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June 2003 News

  1. Raining death on U.S. cities? By Jon Dougherty WorldNetDaily.com June 30, 2003 -- Whoever controls space has control of Earth," says physicist John Pike, an international weapons expert. "The United States is unable to resist it. If the U.S. is in a position to control Earth from outer space, there's nothing to stop us. Of course we're going to do it," Pike told the Toronto Star in March 2001.
  2. Army getting to heart of the matter By Dan Caterinicchia Federal Computer Week June 30, 2003 -- George Smith, senior fellow at Globalsecurity.org, which monitors space and military programs, said he was skeptical of the program's potential impact based on the modest funding levels and because this is not a new area of research.
  3. Find It, Fix It, Fly It? Or Forget It? By Kevin Horrigan St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) June 29, 2003 -- "The fundamental reality is that is was designed to do something other than what it is doing," says John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a military and technology think tank.
  4. Navy to Defend Sonar in Court By Noah Shachtman Wired News June 30, 2003 -- The Navy contends the only way to find these is by using active sonar -- a rig that sends out blasts of sound waves into the water and detects reflections off objects, giving away their location. "It's like going into a dark area and flashing the lights on," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  5. Space program up in the air By Frank D. Roylance The Baltimore Sun June 30, 2003 -- Some experts say the way forward lies in the past. "I think really the way to go is an updated version of Apollo," said Charles Vick, a senior fellow at the defense think-tank GlobalSecurity.org
  6. Politics spawned Columbia mission By Michael Cabbage The Orlando Sentinel June 29, 2003 -- "One can certainly use this mission as a way of understanding how the shuttle and NASA have as much to do with politics as science," said John Pike, director of the policy-analysis group GlobalSecurity.org. "Anyone who thinks this is mainly about science hasn't spent much time looking at the space program."
  7. Board to NASA: Find way to fix shuttle in space By Gwyneth K. Shaw The Orlando Sentinel June 28, 2003 -- Charles Vick, an aerospace consultant and senior fellow at GlobalSecurity.org, a space- and defense-policy think tank, said on-orbit inspections should not be difficult to pull off, especially if NASA follows through with plans to put hand- and footholds on the shuttle. Fixing any damage, however, is going to be significantly harder, he said.
  8. 2-6 Cavalry folding flag, unit at Illsheim By Steve Liewer Stars and Stripes June 28, 2003 -- Thursdays simple ceremony honored a unit whose history dates to 1861, when cavalry troops rode horses instead of flying helicopters. It won its first of 16 Civil War battle ribbons in Union Gen. George McClellans Peninsula Campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., in 1862. Later, the unit fought in 10 Indian campaigns, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine rebellion, against Pancho Villa in Mexico, World War II and the 1991 Persian Gulf War, according to the Globalsecurity.org Web site.
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  10. Ground Troops Remain at 146,000; Little Prospect of Returning Soon By Wayne Wooley Newhouse News Service June 27, 2003 -- "It's entirely possible it will all go away in a couple of days," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense think tank in Virginia. "And it's entirely possible you ain't seen nothing yet."
  11. Too early to decide on carrier transfer By Derrick DePledge The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) June 27, 2003 -- Patrick Garrett, a defense analyst with Global Security.org, a think tank in Alexandria, Va., said it would be "bad politics" to pull a carrier out of Norfolk. It takes 18 to 21 days for a carrier from Norfolk to get to the Persia Gulf vs. about 30 days from San Diego, he said.
  12. Coalition troops remain in full force By Wayne Wooley The Star-Ledger June 27, 2003 -- "It's entirely possible it will all go away in a couple of days," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense think tank in Virginia. "And it's entirely possible you ain't seen nothing yet."
  13. US frustrated with Saddam, bin Laden, Omar at large By Will Dunham Reuters June 26, 2003 -- John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org think tank, said if Saddam and bin Laden remain unaccounted for into the 2004 U.S. election year, "It could become a presidential debating point that this administration lacks the capacity or the will to finish the job, even if it may not be a fair point."
