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August 2002 News

  1. Washington opens a winter window By Michael Evans The Times (London) August 30, 2002 - John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, who formerly worked for the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, says the period from November is crucial because the US Navy would have up to five aircraft carriers able to deploy to the Gulf region.
  2. MOM IN SPACE? By A.J. Hostetler The Richmond Times-Dispatch August 29, 2002 -- Without income, from space tourism or some other source, Pike predicts, the headline for the story of space flight in the 21st century will be this: "Space Age Ends."
  3. Iran's quest for nuclear arms alarms Israel Canadian Jewish News August 29, 2002 - John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a non-partisan U.S. military and intelligence research centre, believes that the moment of truth is on the horizon.
  4. The Imperial Presidency editorial The Nation August 29, 2002 - (doubters are encouraged to compare the January and June 2002 satellite photos of the new US military air base in Qatar posted at www.globalsecurity.org).
  5. AN IRAQI ARSENAL: MANY INDICATIONS BUT NO FIRM PROOF By Robert Schlesinger The Boston Globe August 29, 2002 - "There's significant enough activity at the Fallujah facilities alone to create a presumption that they have an active chemical weapons program," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group based in Alexandria, Va.
  6. Congress' unease grows over Bush plan for Iraq By JAMES KUHNHENN Detroit Free Press August 29, 2002 - "There's significant enough activity at the Fallujah facilities alone to create a presumption that they have an active chemical weapons program," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group based in Alexandria, Va.
  7. Missouri could see role in Iraq attack: Limitless range of B-2 is key BY SCOTT CANON Kansas City Star August 29, 2002 - "The question then becomes, how much can you push the B-2?" said John Pike of the Globalsecurity.org consulting firm. "You'd want to generate the maximum number of sorties."
  8. US-Militär steckt noch in der Planungsphase Hubert Wetzel Financial Times Deutschland 29.8.2002 - "Die USA könnten so Ende des Jahres fünf Träger in der Region haben", sagt der Militärexperte John Pike. Insgesamt wären das rund 400 Kampfflugzeuge, hinzu kämen mehrere mit Marschflugkörpern bewaffnete Kampfschiffe, die zu jedem Trägerverband gehören.
  9. Spy Plane's New Version Is Bigger, Better, More Capable By Bruce V. Bigelow The San Diego Union-Tribune August 27, 2002 -- "When the commander in chief and leader of the free world speaks favorably of your program, that has a tendency to clear your path," Pike said. "There are very few problems with this program that money and patience wouldn't solve."
  10. US braces for new major terror strike BY PATRICK ANIDJAR Agence France Presse August 27, 2002 - But concretely, estimates John Pike, director of the site "www.globalsecurity.org", these measures are still largely insufficient. "They haven't made any systematic effort to understand what needs to be done," he said.
  11. Web site views of U.S. base disturb service members by Vince Crawley August 26, 2002 -- John Pike, the defense watchdog who posts the images on his site, http://www.GlobalSecurity.org, points out that the pictures have been cleared by the U.S. security teams with tight control over the commercial satellite industry. (...) Many military people can get a false sense of security in remote areas, he said. "They think, 'We're way out in the middle of the desert, and nobody knows we're there.' And that's not true."
  12. MARINE CORPS EYES PORTABLE THERMOBARIC WARHEAD FOR URBAN OPS By Malina Brown Inside the Navy August 26, 2002 -- Man-portable warheads can be used with "greater precision than air-dropped munitions and can provide immediate direct support on the battlefield," according to John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington, DC-based defense policy group.
  13. Going mobile - The Army's WIN-T project will provide networking on the fly for troops on the go BY Dan Caterinicchia Federal Computer Week August 26, 2002 -- "A lot of different pieces have to be fit together, which is never easy," Pike said. "The requirement to be able to rapidly reconfigure the network in a reliable fashion would seem rather challenging. There are no evident show-stoppers, but putting all the pieces together may turn out to take some nontrivial time and money."
  14. $1 Billion Question: Where Has All the Air Force EELV Money Gone? By John Kelly, Chris Kridler and Kelly Young FLORIDA TODAY August 25, 2002 -- The government's billion-dollar investment requires some balance between too much oversight and disclosure, which could hurt program efficiency, and too little, which could present quality control or spending problems, said John Pike, a defense policy analyst with Virginia-based globalsecurity.org.
