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August 2001 News

  1. Reorganization of BMDO will bring fundamental changes, director says By Sharon Weinberger Aerospace Daily August 28, 2001 -- "Demonstrating that something works is a standard that everybody is judged by," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a frequent critic of missile defense. "If you create a different set of rules [for missile defense], it creates a lot of jealousy for other program managers."
  2. Iraq's Apparent Downing of Spy Plane Highlights U.S. Dilemma on No-Fly Zone By GREG JAFFE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 28, 2001 -- "With the Predator you have to know exactly where to look. It gives you an up-close-and-personal view of a particular target," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based group analyzing defense and space policy.
  3. Bush pick embodies new military direction By Abraham McLaughlin The Christian Science Monitor August 27, 2001 -- Myers is "one of the most significant choices in recent memory," says John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org in Virginia. His selection makes clear how serious the Bush administration is about pushing forward on space defense.
  4. Tale of unnamed countries, satellite pictures, decorated retired Marine News4 - August 26, 2001 -- "U.S. intelligence is interested in the Libyan chemical weapons program," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, a think tank in Alexandria, Va. "It has closely monitored that program. Libya would like to hide it. Libya would like to know what U.S. satellites are able to see."
  5. Not all would-be spies see success By Gail Gibson Baltimore Sun August 26, 2001 -- "In general, these espionage cases kind of quickly divide into major-league and minor-league kinds of cases," said John Pike, an intelligence and defense policy analyst in Alexandria, Va. "For every major-league spy, there's probably a handful of guys like this."
  6. A spaceman in the Pentagon By EDWARD ALDEN Financial Times (London) August 25, 2001 -- John Pike, a defense analyst with Globalsecurity.org, a Washington think-tank, calls it "a signature appointment by this administration . . . Space weapons are the administration's most identifiable military agenda and they have here the leading uniformed proponent of it."
  7. Retired Sergeant Faces Spy Charges By John J. Lumpkin Associated Press August 25, 2001 -- "U.S. intelligence is interested in the Libyan chemical weapons program," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, a think tank in Alexandria, Va. "It has closely monitored that program. Libya would like to hide it. Libya would like to know what U.S. satellites are able to see."
  8. Bush Nominates Myers as Military Chief All Things Considered , August 24, 2001 -- Mr. JOHN PIKE (GlobalSecurity.org): The speech was noteworthy because it was certainly getting out in front of the administration's policy at that time in terms of what sort of space combat capabilities were required.
  9. A Pilot's 'Good Hands' Near Joint Chiefs' Helm By Vernon Loeb, Washington Post, August 24, 2001 -- Although Pike opposes the idea of militarizing space, he said he understands why Bush finds Myers a perfect fit as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, describing his tenure at the Space Command as "unusually high profile." Unlike the typical Air Force officer sent off to spend a couple of quiet years at SpaceCom, Pike said, Myers truly "embraced" the futuristic mission.
  10. Espionage Arrest - Retired Air Force Sergeant Accused of Spying ABCNews.com August 24, 2001 -- "It appears that sort of their routine broad sweep of their monitoring international e-mail traffic picked him up" said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org.
  11. »Time out« für etwa 2.500 Webpages Georg Schöfbänker Telepolis 24.08.2001 -- John Pike hat sich hier wieder zu Wort gemeldet, mit dem Statement: "The Internet is now the way people get information and if the military is not releasing information on the Internet, they're not releasing information at all."
  12. Many DOD Web Sites Remain Blocked In Classified Cyber-Security Case Inside The Pentagon August 23, 2001 -- The commercial sector has not responded to any of the Code Red variants by blocking public access longer than necessary to install the software patch. "Either dot-mil has profoundly overreacted, or the rest of the Internet has underreacted," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  13. NASA TRIES TO CUT COSTS, NOT SCIENCE Tamara Lytle THE ORLANDO SENTINEL August 21, 2001 -- "In a well-run program, you would not be able to get that kind of cost overrun all at once without anyone knowing about it," said space consultant John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org.
  14. Space Based Weapons & Technology The Diane Rehm Show - Tuesday, August 21, 2001 -- We've heard a lot about plans for a space-based missile defense shield, but that's only part of the technology that's intended for use in space. A panel talks about lasers, radar, cameras, and other systems being developed by the military and private sectors.