  14. A search for patterns as Iraq unrest spreads By Peter Grier and Ann Scott Tyson The Christian Science Monitor June 26, 2003 -- These small groups "have been doing a halfway decent job of slowing down the US effort to stabilize the country," says Patrick Garrett, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org.
  15. Syrian guards hurt in US strike By Bryan Bender and Robert Schlesinger The Boston Globe June 24, 2003 -- ''They're operating under a mosaic theory, where they're interrogating people, and they're monitoring communications, and they're imaging stuff, and occasionally it fits into a picture,'' said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a Virginia-based defense think tank. ''And when it fits into a picture, they blow it up. And it's not a precise process, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.''
  16. Saddam Or Not Saddam? MotherJones.com June 24, 2003 -- 'Saddam is the [Iraqi] regime personified,' said François Boo, of the Washington-based military research group GlobalSecurity.Org.
  17. La suerte que haya corrido Sadam Husein podría afectar a la reelección presidencial de Bush Europa Press June 24, 2003 -- "Sadam es la personificación del régimen", declaró François Boo, del centro de investigaciones militares GlobalSecurity.Org, con sede en Washington.
  18. Une école de hackers à Pyongyang ? Par Alexandre Lévy LE Monde June 23, 2003 -- "Même si la Corée du Nord n'arrive pas à nourrir sa population, ce pays est à même de développer et d'utiliser tout le spectre des armes modernes, y compris informatiques", estime de son côté John Pike, dont le site, GlobalSecurity.org, publie un guide détaillé des forces armées nord-coréennes.
  19. IRAQ: US occupation facing growing armed resistance By Rohan Pearce The Green Left Weekly June 25, 2003 -- The problem the US faces, John Pike, the director of GlobalSecurity.org told the Globe, is that in Afghanistan all we're trying to do & is keep Karzai as mayor of Kabul and give American forces freedom of movement around the rest of the country, but in Iraq the US is attempting to actually govern the country.
  20. U.S. troops face evolving, growing challenge in Iraq By Marcus Stern Copley News Service June 23, 2003 -- "If the United States is unable to bring this situation under control and eliminate this small threat, you could see this explode into something much greater," said Patrick Garrett, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an online defense consultancy.
  21. India Test-Fires Short-Range Trishul Missile, Press Trust Says Bloomberg June 23, 2003 -- The news agency described the Trishul as the country's most sophisticated short-range missile, with a range of 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) and the ability to carry a 15 kilogram (33 pound) warhead. The naval version is designed to counter Pakistan's Exocet and Harpoon missiles, according to Globalsecurity.org, an Alexandria, Virginia-based defense research group.
  22. Dead Or Alive? Why America Needs To Know Whatever Happened To Saddam Hussein By Andrew Buncombe The Independent (London) June 23, 2003 -- "Saddam is the Iraqi regime personified," said Francois Boo, of the Washington-based military research group GlobalSecurity.Org. "It's much easier to declare victory if you have captured the leader of the country and the person said to represent the major obstacle to rebuilding."
  23. Shift in nuclear warheads, targets is well under way By Daniel Sneider San Jose Mercury News (California) June 22, 2003 -- IF YOU'RE INTERESTED:Excerpts of the Nuclear Posture Review are available on the Web (www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.htm[)]
  24. Beschwörungsformeln gegen das irakische Phantom Von Daniel Jahn Agence France Presse -- German June 21, 2003 -- Viele Iraker würden sich der Besatzungsmacht widersetzen, solange sie glaubten, dass Saddam Hussein lebt, sagt John Pike von der auf Sicherheitsfragen spezialisierten Denkfabrik globalsecurity.org. Und indem sie mit der Wiederkehr des Herrschers drohten, hätten Saddam-Getreue ein Druckmittel gegen die Bevölkerung in den Händen.
  25. Urban guerrilla warfare belatedly emerges in Iraq By Marcus Stern Copley News Service June 20, 2003 -- "If the United States is unable to bring this situation under control and eliminate this small threat, you could see this explode into something much greater," said Patrick Garrett, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an online defense consultancy.