  15. Long-range missle test postponed By Dan Nowicki Colorado Springs Gazette August 23, 2002 -- "Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense policy group based in Alexandria, Va., and a missile-defense skeptic. "It goes to the question of whether you want to spend an awful lot of money on a capability that has been known to work on occasions, when the risk of failure is incinerated cities."
  16. Richard Perle - Washington's faceful bureaucrat By Chris Suellentrop slate.com August 23, 2002 - "Basically, Perle is serving as the ventriloquist's dummy and is making the administration's case publicly but in a deniable fashion," says John Pike, a defense policy expert and an old Perle foe. "Donald Rumsfeld adamantly refuses to talk about blowing up Iraq. Richard Perle talks about very little else."
  17. Navy's Sea Superiority By Peter Barnes Tech TV August 23, 2002 -- John Pike, a military analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, said tracking terrorists, catching drug smugglers, and protecting coastlines are just some of the Navy's emerging responsibilities "and to do that, you don't need a small number of big ships capable of sinking other warships. What you need is a large number of small ships."
  18. U.S. Military Uses the Force By Noah Shachtman Wired News August 22, 2002 - "When Americans get to the west side of Baghdad and find they've got to fight street to street to get to the east side, this (electric armor) is the kind of thing they'd like to have," Pike said.
  19. A Play for Better Soldiers: The Rise of Computer Games to Recruit and Train U.S. Soldiers By Paul Eng ABCNews.com Aug. 21, 2002 -- "In the past, you really had problems doing high-quality training" says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, an online military research firm in Alexandria, Va. "To get well trained used to mean a lot of field training exercises where you burn up a lot of expensive bullets." (...) "At the end of the day, there's no way you can simulate being cold, wet, and hungry," says Pike. "You might be able to do that on the holodeck on the next millennium, but there are some parts of it that have to be physically experienced."
  20. Land Warrior sends consumer electronics into battle By Brandon M. Mercer TechTV August 21, 2002 - John Pike from GlobalSecurity.org says not every soldier will get the Land Warrior system. The military is ordering only about 34,000 sets. Instead, parts of it will be given to different people in the patrol. Maybe one soldier will have the high tech gun. Another can have access to the router and the flip-down eyepiece.
  21. Rocket launches hopes for future By Anne C. Mulkern Denver Post August 21, 2002 - "These new rockets have a high infant mortality rate," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a Virginia-based space systems analysis group.
  22. U.S. Expands Airbase in Qatar NPR Morning Edition August 21, 2002 - John Pike is a military analyst who has offered one of the best unclassified views of that base. It's the view from overhead. Pike's organization published commercial satellite images on a Web site.
  23. Bush to Meet Top Advisers Amid Concern over Iraq BY MARK EGAN Reuters August 21, 2002 - "Everybody else is talking about Iraq. It's hard to see how they would avoid talking about it," said John Pike, a defense policy expert and director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  24. Credibility on Line over Iraq Rhetoric By Jonathan Wright Reuters August 20, 2002 - White House communications director Dan Bartlett implied such a possibility on Monday, saying Bush may decide "that we need to take action to minimize the threat that he now poses." John Pike, an expert on defense policy and the director of GlobalSecurity.org, said Bush may launch air strikes against suspected chemical and biological weapons plants and other military facilities as soon as late November.
  25. White House Denies Softening Tone On Iraq John Diamond USA Today August 20, 2002 -- John Pike of the think tank GlobalSecurity.org said, "It sounds like they're setting the stage for backing off on (a) regime change," possibly in favor of airstrikes on Iraqi weapons facilities.
  26. "Terror on Tape": Chemical Tests CNN LIVE TODAY August 19, 2002 -- "Guided by satellite images and local militia, we pinpointed the now bombed and abandoned facilities through which hundreds of al Qaeda fighters would have passed."
