Dan Goure
National Interest
Arlington, VA, United States
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If Putin Nukes Ukraine, Russia Could Win the War
If Ukraine and the West continue to escalate, Putin will respond by doing what he has repeatedly warned he would do: employ nuclear weapons. → Read More
It Only Gets Better: The F-35 Is Becoming More Lethal and Affordable
The cost of the most common variant, the F-35A, has steadily come down for more than a decade and now is below $80 million a unit. → Read More
The Standard Missile: America’s First Family Among Defense Programs
Many defense analysts, media commentators, and even some senior military personnel have been quick to criticize the U.S. military for its alleged failure to modernize rapidly. These sources are likewi → Read More
Army’s Newest Long-Range Fires System Isn’t New, But It Will Be Effective
The U.S. Army’s highest-priority modernization effort is long-range precision fires. The goal is to provide the Army and the Joint Force with fires systems that will be able to outrange and outs → Read More
Three Ways To Make the m1 Abrams the Tank of the Future
The U.S. Army is on its third quest in twenty years to modernize its armored vehicle fleets. The current effort, driven by Futures Command’s Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) Cross-Functiona → Read More
Why the U.S. Can and Must Win the Race for Hypersonic Weapons
Winning the race to deploy hypersonic weapons will be one of the most important achievements in U.S. national security of the 21st Century. This is why the former Undersecretary of Defense for Researc → Read More
Force Multiplier: U.S. Fleet Of Air-Capable Amphibious Warfare Ships
The Navy and Marine Corps are proposing radical changes to their force structures in line with new concepts for maritime and expeditionary operations. All eyes on what is new, such as the Navy’s → Read More
Army Modernization’s Day of Reckoning Is at Hand
For the past four years, the U.S. Army’s modernization campaign has been driving forward at warp speed. Over this period, the Army has stood up a new major command, Army Futures Command. It has → Read More
High-End Warfare in the Indo-Pacific Theater Will Require Distributed Sensing
The United States’ military is evolving towards a new way of warfare designed to counter adversaries’ efforts to develop a dominant anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capability. This new app → Read More
The Power of a Growing International F-35 Community
The United States is rapidly building an international community based around the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The military value of such a community is indisputable. The F-35 will be one of the pillars → Read More
Helmet Mounted Displays Are a Key Combat Advantage for U.S. and Allied Pilots
What are the capabilities or technologies that distinguish advanced fighter aircraft from their predecessors? A reader would likely list electronically-scanning radar and other sensors, high-performan → Read More
The Marines’ New Way of Operating Will Still Require the LCAC and SSC
The Marine Corps is looking to transform itself. In his Planning Guidance, Commandant General David Berger lays out a vision for his Service to make it more relevant to meeting the military challenges → Read More
Is the F-35 in the UAE’s Future?
The Middle East could be on the verge of another revolution. This time, it appears to be a real Arab Spring. The normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a big d → Read More
Distributed Sensing
Adding a set of smaller, less costly radars to existing networks in the Pacific, Europe and the homeland could create an effective distributed sensor architecture. This investment would be an importan → Read More
Election-Year Attacks on Big Tech Will Undercut Peace and Prosperity
Its election season. Politicians at both the federal and state levels are looking for ways of bolstering their reelection prospects. One way of doing this is to stage public spectacles, the modern... → Read More
The U.S. Should Propose Selling Tanks to Poland
Poland has become a major factor in NATOs defense plans. Located along the Alliances eastern flank, close to Russia, Poland today and in the future will play the same role for NATO that West... → Read More
Consequences of Delaying the DEOS Cloud
The Department of Defenses (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) is on a mission to consolidate most of the Pentagons IT systems and services through a series of large and far-reaching cloud... → Read More
Five Principles for Building a New U.S. Amphibious Warfare Fleet
As part of his new Force Design 2030, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David Berger, proposes to radically reshape the Navy's fleet of amphibious vessels. Berger's vision is based on the... → Read More
To Help the Coast Guard Congress Must Fund a Twelfth National Security Cutter
The Coast Guard, like the other uniformed services, is working hard to cope with a perfect storm of domestic and international challenges. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic confronted it, the Coast... → Read More
A Pentagon Procurement Program That Seems Doomed to Fail
The Pentagon spends more money on federal contracts and relies more on private contractors to provide necessary support than all other U.S. government agencies combined. It writes lots of large,... → Read More