Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Logistics Lessons From Afghanistan And Iraq There have been many reports, studies and books written about the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan for the conduct of irregular warfare. The military services are embedding the combat lessons learned in their operating concepts, doctrine, tactics and force structure. [Read More...]
The Wrong Debate Over The Future Of The U.S. Military Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently turned what had been a simmering debate over the future of the U.S. military into a full-fledged conflagration. In a series of speeches he questioned both the long-term viability and the affordability of the [Read More...]
Collective Defense Requires Collective Capabilities One of the most important lessons not only of the Cold War but of the new conflicts beginning in the late 20th century is the value of collective military capabilities. NATO is the archetype of the way to pursue collective [Read More...]
Israel-America: When It Comes To Fighting Terrorism What’s The Difference? When Israel enforces its blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza it is criticized by a large part of the world. When the U.S. employs unmanned aerial systems (or drones) to attack Al Qaeda and Taliban targets in half a dozen countries around [Read More...]
Homegrown Threat To U.S. Ports? The Obama Administration is worried increasingly about the danger posed by homegrown terrorism. In the past year there has been the Zazi plot to blow up the Grand Central and Times Square subway stations in New York, the Christmas Day [Read More...]
Russia And China Will Say No To Global Zero Following its success in negotiating a new START Treaty with Russia, the Obama Administration and the Global Zero posse are energized to move forward on their plan for the elimination all nuclear weapons. Those who think that it is a [Read More...]
NSS SHOULD HAVE REQUIRED BUILDING OUR ALLIES’ MILITARY CAPABILITIES A central premise of the Obama Administration’s brand new National Security Strategy (NSS) is the need for the United States whenever possible to act in concert with or even through friends and allies. Under the heading of Pursuing Comprehensive Engagement, [Read More...]
Pentagon, Industry Look To The Future Of Vertical Lift The past several years have seen more than a few conflicts between the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense companies. Defense news seems to be dominated by reports about cost overruns and performance problems on weapons programs, the alleged excessive [Read More...]
Northern Distribution Network Revolutionizes Afghanistan War’s Logistics Of all the places to fight a war, Afghanistan would be almost last on anyone’s list. There are all the well-documented problems: awful terrain, primitive infrastructure, fragmented social and political structures, the ravages of thirty years of conflict and predatory [Read More...]
Korea: If War Comes The chance exists that the Korean peninsula will be engulfed in war for the first time in nearly 60 years. North Korea’s deliberate sinking of a South Korean warship may have lit the fuse. In response, quite naturally, the Republic [Read More...]
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