  27. Qatar's Role To Be Key in Iraq Conflict By DAVID A. FULGHUM Aviation Week & Space Technology August 19, 2002 -- The base's growth has been mentioned by Pentagon officials in recent months, but was first detailed by John Pike and Tim Brown of Global Security.org, who examined and measured the facility and posted their findings on the organization's Public Eye section of their Web site in early August.
  28. Back in the Nerve Gas Business? FOX: The Big Story With John Gibson August 19, 2002 - TIM BROWN, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: These were taken from a commercial satellite, digitalglobe .com, and we ordered them. Basically, this facility was added to in 1994.
  29. Bush to Meet with Advisers Amid Iraq Speculation By Adam Entous Reuters August 19, 2002 - John Pike, an expert on defense policy and the director of GlobalSecurity.org, said Bush may launch air strikes against suspected chemical and biological weapons plants and other military facilities as soon as late November.
  30. American Arsenal In The Mideast Is Being Built Up To Confront Saddam Hussein By Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker New York Times August 19, 2002 - Satellite photographs of a United States air base at Al Udeied, Qatar, show continuing expansion of the installation's capability, according to John Pike, a military analyst with GlobalSecurity.org. The pace of construction seems to have picked up since operations in Afghanistan wound down early this year.
  31. IRAQ REBUILDS SITES THAT MAKE NERVE-GAS INGREDIENTS By NILES LATHEM New York Post August 19, 2002 - "These plants would certainly be on the short list of facilities that [U.N. weapons inspectors] would want to look at immediately if they were ever allowed back into Iraq - or that the U.S. Central Command would immediately want to bomb in any new military operations," said John Pike, director of the defense think tank Global Security.org, which is publishing an extensive analysis of the satellite imagery on its Web site.
  32. Washington n'a encore procédé à aucun envoi de renforts militaires vers le Golfe L'Orient Le Jour Lundi 19 Août, 2002 - Des photographies satellitaires de la base sur le site de GlobalSecurity.org, un groupe d'experts basé à Washington, montrent que depuis janvier dernier, une nouvelle rampe de lancement et un centre de commandement ont été ajoutés à la base qui possède une piste de 4,1 km de long et peut accueillir 175 avions et de 10 000 à 15 000 hommes.
  33. Kritik an George Bushs Irakplänen von ERIC CHAUVISTRÉ Die Tageszeitung 19.8.2002 - "Es gibt nichts, was im Entferntesten an eine Diskussion heranreicht, wie sie in Großbritannien oder in Deutschland existiert", meinte John Pike, Direktor des Washingtoner Forschungsinstituts Globalsecurity.org im Gespräch mit der taz.
  34. After Sept. 11, 'Homeland Security' is marketers' mantra By JIM KRANE The Associated Press August 19, 2002 - So far, "there's been a heck of a lot more selling than buying," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense think-tank. "Everyone views this as the next big market but it hasn't happened yet."
  35. Al-Qaeda videos show terror group could launch chemical assault: experts BY PATRICK ANIDJAR Agence France Presse August 19, 2002 - "What we see here confirms what everybody has believed all along: that al-Qaeda has an interest in chemical weapons and has experimented with chemical weapons," said John Pike, a defense specialist at the globalsecurity.org think tank.
  36. Nuevos videos de Al Qaeda muestran a los terroristas probando armas con gases tóxicos EL TIEMPO Agosto 19 de 2002 - "Es el tipo de productos que se puede utilizar para atacar una estación de subterráneo o un hall de aeropuerto, pero en ningún caso para atacar una ciudad", afirmó John Pike, especialista en problemas de defensa en el grupo de investigadores globalsecurity.org.
  37. Des vidéos d'Al-Qaida montrent l'intérêt du réseau pour les armes chimiques Le Monde lundi 19 août 2002 - "Ce que nous voyons ici confirme ce que tout le monde sait depuis longtemps : Al-Qaida est intéressé par des armes chimiques et en a expérimenté", explique à l'AFP John Pike, un spécialiste des questions de défense au sein du groupe de chercheurs "globalsecurity.org".
  38. A move on Baghdad could threaten unity among EU leaders By Anthony Shadid and Robert Schlesinger Boston Globe August 18, 2002 -- John Pike, head of GlobalSecurity.org, a military policy organization, said the United States also has positioned equipment for two divisions in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and South Pacific regions that can be moved with relatively little notice to Kuwait, which neighbors Iraq.
