Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Gates Efficiency Proposals Don’t Save Much Money Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates held a news conference to lay out his much anticipated plans to wring costs out of the Defense Department’s overhead activities as part of an effort to find $100 billion of savings to be [Read More...]
The Power Of U.S. Arms Sales As defense budgets decline, it appears increasingly likely that the U.S. military will be required to cut force structure and capabilities. As a result the U.S. will need to emphasize all the instruments of security policy in order to minimize [Read More...]
The V-22, Like The Bumble Bee, Successfully Confounded Its Critics There is an urban legend which can trace its roots back to the 1930s that the bumble bee with its large body and relatively tiny wings was an aerodynamic impossibility. As some observers commented, the bumble bee flew because it [Read More...]
S-300s In Iran: Not The Deterrent Teheran Desires A report that Iran had acquired several firing units of the much talked about Russian-built S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, allegedly from Belarus, sent a small shudder through the international defense community. Some commentators went so far as to claim [Read More...]
DoD Continues Undeclared War Against Private Sector Sustainment Even as Secretary Gates and Under Secretary Carter conduct civilized exchanges with leaders of defense industry, the undeclared war by the Department of Defense (DoD) on the private sector continues. This war has focused particularly on the role of private [Read More...]
Gates Signals Joint Force Facing Big Budget Shortfall Last Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other DoD officials held the second in a series of meetings with leading figures from defense industry. The subject was getting more from industry in an era of reduced real defense spending. [Read More...]
Cyber Threats Should Be At The Top Of U.S. National Security Concerns In most ways, the United States is safer today than at any time in nearly a half century. Nothing on the list of serious threats to U.S. security compares with that once posed by the Soviet Union with its tens [Read More...]
On The Continuing Utility Of Cluster Munitions On August 1 an international convention banning cluster munitions will enter into effect having been ratified by 30 countries. Another 75 have signed the convention but not fully ratified it. The convention prohibits signatory nations from using, developing, producing, acquiring, [Read More...]
LCS 1 Demonstrates Its Potential At RIMPAC Exercises Every two years, the United States organizes and hosts the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC). This is the world’s largest maritime exercise, this year involving some 32 ships, 5 submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 20,000 personnel. Participating countries [Read More...]
Defending Taiwan The Hezbollah Way The military balance across the Taiwan Straits appears to be moving inexorably against Taiwan. China continues to expand its array of ballistic missiles pointed at the island. The People’s Liberation Army is rapidly expanding its Navy with five new classes [Read More...]
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