Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

We Have Seen The Future Of Warfare – And It’s Not Insurgency The 2009 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) has warned that the U.S. increasingly is being challenged in cyber space and warns that China is particularly active in this new domain. This warning comes on the heels of recent massive cyber attacks [Read More...]
QDR: Future Conflict Scenarios Raise Serious Concerns If the Department of Defense (DoD) finds it increasingly difficult to manage successfully a relatively limited conflict in Afghanistan, why would it be even considering the possibility of even more challenging scenarios in Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Far [Read More...]
Air Force Sees Need For More Anti-Missile Capabilities According to a recently published white paper, the Air Force believes that it faces a growing asymmetric disadvantage against the growing ballistic missile threat. Based on the 2008 Unified Engagement joint war game, the white paper went on to state [Read More...]
Homeland Security: Focus First On Biggest Threats On the eighth anniversary of September 11, the media and cyberspace will be filled with articles and commentaries assessing the extent to which Americans are safer now from the threat of catastrophic terrorism. There is no question that much has [Read More...]
Obama Policies Maintain U.S. Global Military Role With attention focused on the two wars in Southwest Asia, it is easy to miss the fact that the United States is still the one and only global military power. More than a quarter of a million U.S. military personnel [Read More...]
Beware The Perils Of Insourcing As part of his effort to bring change to the ways the national security establishment does business, the Obama Administration has embarked on a risky strategy of reducing Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community (IC) reliance on contractors by [Read More...]
“Bottom-Up” Weapons Design Doesn’t Work On April 6, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cancelled the manned vehicle portion of the Future Combat System (FCS) program, sending the Army back to the drawing boards. Gates said that the original designs were planned with a different conflict [Read More...]
The Virginia-Class Submarine Program Is A Model For Acquisition Reform If Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his new acquisition chief Dr. Ashton Carter are serious about acquisition reform they should look closely at the experience of the Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine program. Although relatively early in the production run, [Read More...]
The Hole At The Core Of The U.S. Theory Of Counterinsurgency The study by the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, of the situation in that country is an admission of defeat. According to published reports today, the full report clearly indicates that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan [Read More...]
The Navy Is Not Serious Enough About The Threat From Sea Mines While the Army has spent tens of billions of dollars to counter the dangers posed by land mines and improvised explosive devices, the U.S. Navy has done relatively little against sea mines. In the first Gulf War, Iraqi sea mines [Read More...]
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