Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Attitude, Not Lack Of Sharing, Is The Key To Latest Intelligence Failur It is now clear that the U.S. Government, not just the Intelligence Community but other relevant agencies, had sufficient information about the Nigerian would-be aircraft bomber to take action. It was not just that his own father had “outed” him [Read More...]
Intel Community Isn’t Keeping Up With Changing Terrorist Threat If the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Homeland Security cannot adequately defend against a lone Nigerian college student with exploding underwear, what chance will they possibly have against the emerging nexus of South American drug cartels and Islamic [Read More...]
Deterring Iran: Sanctions Won’t Work New Year’s Day has come and gone, and the government of Iran has failed to meet the Obama Administration’s deadline for entering into serious negotiations regarding its nuclear weapons program. In fact, the Iranian Foreign Minister escalated the confrontation, warning [Read More...]
Where Is Our Response To Iran’s “Tiananmen Square”? What is happening in the streets of Iran’s cities is as significant as the street demonstrations that brought down the Soviet Union and almost toppled the government of China. Completely internal and spontaneous responses to last year’s fraudulent national elections, [Read More...]
Our Homeland Security System Doesn’t Work Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the system worked.” This is the same system that had been warned by the bomber’s own [Read More...]
Is There a Civil-Military Split Over Afghanistan? President Obama’s speech at West Point on December 1 made a very strong case for expanding U.S. and NATO military operations in Afghanistan and for sending 30,000 more troops to that country. After weeks of uncertainty, it seemed as if [Read More...]
State Department Not Doing Its Part to Defeat Afghan Insurgents. One of the centerpieces of the Obama “doctrine” for the pursuit of U.S. national security is placing a greater weight on the non-military elements of national power. Many in or near “Team Obama”, from Joseph Nye and John Hamre to [Read More...]
Iran is Weak and Isolated Iran is Weak and Isolated. The seizure last week of a planeload of North Korean weapons bound for Iran created a sensation. Using a Georgian-registered charter aircraft, and a host of front companies to hide the true nature of the [Read More...]
The Army Has Too Many Vehicle Programs The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have presented the U.S. Army — and to a lesser extent the Marine Corps — with an enormous number of challenges. In addition to fighting and winning its current wars, the Army must also [Read More...]
Contractors Crucial to Afghanistan Surge While attention has been focused on President Obama’s decision to deploy an additional 30,000 uniformed personnel to Afghanistan, what has passed unnoticed is the fact that those new troops will be accompanied by a large “surge” in private contractors. According [Read More...]