  15. High Cost of Selling U.S. Jets By Mark K. Anderson Wired.Com 2:00 a.m. Aug. 20 -- John Pike of the Pentagon watchdog group GlobalSecurity.org questions the potentially destabilizing influence of Super Hornet sales -- especially to a region like Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.
  16. Delays, Overruns Plague Lockheed Group's New Satellite System By Greg Schneider, Washington Post August 15, 2001 -- The military should have been suspicious from the beginning about any promises to speed up the program, said John Pike of the nonprofit think tank GlobalSecurity.org. "The iron law of space projects is that they always cost more, take longer and do less than originally planned, period. That's just the way the world works," he said.
  17. Pentagon planning for space bomber By Robert Windrem MSNBC NEWS August 14, 2001 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a critic of increasing use of space by the military, says that the Pentagon does not want to draw attention to the program. "The clandestine aspect is integral to why it would be fun for them," said Pike, referring to Pentagon planners.
  18. Decrepit Radar Base Is All Putin Has For Country's Missile Defense By CARLA ANNE ROBBINS and ANDREW HIGGINS The Wall Street Journal August 13, 2001 -- U.S. satellite photos pinpoint the location of the massive radar installation about 30 miles north of Moscow near this small village. But driving along the country roads, there is almost no hint of what lies hidden behind the dense wall of trees.
  19. MISSILES UNIT SHIPSHAPE WITH EX-ADMIRAL AT HELM By Richard Burnett THE ORLANDO SENTINEL August 13, 2001 -- One of the missile unit's biggest deals in a decade came last fall when it beat out Raytheon Co. for Arrowhead, a potential $1 billion contract to upgrade the weapons and navigation systems on the Army's Apache helicopter. It's the biggest feather so far in Arthur's cap, said John Pike, a defense analyst and founder of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research firm in Washington.
  20. Upgraded Missiles Found Less Accurate By Peter Pae Los Angeles Times August 9, 2001 -- "How they would allow it to go uncorrected, I'm at a loss to understand," said John Pike, a defense policy analyst for GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va.-based think thank. "It's particularly puzzling, since Minuteman III has been around so long and what they're trying to do doesn't involve path- breaking technology."
  21. NASA aims high, but funding is up in the air By Michael Cabbage Orlando Sentinel August 9, 2001 -- "The station's original premise under [President Ronald] Reagan was to beat the Soviets. We did that," said John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org policy research group. "The premise under Clinton was to cooperate with the Russians, which Bush doesn't seem overly concerned about. And all along, from Reagan through Clinton, the idea was to cooperate with the Europeans and Japanese, which Bush doesn't seem too worried about, either."
  22. Govt Nod Mandatory for Buying Satellite Images The Statesman (India) August 9, 2001 -- When Mr John Pike got down to examining new satellite photos purchased of Pakistan's nuclear missile site, he expected to find "two warehouses inside a fence". Instead, he discovered a whole well-developed military base.
  23. Battleground Space THE NATIONAL [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC TV] ( 10:00 PM ET ) August 8, 2001, Wednesday -- JOHN PIKE: If space were to become a combat arena, I think it may only be a combat arena of other countries shooting at American military satellites and that would be a bad thing for America and I think a bad thing for the world.
  24. US Spy Sats In "Wrong" Orbits by Jeff Hecht New Scientist August 8, 2001 -- "It's silly. These things are among the brightest objects in the sky," says John Pike director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based policy group. He says the Pentagon has grown arrogant, believing "we won the cold war, we can do whatever we want".
  25. Truth or conspiracy: Lunar landing The Today Show 08 August 2001 - In the latest segment in the Today show's Truth or Conspiracy series, John Pike of globalsecurity.org talks with Today's Katie Couric about the controversy surrounding the first moon landing.
  26. Strike back at the Empire by Dan Charles New Scientist August 4, 2001 -- John Pike of the Virginia-based independent defence consultancy GlobalSecurity.org comments: "We're returning to those thrilling Star Wars days of yesteryear - space-based weapons, sea-based weapons, everything-that-isn't-nailed-down-at-both-ends weapons.
  27. Air Force's Chief Backs Space Arms By Vernon Loeb Washington Post August 2, 2001 - "I think it's going to be increasingly controversial as the implications of this policy play out," said John Pike, a space expert who runs Globalsecurity.org, a think tank. "It runs fundamentally against the main theme of our space policy for the last half century -- to demonstrate America's power in space in a nonthreatening way."