  26. Fowler chosen to lead Defense Policy Board Her committee will advise Rumsfeld By Charlie Patton Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) June 20, 2003 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, said the Defense Policy Board 'was a heck of a lot more important under Richard Perle than it will be under Tillie Fowler.'
  27. U.S. pilots exonerated; Families of friendly fire victims bitterly disappointed in decision By Tim Harper Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) June 20, 2003 -- "This would appear to be the lightest penalty to the fewest number of people from the lowest rank in the chain of command that it could go," said U.S. military analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org.
  28. IAEA Urges Iran to Allow Inspections of Probable Nuclear Sites FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME (18:13) June 19, 2003 -- JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: "Will not tolerate," indicated to me that the United States is determined to shut down Iran's atomic bomb program by diplomacy, but by force if necessary.
  29. Rumsfeld says deals possible for key Iraqis By Bryan Bender The Boston Globe June 19, 2003 -- ''I can imagine the lower half of the deck getting 20 years in Diego Garcia in return for a 500 page tell-all,'' said John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va.
  30. Bush's 9/11 coverup? By Eric Boehlert Salon.com June 18, 2003 -- "It was a successful attempt to change the story," notes John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit defense policy group. "From the White House's perspective, no good can come of these 9/11 investigations. So I think their approach has been entirely predictable, and easy to understand."
  31. U.S., South Korea deliberate Yongsan Garrison move By Jeremy Kirk Stars and Stripes June 18, 2003 -- Under the status of forces agreement, South Korea is to pay for any movement of forces. But the time frame for such movement isnt clear, said Patrick Garrett, an associate analyst at Global Security, a military think tank based in Alexandria, Va. If the U.S. does want to begin shifting forces in a short period of time, Garrett said, the South Koreans are going to have a hard time paying for it.
  32. Think Tank Taps Defense Dollars By Michael Myser Wired News June 17, 2003 -- "As with everyone else in the defense industry, Sandia has been looking at their current capabilities and how these can be retooled to the homeland security market," said John E. Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense consultancy.
  33. US troops not likely to head to Palestinian territories, experts say By Patrick Anidjar Agence France Presse June 17, 2003 -- But in the meantime, said Patrick Garrett, of GlobalSecurity.org, the Bush administration has not shown an interest in a peacekeeping role.
  34. Iraq occupation has deadly toll for US By Robert Schlesinger and Amber Mobley The Boston Globe June 16, 2003 -- ''All we're trying to do in Afghanistan is keep Karzai as mayor of Kabul and give American forces freedom of movement around the rest of the country,'' said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org. ''Whereas in Iraq we're attempting to actually govern the country. We're attempting to assert a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Not to raise the dreaded `quagmire' word, [but] what we're trying to do in Iraq is much closer to what the Soviets were doing in Afghanistan or what we were trying to do in Vietnam. We have intentionally avoided that in Afghanistan.''
  35. NASA Lets Congress See Secret Interviews By Kevin Spear, Gwyneth K. Shaw and Jim Leusner The Orlando Sentinel (Florida) June 14, 2003 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a think-tank that tracks space, defense and intelligence issues, noted that none of the key NASA managers involved in the accident investigation has testified publicly to the board, meaning the public has no way to evaluate their performance during Columbia's mission.
  36. U.S. embarks on global shuffle of military forces By Will Dunham Reuters June 13, 2003 -- Patrick Garrett, an analyst with the Globalsecurity.org military think tank, said Turkey might end up like Saudi Arabia with virtually no U.S. troop presence, particularly if America ends up with long-term access to bases in Iraq. He said the United States may give up Turkey's Incirlik Air Base.
  37. Helicopter shot down by Iraqi 'terrorists' By Andrew Buncombe The Independent (London) June 13, 2003 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, a Washington-based military research group, said he believed the attacks on Americans were taking place as US forces worked out the scale and nature of the presence required to ensure law and order in various parts of Iraq. "I think they are nipping it in the bud as the buds appear," he said.
  38. Big brother is watching By Sara Foley The Battalion Online June 12, 2003 -- DARPA already has plans to trace "transactional data" in the form of who e-mails are sent to and where purchases are made, under the Total Information Awareness database project, according to GlobalSecurity.org.
