Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Will Iran And The U.S. Face Off In The Gulf? Yesterday, Iran’s minister of defense fired a verbal shot across the bow of the United States, warning that his country could attack our warships in the Persian Gulf in the event of any attack upon Teheran’s nuclear facilities. The chance [Read More...]
Afghan Intelligence Is Broken How dysfunctional does the intelligence process in Afghanistan have to be for three senior intelligence officials, including Major General Michael T. Flynn who is currently Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, to [Read More...]
Army Vision For Ground Combat Vehicle Not Yet Clear In April 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cancelled the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. At the time, he said that the FCS had been designed for a different environment than the one that the U.S. military now confronted. [Read More...]
Army Bureaucracy Continues to Risk Soldiers’ Lives Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Obama Administration are committed to getting our soldiers in combat the critical equipment and support they need to do their jobs. Secretary Gates has made enhancing survivability his particular cause. He forced the [Read More...]
Nigeria: The Next Battleground In The War On Terror? In the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing plot, attention has focused almost exclusively on the well-known terrorist havens such as Waziristan, Yemen and Somalia. What has been all but completely ignored is the nationality of the would-be bomber. He [Read More...]
Federal Spending: Time For A Butter Versus Butter Debate Public Policy 101 says that whenever the United States faces an economic crisis there must be a guns versus butter debate. The argument always goes the same way. We are told that we can either have guns or butter, meaning [Read More...]
Logistics Issues Dominate War In Afghanistan It will take the Department of Defense about a year to deploy the additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan authorized by President Obama. Part of the reason for this seeming delay is the difficulty in moving anything in Afghanistan during the [Read More...]
The Navy’s Roadmap For A New Arctic Environment The U.S. Navy is not waiting for the Obama Administration or the international community to solve the problem of climate change. It is moving ahead to identify the potential impacts of climate change on its operations and to develop the [Read More...]
Intelligence Failures More Profound Than President Admits Yesterday’s release by the White House of the unclassified portion of the review of security failures that led to the nearly successful Christmas Day airline bombing, show an Intelligence Community (IC) that is little better today than it was on [Read More...]
U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy Increasingly Is War By Remote Control During the presidential campaign, President Obama made much of the notion that he would pursue a dramatically different counterterrorism policy than his predecessor. This was one of the motivating factors behind the now nearly-forgotten Cairo speech. However, that speech and [Read More...]