Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
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...]
Dressing For Success: Equipping The 21st Century Warfighter Quickly And Efficiently Research Study
United States ground forces entered Iraq and Afghanistan poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of protracted dismounted operations. While “equipping the man” has long been a maxim for land forces, the balance between fighting from mounted platforms [Read More...]
Airliner Fuselage Cracks And The Perils Of An Aging Military Air Fleet When a five-foot hole opens up in the fuselage of a commercial airliner, it gets the media’s and public’s attention. In general, the possibility that metal fatigue in older aircraft can result in such hull failures comes as no surprise [Read More...]
Building Partnership Capacity: Sell F-16s To Taiwan A key aspect of U.S. foreign and security policy is to build the capacity of partner nations to undertake their own defense. The importance of pursuing this goal is clearly demonstrated by the air campaign in Libya. Of the 15 [Read More...]
The U.S. Energy Future Must Include Nuclear Power President Obama’s recent speech on energy policy continued his administration’s policy of setting a very high bar when it comes to energy. He wants to reduce by one third the importation of foreign oil within a decade. There are two [Read More...]
F-35 Promises Revolution In NATO Air Operations The current Libyan air operation may be the last of its kind. What I mean by this is an operation involving fourth-generation aircraft against Soviet-era defenses or single-digit surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). To date, the campaign has been as much an [Read More...]
The Army Should Improve Management Of Its Soldier Programs It’s the “little things” that count when it comes to supporting our Soldiers and Marines in war zones. The little things include adequate clothing and equipment to support them in dismounted operations. It may not sound like a big deal [Read More...]
America Wants And Needs A Capable, Costly Military Events in Libya over the past month prove what I have been saying for more than twenty years: American leaders want and need a military establishment that is large, highly capable and, ultimately very expensive. As the President noted in [Read More...]
America’s Gurkhas And The War In Libya All great powers have had their military auxiliaries, myrmidons or sidekicks. Throughout history, nation has fought nation with the winner turning around and making the loser, assuming they fought well, a part of their military. No one did this as [Read More...]
When DoD Does A Wisconsin The predominant issue at all levels of government is controlling costs. In Wisconsin, this has translated into reducing labor’s collective bargaining rights as a means of improving productivity. For Costa Mesa, California the solution was to fire nearly half the [Read More...]