leaders’ Modernization Plans Will Require Rethinking How It Partners With Industry The Department of Defense (DoD) is on a mission to transform the way it acquires advanced military capabilities. Each of the Military Services has stood up a special organization expressly for the purpose of shortening the cycle time associated with [Read More...]