  39. Target Hussein St. Petersburg Times August 18, 2002 - John Pike, a leading defense expert, says Pentagon war planners could be given the go-ahead in early November and operations could commence at the end of the month. ''Whether they will, in fact, do so is a completely different question," Pike said.
  40. How to Paint a Bullseye on Iraq By RON BRACKETT St. Petersburg Times August 18, 2002 - "The biggest question is what happens when you get to Baghdad. Will the appearance of U.S. troops on the outskirts of the city provoke the collapse of the regime or are you going to have to take Baghdad one street at a time?" Pike says.
  41. Advisory board pushing Iraq attack By Stephen J. Hedges Chicago Tribune August 18, 2002 - "It's one thing to be Richard Perle, a former assistant defense secretary during the Cold War," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org. "No one remembers that anymore. It's another thing again for him to be the chair of the Defense Policy Board. I think it has been an extraordinarily effective means for building a political consensus for their views."
  42. New air-defense missile is better - but far from perfect By BOB COX Fort Worth Star-Telegram August 18, 2002 -- "As with any other developmental program, it's had its problems, but it's far from the most troubled program they've got," said John Pike, a weapons analyst and director of Global Security.Org.
  43. Missile-intercept test slated for Saturday By Janene Scully Lompoc Record August 18, 2002 -- "They have basically initiated an across the board policy to reduce the amount of publicly released information about the missile defense program," said John Pike, a military analyst and director of a think tank GlobalSecurity.org.
  44. A New Space Race Is on the Launch Pad BY PETER PAE Los Angeles Times August 17, 2002 - "They clearly have a lot riding on this launch," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and aerospace research firm. "If it goes flawlessly, it can help out with future government buys and have a big impact on commercial sales. If it blows up, it will continue Lockheed's reversal of fortune."
  45. No sudden US build up in Gulf, but preparations go back years By JIM MANNION Agence France Presse August 17, 2002 -- "It looks to us -- with these two hangars combined --you could get a full fighter wing," or about 72 aircraft, said John Pike, GlobalSecurity.Org's director.
  46. "Türkiye de büyük zarar görür" Milli Gazete 16 Agustos 2002 - Amerikan ticari uydu sirketi DigitalGlobe tarafindan çekilen ve internetteki "think tank" sitesi Globalsecurity.org tarafindan yayimlanan fotograflarda, Bagdat'in 50 km kadar kuzeybatisindaki "Fallujah 1" isimli tesisin yeniden insa edildigi görülüyor.
  47. Bush will nicht lange warten By Eric Chauvistré taz, die tageszeitung August 16, 2002 -- Der US-Militärexperte John Pike, Leiter des Forschungsinstituts Globalsecurity.org, sagte im Gespräch mit der taz, er erwarte einen Krieg "zwischen Mitte November und Anfang Februar".
  48. GPS director to take leadership role in NRO's Future Imagery Architecture By Marc Selinger Aerospace Daily August 16, 2002 - John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and intelligence research firm, said FIA is experiencing problems that other programs have had at similar stages in their development.
  49. Directed-Energy Weapons: Possible U.S. Use Against Iraq Could Threaten International Regimes David Ruppe Global Security Newswire August 16, 2002 - GlobalSecurity.org director John Pike, who has extensively catalogued U.S. and foreign weapons capabilities, said the United States has had at least since the early 1980s a "highly classified" cruise missile-launched electromagnetic pulse weapon.
  50. UN Official To Discuss Treaty On Nuclear-Free Zone By Antoine Blua Radio Free Europe August 15, 2002 -- John Pike is the director of the Virginia-based globalsecurity.org information firm. He told RFE/RL that the UN has laid down an appropriate policy agenda, even if doesn't have the money to implement that agenda.
  51. Road to War ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT ABC TV 7:00 PM August 14, 2002 -- JOHN PIKE [director, GlobalSecurity.org]: This is one of the first Stealth-like hangers that we've seen. It looks like the angles of this hangar would make it more difficult for an incoming attack airplane to use its radar to home in on the hangar or to target the hangar.
