GlobalSecurity.org In the News

June 2001 News

1. Space station to undergo external review By Frank Oliveri FLORIDA TODAY June 27, 2001 -- John Pike, founder of Globalsecurity.org, said the outside team may bear responsibility for future space station problems. "Setting up a commission is a standard Washington solution to a problem too big for one bureaucracy," Pike said.
2. International Space Station Partners Concerned By Steven Siceloff FLORIDA TODAY 26 June 2001 -- Space analyst John Pike, founder of Globalsecurity.org, said "As soon as you say you are going to cut back the crew, you're immediately confronted with the fact that there is no room for the Europeans or Japanese."
3. Why U.S.A. has need of a coherent space policy Philip Gold The Washington Times June 24, 2001 -- From Ike to Pike, i.e., from President Eisenhower to John Pike, there's been great reluctance and/or horror about "militarizing space."
4. Hunt turns high-tech RICHARD BROOKS THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (RIVERSIDE, CA.) June 23, 2001 -- The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is best known for its work during the war in Kosovo, said John Pike, director of a space and intelligence policy group called GlobalSecurity.Org.
5. U.S. Activates Air Force Squadrons for Space Control By Jim Wolf (Reuters) Wednesday June 20 -- The U.S. national security-related space budget is difficult to peg, largely because of questions about which activities and their ground legs to include, according to John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.com, an Alexandria, Virginia-based defense, space and intelligence policy group.
6. How Real Is The 'Rogue' Threat? By Robert Windrem MSNBC.com June 19, 2001 -- "North Korea has a very modest facility ... more of a missile proving ground, like White Sands out of 1946, not Vandenberg [Air Force Base] or the Kennedy Space Center," said Tim Brown, senior analyst for Globalsecurity.org. The White Sands Proving Ground was established in New Mexico at the tail end of World War II by the U.S. military to test new weapons' systems.
7. Stealth's Unmasking Only A Matter Of Time By Scott Canon Kansas City Star June 17, 2001 -- "There's no permanent military advantage," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense policy group. "Computational power made stealth aircraft possible a decade ago, and it will make stealth impossible in the future."
8. Troubled System Shows Hurdles Missile-Defense Plans Will Face By Carla Anne Robbins, Wall Street Journal June 15, 2001 - For these weapons to be able to find their prey, the U.S. will have to build several sets of new sensors to provide what is known as "birth to death," or more piquantly "lust to dust," tracking. "That's the missing link, ... the Holy Grail of missile defense," says missile-defense skeptic John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based group analyzing defense and space policy.
9. Post report of a fast-track missile defense plan gets mixed reaction Jefferson Morris Aerospace Daily June 11, 2001 - The idea of placing five interceptors in Alaska is little more than a "fig leaf," according to John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, which analyzes defense issues. "Five interceptors with no discrimination radars would require a degree of cooperation from the enemy that we might be able to get from Britain, but certainly could not get from France," he said.
10. On foreign policy, Bush moving to Clinton views By John Diamond Chicago Tribune June 8, 2001 - "Reality sets in," said John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, a national security think tank. "They have found it to be rather more difficult to embark on new policy directions than they would have thought."
11. Russians Test Super-Quiet Sub By David Ruppe ABC News.com June 7, 2001 - "It's certainly a major milestone for them that after all this time they've finally launched the bloody thing," says John Pike, a military expert who runs GlobalSecurity.org in Washington, D.C. "They went on a construction holiday, basically, 10 years ago."
12. Military drones catch civilian flak BY Bruce V. Bigelow The San Diego Union-Tribune June 5, 2001 -- It's easy to imagine that civil authorities would be worried about UAVs that are large enough to crash a passenger plane in a collision, but too small to show up on civil radar, said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research group based in Alexandria, Va.
13. MISSILE SHIELD NEEDS FRIENDS Michael Cabbage THE ORLANDO SENTINEL June 3, 2001 - John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org policy research group and a longtime missile-defense opponent, has a modest proposal to convince doubters such as himself: Hold a picnic on the National Mall in Washington. Invite the president and missile-defense supporters in Congress, the Pentagon and industry. Launch a nuclear warhead toward Washington with the picnic as ground zero. Knock it out with the new national missile defense. That, Pike says, would even make a believer out of him. "One thing's for sure," he added. "I won't be there."
14. U.S. to Close Eavesdropping Post By David Ruppe ABC News.com June 2, 2001 -- "I would say that, to the first approximation, anything they could do at Bad Aibling they could do at Menwith Hill. . I'd be really suprised if they were losing anything," says John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org in Washington, D.C.