Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
The Battle Of Midway Was Won With Stimulus Money The turning point for the United States in the Pacific during World War Two was the battle of Midway. Aircraft from three American aircraft carriers, the Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet, successfully engaged a much larger Japanese fleet including six aircraft [Read More...]
Can We Look Forward To An Era Of U.S. Conventional Military Preeminence? Good news: the Obama Administration is seeking to ensure that the U.S. remains the world’s sole superpower. Contrary to the views expressed by critics on the right and left, the administration’s ostensible efforts to reduce nuclear weapons on the way [Read More...]
Obama Nuclear Strategy Requires Investments In Allies’ Conventional Capabilities Yesterday, the Obama Administration released its much-anticipated Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The report is actually a remarkably restrained and sober document that makes only modest changes to U.S. nuclear policy and force structure. It could have been much worse. Even [Read More...]
OMB Takes First Step To Define Inherently Governmental Functions The anti-private sector ideology of the current administration is nowhere more in evidence than in the efforts to take away jobs performed by private contractors in support of the federal government and turn them into government positions, called insourcing. The [Read More...]
New Obama Nuclear Strategy Undermines Extended Deterrence Reports have surfaced that sometime this week President Obama will declare that the United States is changing the nuclear strategy that has maintained the security of the Free World for half a century. The essence of the U.S. strategy was [Read More...]
The Trans-Atlantic Alliance: Going, Going, Gone While the Washington intelligentsia is all atwitter about Niall Ferguson’s article in Foreign Affairs warning of the end of the American “Empire,” Europe is leaving the world stage. The continent that created the modern world has decided that it no [Read More...]
Budget Request For Mine Warfare Is An Important Investment The Administration’s FY 2011 defense budget request asks for $57 million for the Mine Warfare Mission Package (MWMP). Intended primarily to be deployed on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the MWMP is at the heart of the Navy’s effort to [Read More...]
“Paper Tiger” Europe Needs Missile Defenses Last weekend, NATO’s Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Europe’s NATO members that Europe risked becoming a paper tiger unless it invested more in its own defense. Struggling under the weight of the kind of social spending programs that the [Read More...]
Defending The West’s Periphery Will Require A New U.S. Strategic Architecture The collapse of the Soviet Union continues to pay dividends in terms of the security of the Free World. The core of that world — North America, Western Europe and Japan — continues to be relatively secure from threats to [Read More...]
Insourcing Defense Services: Quantity Is Not Quality The Obama Administration’s program of insourcing critical functions now performed by private contractors has merit. Those activities represent inherently governmental functions which are critical to the ability of the government to manage its bureaucracy or private contractors and should be [Read More...]