  39. The 'Horizontal' Approach to Space Programs By Rand Simberg Fox News.com June 12, 2003 -- "NASA spent a billion dollars on the X-33, 100 times more than the X-Prize, and they couldn't make it work," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and space policy consulting group in Alexandria, Virginia. "And the X-33 was just a subscale version of something that would have cost 10 times more than that. It costs $10,000 a pound to get into space, and the reason isn't the government — it's physics."
  40. Tiny Cracks From Test Fill Nasa With Dread By Gwyneth K. Shaw The Orlando Sentinel June 11, 2003 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a space and defense think tank in Virginia, said satellites can get very up close and personal - but that the size of the damage and the contrast are crucial. "I would say that if the crack was long and if it was high contrast, there would be a fair chance that a satellite would detect it," he said. "I think that it starts to go to the contrast issue as to how detectable it would be."
  41. Not Just the Foam By Lisa Stark ABC News.com June 11, 2003 -- "The shuttle was giving off warning signs of an impending failure and NASA's safety organization  and their attitude toward safety  was that their organization was not listening to what the shuttle was trying to tell them, that there was an accident waiting to happen," said John Pike, an ABCNEWS consultant and director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  42. The Columbia Disaster Final Report To Be Published This Summer WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (06:30 PM ET) - ABC June 10, 2003 -- JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: The shuttle was giving off warning signs of an impending failure and NASA's safety organization, their attitude toward safety simply wasn't listening to what the shuttle was trying to tell them, that there was an accident waiting to happen.
  43. Boeing admits misdeeds in bid for rocket deal By Christopher Boyd The Orlando Sentinel June 10, 2003 -- "I was only vaguely aware of this until now," said John Pike, a defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va. "It's raised the visibility of the thing far beyond what it had otherwise been."
  44. Marine proud of his small part in toppling Saddam By Joe Thomas Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) June 09, 2003 -- According to the Web site Global Security.org, Wilmington's unit helped secure a major supply road running from southern Iraq to Baghdad.
  45. In favour of peace By Andrew Murray Morning Star June 09, 2003 -- IRAQ was not the war. Iraq was just a battle. The war continues. So said one John Pike, the head of a US defence policy think-tank, speaking at a conference organised by the Guardian three weeks ago.
  46. Many think U.S. will have to stay years in Iraq By Lance Gay Scripps Howard News Service June 09, 2003 -- Robin Leeds, a senior analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington think tank, said she cannot detect any U.S. efforts to bring Iraqis into government even on municipal and provincial levels, or a start to making any transition to Iraqi self-government. "There's not one sign of democracy building in that country," she said. "I think the longer we do not embrace democracy, the longer we will be there."
  47. Air Force: No Plan To Retire A-10 By Ron Laurenzo Defense Week June 09, 2003 -- Originally designed to fly 4,000 hours, most A-10s have between 6,000 and 8,000 hours on their airframes, according GlobalSecurity.org, a Website that tracks military systems.
  48. 'Gold-medal strategy' in space By Gady A. Epstein The Baltimore Sun June 09, 2003 -- "Piloted space flight has always been about prestige, and I think that it will demonstrate that 'China has stood up,' " said John Pike, an American space flight expert, borrowing a phrase used by Mao after the Communist revolution in 1949. "It only serves to impress."
  49. Army Of The Future Lighter, More Lethal By Michael Woods Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) June 08, 2003 -- www.globalsecurity.org: (The future of combat)
  50. Kennedy overhaul price tag balloons Years of neglect have added millions to the cost of upgrading ship By Rachel Davis The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) June 08, 2003 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based defense watch group, said the figures on the Kennedy should be characterized as a cost underestimate rather than a cost overrun. 'That's been the problem with this ship for quite some time. People have been overoptimistic on what was needed to keep the thing in top operating condition,' Pike said.
  51. Stratotankers to add communications to fuel duty By Wayne Specht Stars and Stripes June 07, 2003 -- Using an aerial refueling aircraft to perform this sort of mission does prove that you can teach an old dog new tricks, said Patrick Garrett, a military analyst at Global Security.org. It could prove to be extremely important in the militarys effort to enhance its current command, control, communication and intelligence capabilities.
