Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

The Gathering Storm In Northeast Asia The announcement that China has surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy is only one reason to pay renewed attention to the Asia-Pacific region. While not unexpected, the rise of China to superpower status economically is still a major [Read More...]
The Key To Acquisition Reform Is A Better Customer There has been a tendency among defense officials, news outlets and defense analysts to blame industry for most of the acquisition problems and program failures that have occurred over the last several decades. Defense companies have been accused of being [Read More...]
Are We At A Strategic Inflection Point? The New National Military Strategy The newly-released National Military Strategy (NMS) begins with this ominous statement: “The ongoing shifts in relative power and increasing interconnectedness in the international order indicate a strategic inflection point.” Although the NMS hews to the line that the United States [Read More...]
Congress Needs To Pass An Omnibus National Security Appropriations Bill It is always risky to raise the subject of legislation, particularly appropriations bills, in conversation or a blog. There are few people even in Washington who understand the basics of the budget process and how an appropriations bill gets constructed [Read More...]
Future Combat System: What Went Wrong? After September 11, the Iraq invasion, Katrina and the BP oil spill the government conducted major investigations to fix responsibility and identify lessons to learn in order to avoid a repeat. It has almost become a ritual in Washington. Yet, [Read More...]
Contradictory Trends Will Drive Defense Budget Decisions Two contradictory trends will dominate U.S. decisionmaking on defense spending over the next several years, perhaps longer. The first is the need to radically reduce the current $1.5 trillion budget deficit. So called deficit hawks have asserted that all parts [Read More...]
“Niche” Defense Contractors Provide Critical Capabilities News and commentary on defense and homeland security issues focus largely on the big companies and programs. This is reasonable and even logical. This is where the money is. The evolution and outcome of major programs such as the F-35 [Read More...]
Navy Changes To Littoral Combat Ship Packages Show Value Of Modularity Now that the decision on an acquisition strategy for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has been taken, the Navy is moving out aggressively to address outstanding issues with the program. One of the most important of these is making sure [Read More...]
The Pentagon Must Prepare For Future Conflicts Even though the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are not over, the U.S. military must start preparing for the next wars. The Marine Corps is trying to reinstitute amphibious warfare training. The Army is returning to practicing for conventional combined [Read More...]
U.S. Gets Smart On Defense Trade With India The United States has finally decided to treat India, the world’s largest democracy, as an equal when it comes to defense trade. In a continuation of its efforts to forge closer ties with the subcontinent, the Obama Administration has ended [Read More...]
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