David C Gompert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5768876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Gompert |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gompert |
| SIGNATURE | GOMPERT D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential
The United States should enlarge its concept for countering Chinese expansionism to stress economic power in addition to military power. One bold move to this end would be to include Vietnam in a redefined ‘Quint’ alongside the current Quad comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States. Instead of forging a US–Vietnam defence treaty and encouraging a Vietnamese military build-up, which could trigger a hostile Chinese reaction, the US w…
Winning the US–China Technology Race
Detect and Engage
The threat that paces American force planning is not from Russia, but rather from China. This is leading to a new way of warfare. The authors call it 'detect and engage'. The confluence of artificial intelligence, applied quantum mechanics and satellite networking permits dispersed and diverse units and platforms to operate as a unified joint force across sea, air, land and space. Cyber operations, practically indifferent to location, further ena…
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China
With the rising risk of complex crises and military escalation in the Pacific region, the United States should invite China into a process of nuclear restraint and confidence-building, which we call ‘nuclear stewardship’. This process could start with a joint bilateral declaration that neither superpower would use nuclear weapons first against the other or its formal allies. This would acknowledge that neither side could gain by striking first wi…
Four Circles
Policymakers need a broad and durable framework for clearly assessing the challenges posed by China, setting priorities for dealing with them and developing effective and consistent responses and initiatives. This article offers a framework derived from Chinese leaders’ long-standing quest for control. It consists of four concentric circles, from China’s domestic order in the centre, where its pursuit of control is strongest, to its conception of…
Towards a Quantum Internet
A quantum internet could provide more effective security against private cyber crime, Russian cyber war and Chinese efforts to gain information dominance
Spin-on
Now that China is all-in for technological competition, both the presumption of American primacy and the proper roles of US government and industry are open to debate
Decisive Response
NATO still needs nuclear weapons, purely and simply, to deter Russia from using them first
Cyber War and Nuclear Peace
The United States must take the lead in reconfiguring nuclear deterrence to withstand cyber war
Creating a Sino-US Energy Relationship
America’s emergence as a producer of liquid hydrocarbons suggests an opportunity to sell energy to China, help reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions and lend stability to this most critical relationship
Cyber House Rules
Cyber war is unfamiliar, dynamic and potentially uncontrollable. While not as destructive as nuclear war, it should be approached with similar respect
Waging Cyber War the American Way
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' said
Cyber Warfare and Sino-American Crisis Instability
China and the US both recognise that an armed conflict between them would include cyber warfare. But there is a curious and risky failure to connect the tactical military advantages of cyber attacks with the strategic hazards
North Korea
French Nuclear Weapons, Euro-Deterrence, and Nato
Underkill
During the first few years of their occupation of Iraq, U.S. military forces proved to be better at killing insurgents than at defeating the insurgents by convincing the Iraqi people to turn against them. As a consequence, the insurgency grew despite its losses, the population's tolerance for the U.S. occupation shrank, and U.S. casualties mounted. At a certain point, a majority of all Iraqis believed that the use of force against U.S. troops was…
Underkill’
The battle for Gaza revealed a favourite extremist strategy: hiding in cities and provoking attack to cause civilian deaths that can be blamed on the attacker. Western militaries, having no options but deadly force, are ill-equipped to defeat this strategy. Using deadly force in population centres can alienate the very people whose cooperation forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a suite of capabilities that includes sound, light, la…
Breaking the Failed-State Cycle
Insecurity in the 21st century appears to come less from the collisions of powerful states than from the debris of imploding ones. This paper aims to improve the understanding and treatment of failed states by focusing on critical challenges at the intersections between security, economics, and politics and on the guiding goal of lifting local populations from the status of victims of failure to agents of recovery
Early Days in Iraq
Iraq provides an object lesson in the costs and consequences of unprepared reconstruction. The record of the Coalition Provisional Authority during its 14 months in Iraq, in particular several of its most controversial decisions, including the disbandment of the Iraqi army, the exclusion of senior Ba'ath Party members from government office, the timing and organisation of national elections, the development of an Iraqi constitution and the beginn…
Making Liberia Safe
Liberia’s new government has made security sector transformation a high priority. The authors analyze Liberia’s complex security environment, set forth an integrated security concept to guide the formation and use of those forces and assemble a complete security structure. They develop specific force-structure options, discuss the cost-effectiveness of each, and suggest immediate steps toward implementation of the new security structure
Heads We Win
This research brief summarizes the steps that current U.S. counterinsurgency operations must take to move beyond the use of force and ''fight smarter'' against a networked global insurgency that is quick to adapt, transform, and regenerate
For a capability to protect
America and Europe
Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: an Atlantic partnership for the new era David C. Gompert 2. Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War Ronald D. Asmus 3. An economic agenda for the new era Gregory Treverton 4. A new partnership: new Nato structures James A. Thomson 5. Europe as partner John Van Oudenaren 6. America as partner David C. Gompert 7. Security challenges on Europe's Eastern periphery F. Stephen Larrabe…
Nuclear first use revisited
Free-Rider Redux Nato Needs to Project Power (And Europe Can Help)
Cyber Warfare and Sino-American Crisis Instability
China and the US both recognise that an armed conflict between them would include cyber warfare. But there is a curious and risky failure to connect the tactical military advantages of cyber attacks with the strategic hazards
Nuclear first use revisited
How to Defeat Serbia
Those whose sole concern has been to keep the United States out of the Yugoslav conflict may view American policy over the past four years as successful. The rest of us?even those who had a hand in that policy?know failure when we see it. True, the war has not spread beyond Croatia and Bosnia, owing in part to an American containment strategy. Also true, the human agony would have been worse had the United States not supported an international re…
America and Europe
Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: an Atlantic partnership for the new era David C. Gompert 2. Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War Ronald D. Asmus 3. An economic agenda for the new era Gregory Treverton 4. A new partnership: new Nato structures James A. Thomson 5. Europe as partner John Van Oudenaren 6. America as partner David C. Gompert 7. Security challenges on Europe's Eastern periphery F. Stephen Larrabe…
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Waging Cyber War the American Way
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' said
Heads We Win
This research brief summarizes the steps that current U.S. counterinsurgency operations must take to move beyond the use of force and ''fight smarter'' against a networked global insurgency that is quick to adapt, transform, and regenerate
Cyber War and Nuclear Peace
The United States must take the lead in reconfiguring nuclear deterrence to withstand cyber war
For a capability to protect
Free-Rider Redux Nato Needs to Project Power (And Europe Can Help)
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
How to Defeat Serbia
Those whose sole concern has been to keep the United States out of the Yugoslav conflict may view American policy over the past four years as successful. The rest of us?even those who had a hand in that policy?know failure when we see it. True, the war has not spread beyond Croatia and Bosnia, owing in part to an American containment strategy. Also true, the human agony would have been worse had the United States not supported an international re…
Nuclear first use revisited
Free-Rider Redux Nato Needs to Project Power (And Europe Can Help)
America and Europe
Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: an Atlantic partnership for the new era David C. Gompert 2. Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War Ronald D. Asmus 3. An economic agenda for the new era Gregory Treverton 4. A new partnership: new Nato structures James A. Thomson 5. Europe as partner John Van Oudenaren 6. America as partner David C. Gompert 7. Security challenges on Europe's Eastern periphery F. Stephen Larrabe…
For a capability to protect
Making Liberia Safe
Liberia’s new government has made security sector transformation a high priority. The authors analyze Liberia’s complex security environment, set forth an integrated security concept to guide the formation and use of those forces and assemble a complete security structure. They develop specific force-structure options, discuss the cost-effectiveness of each, and suggest immediate steps toward implementation of the new security structure
Heads We Win
This research brief summarizes the steps that current U.S. counterinsurgency operations must take to move beyond the use of force and ''fight smarter'' against a networked global insurgency that is quick to adapt, transform, and regenerate
Breaking the Failed-State Cycle
Insecurity in the 21st century appears to come less from the collisions of powerful states than from the debris of imploding ones. This paper aims to improve the understanding and treatment of failed states by focusing on critical challenges at the intersections between security, economics, and politics and on the guiding goal of lifting local populations from the status of victims of failure to agents of recovery
Early Days in Iraq
Iraq provides an object lesson in the costs and consequences of unprepared reconstruction. The record of the Coalition Provisional Authority during its 14 months in Iraq, in particular several of its most controversial decisions, including the disbandment of the Iraqi army, the exclusion of senior Ba'ath Party members from government office, the timing and organisation of national elections, the development of an Iraqi constitution and the beginn…
French Nuclear Weapons, Euro-Deterrence, and Nato
Underkill
During the first few years of their occupation of Iraq, U.S. military forces proved to be better at killing insurgents than at defeating the insurgents by convincing the Iraqi people to turn against them. As a consequence, the insurgency grew despite its losses, the population's tolerance for the U.S. occupation shrank, and U.S. casualties mounted. At a certain point, a majority of all Iraqis believed that the use of force against U.S. troops was…
Underkill’
The battle for Gaza revealed a favourite extremist strategy: hiding in cities and provoking attack to cause civilian deaths that can be blamed on the attacker. Western militaries, having no options but deadly force, are ill-equipped to defeat this strategy. Using deadly force in population centres can alienate the very people whose cooperation forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a suite of capabilities that includes sound, light, la…
North Korea
Cyber Warfare and Sino-American Crisis Instability
China and the US both recognise that an armed conflict between them would include cyber warfare. But there is a curious and risky failure to connect the tactical military advantages of cyber attacks with the strategic hazards
Cyber House Rules
Cyber war is unfamiliar, dynamic and potentially uncontrollable. While not as destructive as nuclear war, it should be approached with similar respect
Waging Cyber War the American Way
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' said
Creating a Sino-US Energy Relationship
America’s emergence as a producer of liquid hydrocarbons suggests an opportunity to sell energy to China, help reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions and lend stability to this most critical relationship
Decisive Response
NATO still needs nuclear weapons, purely and simply, to deter Russia from using them first
Cyber War and Nuclear Peace
The United States must take the lead in reconfiguring nuclear deterrence to withstand cyber war
Spin-on
Now that China is all-in for technological competition, both the presumption of American primacy and the proper roles of US government and industry are open to debate
Towards a Quantum Internet
A quantum internet could provide more effective security against private cyber crime, Russian cyber war and Chinese efforts to gain information dominance
Four Circles
Policymakers need a broad and durable framework for clearly assessing the challenges posed by China, setting priorities for dealing with them and developing effective and consistent responses and initiatives. This article offers a framework derived from Chinese leaders’ long-standing quest for control. It consists of four concentric circles, from China’s domestic order in the centre, where its pursuit of control is strongest, to its conception of…
Detect and Engage
The threat that paces American force planning is not from Russia, but rather from China. This is leading to a new way of warfare. The authors call it 'detect and engage'. The confluence of artificial intelligence, applied quantum mechanics and satellite networking permits dispersed and diverse units and platforms to operate as a unified joint force across sea, air, land and space. Cyber operations, practically indifferent to location, further ena…
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China
With the rising risk of complex crises and military escalation in the Pacific region, the United States should invite China into a process of nuclear restraint and confidence-building, which we call ‘nuclear stewardship’. This process could start with a joint bilateral declaration that neither superpower would use nuclear weapons first against the other or its formal allies. This would acknowledge that neither side could gain by striking first wi…
Political science (27 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Computer security (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · China (6 works)