  52. Preparing for War? By John McWethy ABC News August 14, 2002 "This is one of the first stealth-like hangars that we've seen," said John Pike of Global Security.org said after looking at the satellite images. "It looks like the angles of this hangar would make it more difficult for an incoming attack airplane to use its radar to home in on the hangar or target the hangar."
  53. Experts split on U.S. use of 'hit teams' By William Walker Toronto Star August 14, 2002 - "The notion of American hit teams fanning out across the globe killing people, that's normally the sort of thing we accuse (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein of doing," Pike said.
  54. POTENT MICROWAVE WEAPONS' IMPACT COULD BE FELT IN FUTURE CONFLICTS By GEORGE EDMONSON Cox News Service August 14, 2002 - "When people are talking about high-powered microwave weapons, they're not talking about a single device like the stealth bomber," said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a Washington-area policy organization seeking to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons.
  55. DIRTY BOMBS Lincoln Journal Star August 14, 2002 -- The effects could also be more long-lasting than any other type of strike, said John Pike, director of the Global Security Organization. "You have long-term potential health hazards and you also have longer-term psychological social and political impacts that can go on weeks, months, maybe years," he said.
  56. «I top-gun Usa in Afghanistan usano droghe» Corriere della Sera 13 agosto 2002 - l'esperto militare John Pike - che siano in molti a mettere in relazione l'uso di questi stupefacenti, che scatenano aggressività,con i casi di uxoricidio avvenuti proprio per opera di reduci dall'Afghanistan nella base militare di Fort Bragg».
  57. Commercial Satellites Track Suspected WMD Facilities By Bryan Bender Global Security Newswire August 13, 2002 - "You're not looking for biohazard signs on the roof," Pike said. "We want people to understand what can be done overhead and what can be done on the ground."
  58. ZAPPING SADDAM By NILES LATHEM NEW YORK POST August 13, 2002 -- "Basically, this is a way of going after imprecisely located targets like bunkers under palaces. The idea is you use them to isolate the Iraqi leadership who are hiding in these bunkers," said John Pike of the think tank Globalsecurity.org.
  59. NERVE GAS PLANTS DORMANT BUT DEADLY By Tim Ripley The Scotsman August 13, 2002 - Images taken by an American company, DigitalGlobe, and published yesterday by the Washington-based "think tank", globalsecurity.org, clearly show that the plant has been rebuilt. Piles of rubble left after air strikes by US warplanes during the 1991 Gulf war have been bulldozed to the side of the 68-acre site.
  60. Some question motives behind leaks about Iraq By John Diamond USA Today August 13, 2002 - "Anyone who watches the History Channel can game this one," Pike says. "There's only a short list of military options available to the United States, and anyone who knows which end the bullet comes out of is going to figure out those options pretty quickly."
  61. Doubt cast on al Qaeda's cyber skills By Lisa Hoffman Scripps Howard News Service August 13, 2002 - "Basically, they're just a bunch of Gomers," said John Pike a military and high-tech analyst at Globalsecurity.org, referring to the hayseed Marine in the old "Gomer Pyle" TV show. "I don't think there is any documented evidence of a well-developed interest or capability in this area."
  62. Der Kick im Cockpit By Tobias Hürter Süddeutsche Zeitung August 13, 2002 -- Der unabhängige US-Militär experte John Pike wunderte sich über Schmidts "ungewöhnlich aggressives" Verhalten und mutmaßte, ob dabei Chemie im Spiel war. "Ich habe meinen Piloten nie gefragt, ob er unter Medikamenten stand", sagte der Anwalt des Majors der Zeitung Toronto Star, "aber das ist übliche Praxis."
  63. Developing a Crusader replacement poses high risks, analyst says By Nick Jonson Aerospace Daily August 13, 2002 - "Maybe if the indirect fire howitzer is firing fast enough, you could achieve greater lethality with a smaller bullet," Pike said. "But that would reverse the inexorable trend from the 20th century toward bigger bullets."
  64. Laptops lost, stolen at Justice By Matt Caterinicchia Federal Computer Week August 12, 2002 - Pike was not optimistic that the FBI's controls would be successful. "Personally, I think the problem is going to get a lot worse once the Trilogy system is completed."
