Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
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...]
Cloudy Visions Of A Future U.S. Navy Secretary of Defense Robert Gates set off a whirlwind of discussion and blogging with his May 3 speech to the Navy League. In his speech, the Secretary appeared to fire a broadside at the Navy and Marine Corps. He criticized [Read More...]
Gates Cost-Cutting Crusade Would Benefit From More Use Of Performance-Based Logistics Like Greece, Spain and the state of California, the Department of Defense (DoD) is on a crusade to reduce its overhead costs. The Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has set a target of reducing his department’s overhead expenses by $10 [Read More...]
NATO 2020 Is Pure Fantasy A panel of distinguished former defense leaders and diplomats chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has produced a vision for the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance called NATO 2020. According to this proposal, NATO needs to do [Read More...]
Back To The Future — The Perils Of Insourcing Research Study
Executive Summary
Faced with the need to control the costs and improve the performance of its logistics and sustainment system, the Department of Defense has pursued a deliberate strategy of integrating better the private and public, or organic, [Read More...]
North Korean Attack Is A Harbinger Of Threat From Nuclear-Armed Iran What everyone feared was the case has now been proven to be fact. North Korea deliberately sank a South Korean patrol boat, killing 46 sailors and risking a war between these two countries (and by extension the United States). This [Read More...]
Congress Calls On Obama Administration To Defend Taiwan On Friday, a letter was delivered to the White House calling on the Obama Administration to move forward with the sale of F-16 fighters to Taiwan. In a demonstration of true bipartisanship 136 members of the House including more than [Read More...]
The Middle East Arms Race Heats Up While good for U.S.-Israeli relations and the defensive needs of a close U.S. ally, the Obama Administration’s decision to provide a rapid infusion of funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system is also an ominous sign that the security [Read More...]
Sanctions On Arizona Harsher Than Those On Iran The Obama Administration is having trouble putting together a package of sanctions on Iran. After a year during which Iran has both thumbed its nose at the White House and accelerated its nuclear programs, the administration is looking to send [Read More...]
Everyone’s Privatizing But The Pentagon The global trend is clear: privatization of government functions is the way to lower costs, reduced budget deficits, improve efficiency and have a better standard of living. The Greek bailout carried with it stringent European Union and International Monetary Fund [Read More...]