Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Bin Laden Operation Reflects Transformation Of SOF And Intelligence Community President Obama deserves credit for not taking the easy way out when it came to ordering the “hit” on Osama bin Laden. He was offered the options of an air strike or the classic Hellfire missile from a Predator drone [Read More...]
Gaddafi and bin Laden: It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business So said Michael Corleone in the movie, The Godfather, to convince his brother and Mafia associates that it was okay to assassinate a corrupt police captain. This week, within the span of a few days, first NATO and then the [Read More...]
India Pursuing Policy Of Balancing Defense Imports The announcement by New Delhi the other day that both U.S. contenders for the Indian Multirole Combat Aircraft (MRCA) program, Boeing’s F/A-18 and Lockheed Martin’s F-16, had been eliminated is a major disappointment not only for those companies but for [Read More...]
Can The Army Fix Its Broken Acquisition System? In a recent speech, Army Under Secretary Joseph Westphal made public one of Washington’s worst kept secrets: the Army’s acquisition system is broken. Over the past two decades, the Army has experienced a continuous record of failure in major acquisition [Read More...]
AT-6 Meets The Need For An Affordable Light Attack Aircraft Since the United States first became heavily engaged in fighting insurgents around the globe, it was clear there would be a requirement to supplement existing conventional weapons such as tanks and fighters with military systems suited to the unique demands [Read More...]
Aegis Missile Defense Success Refutes Critics Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy successfully tested its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) consisting of an upgraded radar coupled with the advanced Standard Missile (SM) 3 Block IA against a simulated ballistic missile threat. The new SM-3 Block [Read More...]
Comprehensive National Security Review Unlikely To Produce Significant Changes To The Military As part of his plan to cut $4 trillion from the federal deficit, President Obama announced his intention of seeking $400 billion in reductions from the defense budget over 12 years. But rather than just blindly cutting, the President announced [Read More...]
What’s The Point Of Bringing A UAV To A Knife Fight In Libya? Does anyone think that the administration’s strategy for Libya is working? Respected defense expert Anthony Cordesman characterized the U.S.-backed NATO-led campaign as a farce — one that repeats virtually all the errors made by the Bush Administration in Iraq. The [Read More...]
Shutting Down Army Tank Plant May Be A Bad Idea Facing increased budget pressures, the U.S. Army is looking for ways of reducing costs. One step it has come up with is to shut its sole plant for manufacturing M-1 tanks for three years. Beginning in 2013, the Army wants [Read More...]
Libya: It Always Starts With Advisors How many countries have sought to reassure their publics that they were not getting involved in someone else’s civil war by promising that they were just sending advisors? President Kennedy was just sending advisors to South Vietnam. Five years later [Read More...]
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