Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Modernizing The Aegis Fleet Is Smart Move By The U.S. Navy
With all the attention being given to reducing the cost of national defense, it is important to acknowledge the value of upgrading current platforms to provide them with additional capability and, hopefully, longer service lives. The Army has a program [Read More...]
Does The United States Still Need An Amphibious Warfare Capability?
Initial impressions of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ defense budget were that the Marine Corps was particularly hard hit. Not only did the Secretary cancel the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) but he also put the Marine Corps’ variant of the [Read More...]
Gates’ Defense Cuts Are “Chump Change,” But This Is A Good Thing
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced his long-awaited defense budgets yesterday. Despite the efforts of the media to turn his decisions into a major news story there was not much noteworthy in his announcement. The actual reductions in defense spending [Read More...]
The Essence Of American Global Power Is The Carrier Strike Group
Amidst the welter of calls for reducing defense spending, cancelling weapons programs and bringing the troops home, it is useful to consider the role that American global power has served over the past decades. U.S. military power provides a degree [Read More...]
Unsettled World Won’t Let U.S. Reduce Its Military
The conventional wisdom in the national security community is that the United States must and will reduce its expenditure on defense and hence the size and capability of its military forces. Defense analysts are trying to put a good face [Read More...]
Why Budget Specialists Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Propose Force Posture Cuts
In the general rush to cut the budget deficit, much ink has been spilled over various schemes to reduce the size and sophistication of the U.S. military. The most well-publicized of these proposals, that of the deficit commission, called for [Read More...]
Government Services Cost So Much Because Public Sector Workers Receive So Much
Issue Brief
Over the past two years, the Obama Administration constructed a labyrinthine maze of executive orders, directives, regulations and findings all for the purpose of reversing more than a decade of outsourcing government work to the private sector and [Read More...]
Multiple LCS Combat Systems May Be An Advantage
If the Navy is able to buy both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) each will come with its own combat system. Some sources have suggested that this could be a problem for the Navy because it will have [Read More...]
A Modest Proposal To Cut Defense Spending: Build More Nuclear Weapons*
The rush to cut defense spending is on. The president’s deficit commission proposed a trillion dollars in cuts over a decade. Defense department officials are acknowledging that some portion of the $100 billion Secretary of Defense Robert Gates hoped to [Read More...]
Another Test Failure Cries Out For New Approach To National Missile Defense
Yesterday, the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) failed to destroy an incoming intermediate-range target missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll. This is the third major missile defense test failure in the past two years and the second in which both the target missile [Read More...]