Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Is The Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle At Risk? The U.S. Army can’t seem to catch a break. Its new Chief of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, was barely in the job a month before President Obama nominated him to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Retired [Read More...]
Gates’ Shangri-La Speech Foreshadows Results Of Comprehensive Review If the outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates can be said to have a major vice it has been his tendency to telegraph and even undermine the results of major strategic reviews performed by his department — even before the [Read More...]
The Administration Needs To Go Slow On A New Strategic Arms Treaty The ink was barely dry on the New START Treaty before some in the Obama Administration were talking about the need for a follow-on agreement. The current agreement reduces the number of deployed Russian and U.S. strategic nuclear warheads (but [Read More...]
Cyberwar May Be Coming To A Computer Near You The Pentagon is about to publish its long awaited strategy for cyber warfare, the unclassified portions of which are likely to be made public sometime next month. In so doing, the Department of Defense (DoD) is acknowledging what all observers [Read More...]
F-16 Sales To Taiwan Generates Rare Show Of Senate Unity It seems as if the only thing a majority in the U.S. Senate can agree on is that they do not like any of the proposed budget plans. That is, until the subject of the sale of F-16s to Taiwan [Read More...]
Insourcing Could Ruin The Depots The current fight over the Obama administration’s efforts to shift private sector work into the federal government has focused to a large extent on people, or as the government calls them Full Time Equivalents (FTEs). After an enthusiastic beginning, the [Read More...]
Comprehensive Approach Needed To Stem Flow Of IED Material The United States and its coalition partners in Afghanistan are waging an intense struggle against the insurgents’ weapon of choice, the improvised explosive device (IED). The anti-IED fight is a complex affair that involves measures to protect vehicles and dismounted [Read More...]
Defense Secretary Gates Tees Up Major 2012 Election Issue All the pundits are certain that the dominant issue in the upcoming 2012 election will be the state of the economy. No doubt this will be a key determinant of winners and losers. But a sleeper issue that may come [Read More...]
Revolution In Situational Awareness Could Transform Air Operations When I was growing up, one of the neatest pieces of comic book technology was Wonder Woman’s invisible airplane. Not only could the bad guys not detect the aircraft’s approach but Wonder Woman had complete situational awareness. Both airplane and [Read More...]
The Ultimate Guarantor Of Our Security Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has shown himself to be the most thoughtful leader of the Department of Defense in at least a generation. He challenged each of the military services to rethink the value of their most sacred totems [Read More...]