Dan Gouré is the Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a thinktank based in Arlington, Virginia, and an analyst on national security and military issues for NBC.
On 30 November 2005, he defended the Department of Defense's practices of providing news stories for Iraqi newspapers.
[3] Gouré has called on the United States to produce "several thousand" theater and tactical nuclear weapons.
He also supports the production of several thousand nuclear-capable Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth tactical fighter-bombers.
[5] In 2012, Gouré questioned Obama's "courage", given the President's reluctance to subject the American military to "costs" in order to impose a no-fly zone over Syria.