Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Could British Defense Reforms Be Model For DoD? The slow erosion of British military power, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, is an important lesson for national leaders in this country. Once a mighty empire with fleets deployed in many oceans and an Army on which [Read More...]
Small UAVs Like Scan Eagle Carry A Tremendous Workload Most of the public reporting on the military’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) focuses on the big birds. The size of some airplanes, UAVs such as the Predator and Global Hawk can travel long distances, stay in the air [Read More...]
Insourcing Hurts Small Businesses Too Most of the discussion of the problems associated with the Pentagon’s campaign to take work away from the private sector and give it to government employees and facilities, what is termed insourcing, has focused on the impacts on large corporations. [Read More...]
Libyan Operation Demonstrates U.S.-Europe Capabilities Gap One of the eye-opening features of the three month old NATO air campaign in Libya is the hollowness of the world’s premier military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Let’s be honest, this is not a major conventional war [Read More...]
House Appropriators Mistaken On Prompt Global Strike How could the Commander in Chief respond today offensively to a long-range threat from a ballistic missile to the U.S. homeland, overseas forces or the territory of a key ally? National missile defense and the planned deployments of theater missile [Read More...]
The Private Sector Is Not The Pentagon’s Enemy The relationship between the private defense industrial base and the Department of Defense can be as close as a long-standing marriage and as difficult as a war zone. Senior defense officials like to say over and over again that the [Read More...]
Iranian Tests Underscore Value Of Obama Missile Defense Plan Even as the U.S. begins to reduce its involvement in Afghanistan, the potential source of future conflicts in the region, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is moving aggressively to expand its political and military power. Teheran is reported to be [Read More...]
China’s Aircraft Carrier Is A Highly Vulnerable Extravagance It has been more than twenty years since the U.S. Navy had a major naval vessel as a target in the event of war. In the 1970s and 1980s the Soviet Navy produced a series of major surface combatants to [Read More...]
Role For Contractors May Grow As Afghan Pullout Begins With President Obama’s announcement of the beginning of a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, attention naturally turned to the troops coming out, those remaining and how they will fare in the difficult months and years ahead. What continues to pass almost [Read More...]
Libyan Operation Continues To Make Case For STOVL F-35 The ongoing NATO air campaign in Libya is providing two interrelated lessons for the future of the Alliance as a military instrument. The first is you play with what you pay for. Or in the case of NATO it might [Read More...]