  65. 'Hit' parade begins here: Saddam's palaces top U.S. target list By Niles Latem The New York Post August 11, 2002 -- "Saddam can't operate like [nomadic] Osama bin Laden. He's the head of state. Once he disappears and people see his support structure fall, it really doesn't matter whether he's alive or dead," said Tim Brown of the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org, which has compiled an extensive analysis of satellite imagery on its Web site.
  66. Internet good friend to terrorists By John Diedrich The Colorado Springs Gazette August 11, 2002 -- John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense research group, posts pictures of U.S. bases and other military information on the site, which the Aggressor Squadron regularly checks. Satellite pictures from private companies may show a base runway, buildings and anything that isn't inside or camouflaged, but the information only poses a threat if the commander isn't properly protecting the base, Pike said.
  67. Web Sites Offer Views of Farms, Forests, Cities from Hundreds of Miles Up By John Diedrich The Colorado Springs Gazette August 11, 2002 -- Pictures from space are available at these Web sites: www.spaceimaging.com/level1/index42.htm www.digitalglobe.com www.globalsecurity.org
  68. Saddam defiant as US steps up war preparations By Sid Maher Courier Mail August 10, 2002 -- John Pike of Global Security, a think-tank that obtained the satellite photographs of the al Udeid base in Qatar, said: "I think military action has been a certainty against Iraq for two years."
  69. Military looks to drugs for battle readiness By Brad Knickerbocker The Christian Science Monitor August 9, 2002 -- "Given the extent of recreational drug use within the military, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes, it is very easy to imagine that warriors would consider using any manner of drug they thought would increase their chance of returning home alive," says John Pike, a defense expert with GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va.
  70. Experts Fault Government Ability To Protect Computers By BRAD SMITH The Tampa Tribune August 9, 2002 - "The government is not doing nearly as much as it's going to have to do," said John Pike, a defense consultant and director of Virginia-based GlobalSecurity.org, which studies computer security issues.
  71. ATTACKERS WILL FAIL, SADDAM SAYS By Howard Schneider THE ORLANDO SENTINEL August 9, 2002 -- Sources: The Military Balance, U.S. Defense Department, GlobalSecurity.org, Federation of American Scientists, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jane's, KRT, AP KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE
  72. Base in Qatar upgraded for an attack on Iraq The Straits Times August 9, 2002 - Sharing his views on the images, defence think-tank Globalsecurity.org's Tim Brown said the base 'looks like it is being designed to replace the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia so we don't have to rely on the Saudis for this operation'.
  73. EIGHT REASONS WHY THE U.S. WILL ATTACK SADDAM THIS YEAR By Tom Newton Dunn And Ben Taylor The Mirror August 9, 2002 - America will attack Iraq on November 6, US defence experts believe. They are so sure of the date that they have posted an Iraq Countdown clock on the internet to show the minutes ticking away.
  74. In pictures: US desert base grows BBC - Thursday, 8 August, 2002, 16:54 GMT - Satellite images have revealed large scale construction work on a huge US base in the Gulf state of Qatar - which could be used in any possible military action against Iraq.
  75. If the U.S. attacks Iraq, how many American soldiers will die? 'Nachman' MSNBC 7:00 PM August 8, 2002 - PIKE: I think, in this case, we are seeing a move towards a concept of operations that involves a much smaller force, one that's attacking the actual center of gravity, which is Saddam's regime, basically bypassing the Iraqi army, which is not the target, something that can be put into place quickly, something that can get to Baghdad quickly.
  76. Bush given Iraq invasion plan By RICHARD SALE United Press International August 8, 2002 -- John Pike said initial U.S. ground forces personnel in Iraq are expected to be the 101st Airborne Division, the Third Mechanized Infantry Division, a brigade of U.S. Marines and a brigade of British troops. The total would be less than 50,000 ground troops.
  77. War with Iraq The Economist August 8, 2002 -- Mr Pike believes the most important British contribution is one that nobody has noticed so far: Diego Garcia. The British island can be used not only as a base for heavy long-range bombers, but also as a harbour for ships on which huge quantities of military hardware can be "prepositioned", ready to steam towards Kuwait at short notice and off-load the kit needed for a quick march to Baghdad.
