Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
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Wanted: Medium-Weight Land Forces
September 15, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief One lesson to emerge from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) is that, at times, U.S. ground forces proved to be too powerful. This seems counterintuitive when the war was won in approximately five weeks with minimum casualties. Yet, there [Read More...] -
Sea-based Missile and Air Defenses
August 31, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Research Study Robust sea-based air and missile defenses will constitute a key strategic capability for the U.S. Navy in the 21st Century. Today the Navy is confronting a serious anti-access threat that will only grow over time. The proliferation of [Read More...] -
Alliance Project Seminar
July 3, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. On July 1, 2003, the Lexington Institute held the third in its seminar series on the limits of alliances. The speaker was Dr. Simon Serfaty, director of the European Studies Program at CSIS. The discussion focused largely on the Bush [Read More...] -
Defense Acquisition: Protect The Parts That Work
June 20, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief The Bush Administration came to office determined to reform the defense acquisition process. It took too long to get new hardware into the field, weapons were often out of date by the time they were fielded and the [Read More...] -
Putting A Stop To The
June 12, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief A modern day “gold rush” fever is threatening to overwhelm good sense and the acquisition process. DoD is being inundated with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle concepts, often systems built of nothing but viewgraphs, that are in some notable cases [Read More...] -
Why Allies? Which Allies?
May 12, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief Does the United States need allies in the 21st Century? If so, what kind of allies does it require? Although the United States has collaborated with many nations throughout its history, including in pursuit of its independence, the [Read More...] -
Homeland Security: Measuring Success
April 1, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief Are we safer now than were on September 11th? At one level this is an existential question to which no concrete answer is possible. At another level it is an eminently practical question that demands detailed response. The [Read More...] -
Defending The Friendly Skies
March 12, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief The effort by the Transportation Security Administration to make U.S. commercial airliners safe from hijacking and bombs is only the beginning. The attempt to shoot down a commercial airliner in Africa on February with two infra-red (IR) guided, [Read More...] -
The U.S. Army Meets Star Wars
February 13, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Issue Brief The United States Army is preparing to propel itself forward on beams of energy into a new realm of warfare. Already, the Army has made great strides in bringing directed energy weapons to the battlefield. The Army, in [Read More...] -
Directed-Energy Weapons: Technologies, Applications and Implications
February 1, 2003- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Research Study After decades of research and development, directed-energy weapons are becoming an operational reality. Such weapons generate streams of electromagnetic energy that can be precisely aimed over long distances to disable or destroy targets. Two types of devices are [Read More...]