Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Military Struggles To Meet Urgent Needs Of The Individual Soldier
In the war in Afghanistan it is the little things that count. Things like armored underwear. According to a recent article in USA Today, the Pentagon is providing troops on the ground with a variety of personal clothing and gear [Read More...]
Time To Revise Nunn-McCurdy
It is like Banquo’s ghost is haunting the Department of Defense. Actually, it is two other ghosts: that of former senator and defense expert Sam Nunn and former representative Dave McCurdy. What haunts the Pentagon and stands as the lasting [Read More...]
Joint Strike Fighter Continues To Make Progress
As the Pentagon moves towards negotiating for the next lot of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, it is doing so with a sense that things are moving in the right direction. Pentagon acquisition chief, Under Secretary Ashton Carter, publicly stated that [Read More...]
Department of Defense Getting Smart On Meeting Urgent Operational Needs
One of the most important lessons to come out of the last eight years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the inevitability of troops in combat needing equipment which had not been available to them in peacetime. Operating primarily [Read More...]
The Immoral Superpower
What can one say about a nation, a superpower, that starts a war ostensibly in order to save innocent lives and then walks away from the conflict taking its unique military capabilities with it and thereby ensuring that it is [Read More...]
The Good News Story Of The Virginia-Class Submarine
One of the favorite sayings in the news business is “if it bleeds it leads.” That is why car wrecks, natural disasters and government crises are always front page news. Good news stories are relegated to the inside pages or [Read More...]
Libya And The Limits Of Airpower
The “war” in Libya is two months old. The fortunes of both sides have ebbed and flowed with government forces recently driving the rebels back almost to the gates of Benghazi, their capitol. NATO airstrikes continue with some 25 of [Read More...]
U-2 Continues Sixty Year Career As Workhorse Of Airborne Surveillance
What do the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Libyan operation have in common? The answer is the presence of the U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Without fanfare and with little acknowledgement the U-2 has been conducting critical intelligence, reconnaissance and [Read More...]
MDA Needs To Provide Hedges In The Missile Defense Program
Recent Congressional hearings on the administration’s plan for deploying advanced missile defenses have raised concerns regarding the ability of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to successfully achieve planned goals. The current plan for the so-called Phased Adaptive Architecture (PAA) is [Read More...]
Enabling The Carrier Strike Group: The Role Of The E-2 And C-2
Research Study
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) is the most powerful, mobile and flexible aggregation of military capability in the 21st Century. A CSG is fully capable of supporting operations across the entire spectrum of conflict and peacetime [Read More...]