  78. Irak'a saldiri hazirliklari tamamlaniyor Milli Gazete August 8, 2002 "Globalsecurity.org" adresindeki sitede yayinlanan ticari uydu firmasi Digital Globe tarafindan çekilen görüntüler, Katar'daki El Ubeyd hava üssünün, olasi bir Irak harekati için son 6 ayda nasil gelistigini ve büyüdügünü gözler önüne seriyor.
  79. Scenarios narrow for attacking Iraq By Peter Grier The Christian Science Monitor August 8, 2002 -- "I'd like to get a look at some of those air bases in eastern Turkey," says John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, a think tank that obtained satellite photos of al Udeid this week.
  80. Iraqi Strategy Centers on Cities By GREG MILLER and JOHN HENDREN Los Angeles Times August 8, 2002 -- "I don't have a sense that [Hussein's] various praetorian guard formations are guerrillas or house-to-house fighters," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, an independent defense policy group. "But if the thing does not spontaneously fly apart, and if it does turn out there are substantial numbers of armed people prepared to resist, it could be real nasty."
  81. Experts say Hussein remains a potent foe By Stephen J. Hedges Chicago Tribune August 8, 2002 -- Estimating Iraq's military capability; Troops, equipment; Range of Iraqi delivery systems; Sources: The Military Balance, U.S. Defense Department, GlobalSecurity.org, Federation of American Scientists, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jane's, KRT, AP.; Chicago Tribune.
  82. Navy Tests High Tech Stealth Boat By Peter Barnes Tech TV August 8, 2002 - John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that he founded in December 2000 and one of the world's leading experts on defense, space, and intelligence policy, thinks the Norwegian boat could fill an existing hole in the Navy's arsenal.
  83. Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was a turning point in WWII By Rick Montgomery The Kansas City Star August 7, 2002 - And in Pike's view, Japan _ blazing a ferocious course to be master of the Pacific _"was the toughest army that ever fought a war" to that point.
  84. Saudi Arabia denies US use of its bases to launch a war against Iraq CBS Evening News (6:30 PM ET) August 7, 2002 - And as these commercial satellite photos show, the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar is allowing the US to develop a major new air base as a backup in case it is not allowed to use the runways and command center it has built in Saudi Arabia.
  85. Iraq's military arrayed to fight Iran, insurgents The Associated Press August 7, 2002 -- Sources: Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Jane's; GlobalSecurity.org; Periscope.
  86. QATAR - US FINDS NEW FRIEND The Scotsman August 7, 2002 - NEW satellite photographs of a huge new air base in the Qatari desert show that US efforts to reduce reliance on Saudi Arabia for any possible strike on Iraq have come to fruition, writes Tim Ripley.
  87. WAR BUILD-UP REVEALED BY SATELLITE By Richard Wallace The Mirror August 7, 2002 - THESE pictures are the clearest evidence yet that the US is preparing for war. The pin-sharp satellite images are of an air base in Qatar, which America has spent pounds 1billion on, creating one of the most advanced military sites on the planet.
  88. Plans for a Strike Against Iraq CNN LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE August 7, 2002 - Pentagon sources say that the war planning includes plans for either limited access or perhaps even no access to Saudi bases. At this base, seen in the satellite picture in Qatar, the U.S. is setting up an alternate command center in case they need to use a command center outside of Saudi Arabia.
  89. Pentagon plans around Saudi bases Cable News Network August 7, 2002 -- As a back-up, the United States has been outfitting a second air operations center at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, but Pentagon sources said the Saudi center is preferred because of its capacity.
  90. Satellite photos US plans to attack Iraq The Frontier Post [Peshawar, Pakistan] August 7, 2002 -- Tim Brown of the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org that has published an extensive analysis of the latest satellite imagery on its web site said the base "looks like it is being designed to replace the Prince Sultan Air Base.
  91. Pentagon legt Bush Plan für Irak-Invasion vor Von Hubert Wetzel Financial Times Deutschland 7.8.2002 -- "Das klingt so, als ob man sich einem Plan annähert, den sowohl die Militärs als auch die Politiker umzusetzen bereit sind", sagt der Militärexperte John Pike. "Diese Einigung ist bei jedem Krieg ein großes Problem."
