National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short by Lt. General Robert Gard The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944, prompted initially by German V-2 ballistic missile attacks in Europe during World War II. The most recent initiative is the ground-based midcourse defense system, referred to as […]
Defense One Publishes Op-Ed by Lt. General Robert Gard on the Failure of Cooperation Between Security Forces and Governing Institutions in Iraq
The One Thing the U.S. Can’t Train the Iraqi Army To Do by Lt. General Robert Gard The U.S. armed forces have spent considerable time, resources and talent building up and training Iraqi security forces to enable them to maintain a reasonable degree of stability in that war-torn and divided country. Why, then, did tens […]
National Interest Op-Ed on U.S.-Russian Cooperation by General Gard and Nickolas Roth
Don’t Let Nuclear-Security Cooperation with Russia Lapse July 3, 2014 by Nickolas Roth and Robert Gard Republicans and Democrats alike have traditionally understood that investing in nuclear security is a small price to pay compared with the devastating economic, political and social costs of nuclear terrorism. That’s why U.S. cooperation with Russia and other countries […]
The National Interest Publishes an Op-ed on Missile Defense by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle
America’s Massive Missile Defense Mistake by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle On June 22, the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully intercepted and destroyed a target missile in a test over the Pacific Ocean. The Obama administration has said that a successful test would trigger the addition of fourteen more long-range missile defense […]
Politico OpEd: President Obama has the team to modernize national security
Click here to read the full piece from March 20th Politico Despite the partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill, there is at least one area where Americans of all political stripes agree: The United States needs a smarter, more cost-effective national security strategy. The president has assembled just the right team for the job. The next […]
