Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Administration’s Arms Sales Dilemma In East Asia President Obama has a problem. Well, he has many but this one is his arms sales strategy, particularly in East Asia. On the one hand, the United States has major security interests in the region as well as very clear [Read More...]
Lessons Learned From Fallujah to Marja The transformation of the U.S. military is all but completed. Nothing marks the change more than a comparison of the 2004 battles for Fallujah in central Iraq and the 2010 campaign for Marja in the Helmand Valley of southern Afghanistan. [Read More...]
U.S. International Arms Sales Build Partner Capacity The defense strategy articulated in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) places a great deal of emphasis on enhancing the relationships between the United States and its friends and allies. Building the security capacity of partner states is identified as [Read More...]
The Pros and Cons of Drone Wars Over the past year, the Obama Administration has decimated Al Qaeda, killing twelve of the terror group’s top twenty leaders as well has hundreds of rank and file. The very week that the Christmas Day bomber conducted his abortive attack, [Read More...]
The First Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Neither New Nor Interesting A few days ago the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). Like its older cousin, the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the QHSR was intended to be prospective in character, to [Read More...]
Obama Budget Risks America’s Leadership In Space Conservatives are wrong when they accuse our President of being against private business and the free enterprise system. In the administration’s proposed 2011 budget, America’s manned space flight program is turned over to the private sector. So, on the one [Read More...]
Obama: America’s Gorbachev? In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party, the de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He came to power following years of ineffective leadership, economic decline and growing restiveness within the so-called Communist bloc. Although [Read More...]
Is The QDR Strategy Out Of Step With The Evolving Security Environment? The key assumption behind the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is that the United States will have sufficient time and warning with which to win the wars it is in now and then “pivot” to address future high-end or more [Read More...]
Director of National Intelligence Raises Alarm Over Growing Cyber Threats On February 2, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Ret.) and his main subordinates from the CIA, DIA and FBI, appeared before Congress to deliver their annual threat assessment. According to Admiral Blair, the nation’s cyber [Read More...]
Gates Is Right: Budget Cuts Would Mean A Smaller Force On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to give testimony on the FY2011 defense budget. In response to a question from Colorado Senator Udall on the likelihood of the Department of Defense having [Read More...]
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