  92. U.S. covert action against Saddam would be dicey prospect, experts say JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press August 6, 2002 - Iraq's military has 350,000 to 400,000 troops, arrayed to fight rebels, defend against Iran and other neighbours and protect President Saddam Hussein: Sources: Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Jane's; GlobalSecurity.org; Periscope.
  93. Plans Advance for War Against Iraq By NILES LATHEM New York Post August 6, 2002 -- Tim Brown of the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org which has published an extensive analysis of the latest satellite imagery on its web site, said the base "looks like it is being designed to replace the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia so we don't have to rely on the Saudis for this operation."
  94. Terrorists and Nuclear Power Plants THE BIG STORY WITH JOHN GIBSON Fox News Network (17:31) August 5, 2002 -- JOHN PIKE, GLOBAL SECURITY.ORG: So much of the response that we've seen to September 11 nearly a year later continues to be a lot of stuff that's for show.
  95. High-tech industry makes mark in US war By Chryss Cada Boston Globe August 5, 2002 - ''It's just an efficient division of labor,'' said John Pike, president of globalsecurity.org, a public nonprofit organization that does defense and space policy analysis. ''The more time commercial satellites spend doing mapping, the more time they [government satellites] can spend looking for Osama [bin Laden].''
  96. NASA tech chief defines new mission BY William Matthews Federal Computer Week August 5, 2002 - IT is not a notable weakness at NASA, according to John Pike, head of Global Security.org, which monitors space and military programs. But at least one automated system - finance - needs reform. "They need a financial management system that can catch million-dollar cost overruns before they become billion- dollar cost overruns," he said.
  97. US PLANS WINTER INVASION ON IRAQ TO OUST SADDAM By Steve Mckenzie Sunday Mail August 4, 2002 - Mr Pike said: "All the plans are bad. All carry risks. I think the least risky is one in which about 50,000 ground troops rapidly march from Kuwait to Baghdad seeking to provoke a collapse of the Saddam regime."
  98. Hopped-up pilots spark uproar by William Walker Toronto Star August 3, 2002 -- "I think it's one of those things where the American reporters know this is going on, but the American public has absolutely no idea," said John Pike, a defence analyst for the Washington-area think-tank Globalsecurity.org.
  99. Friendly Fire Deaths Linked to US Pilots on Speed by Andrew Buncombe The Independent (London) August 3, 2002 -- John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defence think-tank, said: "Better bombing through chemistry. I think enquiring whether amphetamine use had a role in the bombing errors is an obvious question to ask."
  100. Military action to remove Saddam Hussein loaded with potential problems NBC Nightly News (6:30 PM ET) August 2, 2002 - Mr. JOHN PIKE (Globalsecurity.org): It will give the United States the ability to quickly launch an attack against Iraq because all of the hardware is already in the theater and all you have to do is fly the troops in.
  101. The battle before the US-Iraq war By Peter Grier The Christian Science Monitor August 2, 2002 - "If I'm planning to fight a medium-sized war on Thanksgiving, I'm going to try and convince everybody we're going to fight a big war on Valentine's Day," says Mr. Pike.
  102. US Pilots Stay Up Taking "Uppers" Canada AM 07:43:30 Eastern Time August 1, 2002 - The initial reports that we had suggesting that the pilot was acting in an unusually I would say almost inexplicably aggressive fashion, my immediate thought was that maybe he'd simply been taking too much speed.
  103. U.S. pilots stay up taking 'uppers' William Walker Toronto Star August 1, 2002 "Better bombing through chemistry," remarked John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a Washington-area defence policy think-tank. "This was certainly one of my first thoughts after the Canadian friendly fire accident," he said in an interview. "The initial depiction made it seem as if the pilot was behaving in an unusually aggressive fashion."
  104. Vyhnal velryby na plaz zvuk sonaru NAVY? iHNed August 1, 2002 - Podle americkych odborniku na armadu, jako je treba John Pike, sef GlobalSecurity.org, ma namornictvo jiz tradicne nejvetsi potize s ekologii, daleko vetsi nez pozemni armada a letectvo.