  52. Tough Talking for Marines in Iraq By Noah Shachtman Wired News June 07, 2003 -- "They had a communication system for every eventuality, and for every issue," said Patrick Garrett, an analyst with the defense think tank Globalsecurity.org. "But they really didn't integrate them all together."
  53. D-DAY: JUNE 6, 1944; Armada Unlocks Fortress Europa St. Petersburg Times (Florida) June 06, 2003 -- Sources: Britannica Online, GlobalSecurity, New York Times and Times files.
  54. U.S. Troops to Leave Korea DMZ By Craig Gordon Newsday (New York) June 06, 2003 -- SOURCES: Periscope, www.globalsecurity.org
  55. Selling America: U.S. units try to win Iraqi hearts and minds By Jim Krane The Associated Press June 03, 2003 -- "You're basically trying to sell a product, and the product is 'Please surrender at your earliest possible convenience,"' said John Pike, a military analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a consulting group based in Arlington, Va.
  56. Pointed Viewpoints Visalia Times-Delta (Visalia, CA) June 05, 2003 -- "I have a much easier time understanding how Big Brother would want this than how [Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld] would use it. They have not identified a military application." Defense analyst John Pike of Global Security.org, on a system being developed by the Pentagon that could capture a multimedia record of where people go and what they do.
  57. Air Force releases $422 million MC2A RFP By Joab Jackson Washington Technology.com June 04, 2003 -- According to the Arlington, Va.-based military research firm GlobalSecurity.Org, it will cost the Air Force $58 billion to develop and build the craft.
  58. Billions wasted on new military vehicle? By Jon Dougherty WorldNetDaily.com June 04, 2003 -- In a recent military exercise, "the Infantry Carrier Vehicle variant required multiple alterations to fit into a C-130," said an assessment of the Stryker by GlobalSecurity.org. "The crew removed two smoke grenade launchers, all antennas, a left rear bracket that blocked egress over the top of the vehicle, the Remote Weapons System and the third-row wheel's bump-stop. Reassembly upon landing took as long as 17 minutes."
  59. CIA highlights al-Qaeda's quest for chemical, biological, nuclear arms By Erika Pontarelli Agence France Presse June 03, 2003 -- Patrick Garrett, an associate analyst with the GlobalSecurity.org think tank, said al-Qaeda's radiological abilities are "serious." But he downplayed the imminence of any chemical, biological or nuclear attack by the terror network.
  60. US, Britain face mounting allegations of deliberate overplaying of Iraqi threat Channel NewsAsia June 03, 2003 -- Patrick Garrett, Senior Fellow, GlobalSecurity.org, said: "The credibility of the administration really is at stake at this point."
  61. Pentagon's New Game: This Is Your Life By Michael J. Sniffen The Associated Press June 02, 2003 -- But John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense analysis group, is dubious the project has military application. "I have a much easier time understanding how Big Brother would want this than how (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld would use it," Pike said. "They have not identified a military application."
  62. EDITORIAL: U.S. should pressure Iran diplomatically By Staff Editorial, Daily Bruin University Wire June 02, 2003 -- According to www.globalsecurity.org, Iran could simply replace fuel rods before they are converted to Pu-240, thus creating weapon-useable waste products.
  63. North Korea's School for Hackers By Brian McWilliams Wired News June 02, 2003 -- Outside North Korea little is known about secretive Pyongyang's current infowar prowess, according to John Pike, president of GlobalSecurity.org, which maintains an online guide to North Korea's military. But Pike said the militaristic nation, which spends much of its gross national product on defense, undoubtedly is working to digitize its military.
  64. Bush's credibility damaged by fruitless hunt for weapons in Iraq: experts By Francis Temman Agence France Presse June 02, 2003 -- "Two months after the war, finding just two rusty trailers -- its clear the Bush administration has a credibility problem," agreed John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org. "The only way to get out of it is to find WMD (weapons of mass destruction) in Iraq," he said.
  65. Dealing With the Threat of SARS HRfocus June 2003 -- www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/report/2003/fema-security.pdf