Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
U.S. Ability To Influence Developments In And Around Iran Is Waning Lest anyone be fooled by what seems to be slight progress in the Obama Administration’s effort to impose new sanctions on Iran, the situation is rapidly slipping beyond Washington’s ability to influence, much less control it. In the 15 months [Read More...]
Iranian ICBM Threat Demolishes The Administration’s Missile Defense Strategy Less than a year ago, the Obama Administration cancelled plans for the so-called Third Site ground-based missile defense in Europe arguing that the near-term threat did not warrant deployment of a high-end defensive capability. Instead, the administration declared that it [Read More...]
Say Goodbye To U.S. Air Dominance — And Perhaps To Victory In The Next War Some militaries are defeated in battle; others lose the war before the firing even begins. For example, it is the general consensus among military historians that the French military lost in World War Two before the first German panzer had [Read More...]
Reform Of Export Controls Is Part Of The Gates Grand Design Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is continuing his crusade to transform the way in which the United States conducts national security affairs. The most revolutionary Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara (and a much better one), Gates’ vision encompasses changing [Read More...]
Non-Nuclear Global Strike Mission Requires New Missile The most important security initiative the Obama Administration can take in the remainder of its term is the development of a credible prompt conventional global strike capability. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review made a point of the growing anti-access threat [Read More...]
Scuds To Hezbollah Will Radically Alter Middle East Balance Of Forces The recent accusation by Israeli President Shimon Perez that Syria has transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah passed all but unnoticed by the mainstream press. Yet, if true, this could prove almost as destabilizing an event as Iran’s acquisition of a [Read More...]
So We Find A Terrorist Bomb, Then What? Last week’s summit in Washington focused on the threat of nuclear terrorism. In fact, we have little new evidence regarding Al Qaeda’s efforts to acquire a nuclear device than what was found in some caves in Afghanistan some nine years [Read More...]
The Administration Is Schizophrenic On The Nuclear Threat Two events this week underscore the Obama Administration’s schizophrenic thinking about the nuclear threat to the United States. The first was the signing of the new START treaty which re-established the centrality of the U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear relationship in global [Read More...]
Is The Era Of U.S. Global Naval Dominance Ending? A new report by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) is warning that the U.S. Navy is reaching a “tipping point” after which it will no longer be able to exercise global dominance. According to this analysis, “current strategies based [Read More...]
Russian Paranoia Imperils Future Arms Control Efforts Yesterday’s op-ed in the New York Times by former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Secretary of State George Schultz (“How to Build on the START Treaty”) is an example of how arms control thinking can run amok. The [Read More...]