Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Report: U.S. Ability To Put People In Space May Die In Next Decade With all the media’s attention being focused on health care legislation, strategies for Afghanistan and rampaging shooters in Texas, it is not surprising that virtually no one noticed the publication of yet another report by a government-sponsored commission. But this [Read More...]
The Army’s Vision For GCV Is Confusing The Army is getting ready to roll out its vision of the new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV), the system intended to serve the role once planned for the manned ground vehicles of the defunct Future Combat System (FCS). The GCV [Read More...]
America Must Be Ready For War With Iran Tragically for the people of Iran, the Obama Administration’s efforts to engage that country are likely to end in failure. In the aftermath of the June 12 popular uprising against the rigged presidential elections, the leadership in Teheran has purged [Read More...]
Stryker Criticism Inaccurate And Misleading It was distressing to open yesterday’s Washington Times, a newspaper that I believe provides some of the best coverage in the country of defense issues, and find an article on the Stryker wheeled combat vehicle full of inaccuracies, half truths [Read More...]
Gordon Brown To President Obama: Man Up It is not a good sign when America’s allies have to make the argument for a sustained commitment to a conflict that this country began. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today delivered what may be the best speech of his [Read More...]
The Next Afghanistan Is Calling Like the lyrics to the once popular song “Bali H’ai” from the musical South Pacific, the next U.S. intervention in a failed state to defeat Al Qaeda may be calling to advocates of counterinsurgency warfare. According to reports from the [Read More...]
MDA Needs A Complete Plan For Ground Based Defenses On April 6, the Obama Administration presented the country and the world with half a plan for ballistic missile defense. The Secretary of Defense announced that the so-called European third site consisting of ten ground-based interceptors in Poland and a [Read More...]
Building Partnership Capacity Requires Honest Government The decision by challenger Abdullah Abdullah to withdraw from the run off election for a new Afghan president appears to throw U.S. plans for a new strategy in that country into disarray. Without honest elections, there is no way to [Read More...]
Political Elites Turning Against Gates Strategy It is over in Afghanistan. Tom Friedman has weighed in on the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan. In today’s New York Times America’s minister without portfolio to the world declares “We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, [Read More...]
Does The President Respect His Military Advisors? As the delay in making a decision on troop levels in Afghanistan drags on, it seems increasingly apparent that the problem is not one of strategy but of personalities. The current situation seems like an odd turn of events for [Read More...]