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February 2007 News

  1. Sunnis - not Shiites - biggest threat to U.S. troops By Drew Brown McClatchy Newspapers February 28, 2007 -- John Pike, the executive director of GlobalSecurity.org, an online clearinghouse for military, intelligence and homeland-security information, said that while designing a shaped charge would require expertise, fabricating the devices was simpler, requiring only skill in using metal-machining tools.
  2. Gray weapons market clouds Iran role By Susan Taylor Martin St. Petersburg Times February 28, 2007 -- "Nigeria is as crooked as the day is long, so if Nigeria bought arms from Iran no telling where they are going to show up," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org "And if Iran is supplying arms to Hezbollah, no telling where those are going to show up, either."
  3. Saddam ammo caches deadly By Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAY February 28, 2007 -- It might be impossible to stem the supply of materials for IEDs because Iraq has so many weapons, said John Pike, director of the military think tank Globalsecurity.org.
  4. U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran By James Glanz and Richard A. Oppel Jr. The New York Times February 26, 2007 -- The new information is more substantial than the limited details disclosed earlier this month in Baghdad, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group based in Alexandria, Va.
  5. Venezuela Spending on Arms Soars to World's Top Ranks By Simon Romero The New York Times February 25, 2007 -- And in terms of troop strength, Venezuela’s 34,000-soldier active-duty army still lags behind the armies of Argentina and Brazil, with about 41,400 and 200,000 members respectively, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a Web site that compiles data on military topics.
  6. More Idaho soldiers return from service in Afghanistan Idaho Press-Tribune February 25, 2007 -- According to GlobalSecurity.org, “the battalion continues to set the pace for Army National Guard aviation units across the country.”
  7. Strykers in Hawaii likely won't move to Fort Lewis By Christian Hill The Olympian February 23, 2007 -- This work likely will reinforce the Army’s initial decision, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, an online resource for military information.
  8. 3,500 Hoosiers may go to Iraq in '08 By Will Higgins and Tim Evans IndyStar.com February 23, 2007 -- "If not for the surge, I think they would have left the Guard alone," said Pike, who operates the Web site GlobalSecurity.org. "But they cannot sustain the surge on the active component alone. And there is no way the Army is going to tell Mr. Bush, 'You are going to have to give up on this surge idea because the Army can't hack it alone.' So they are turning to the Guard."
  9. Lethal chess game in skies over Iraq By Rick Rogers San Diego Union-Tribune February 22, 2007 -- Commanders are being urged to try new flying techniques in case the insurgents are exploiting the old ones, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research think tank in Alexandria, Va.
  10. Bush losing allies in Iraq By Tom Raum The Associated Press February 22, 2007 -- The coalition may have outlived its usefulness, suggested John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va., think tank.
  11. Why Is Cheney Thanking Japan? By John Nichols The Nation February 22, 2007 -- According to the www.globalsecurity.org website, which tracks military involvement in Iraq, Kazakhstan, with 29 troops, remains committed to the mission, as does Macedonia, with 33 troops; Estonia, with 34 troops; Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 37 troops and another ten countries, with between 1OO and 865 troops each.
  12. Airman's death in Iraq called murder By William Cole The Honolulu Advertiser February 22, 2007 -- Dalton and Ware were part of the 886th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at Camp Bucca near Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. According to the Web site GlobalSecurity .org, Camp Bucca is the coalition's primary facility for enemy prisoners of war.
  13. Who's in Iraq The Globe and Mail February 21, 2007 -- The list is drawn from media reports and figures compiled by GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based defence and security group, which counted only countries that contributed troops as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom
  14. Venezuela Wants Sub Fleet for Conflict with U.S. By Christian Hill NewsMax.com February 19, 2007 -- "I can see why Chavez wants to militarize Venezuela. ... He's a military man, just like Bolivar was a military man," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org. told the Times, which noted that Simon Bolivar, whom Mr. Chavez idolizes, liberated several Latin American nations from Spain during the 19th century.
  15. New weapons shoot to hurt, not to kill By Scott Cannon The Kansas City Star February 18, 2007 -- “You don’t see people voting with their feet and using this stuff much,” said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org. “That will change if commanders start seeing it proven effective out in the real world.”
  16. Sent to Iraq after four months on the job By Jon W. Glass The Virginian-Pilot February 18, 2007 -- The U.S. military has transformed it into a logistics and operations base for intelligence and weapons-hunting teams, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a Web site that offers information on security and other military topics.
  17. Guard cost was $9M for food, housing By Josh Brodesky Arizona Daily Star February 18, 2007 -- Such long travel distances only undercut the purpose of the operation, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, security and space intelligence consultancy based in Alexandria, Va.
  18. 'Pak agrees to give Saudis nuclear bomb' By Pramit Pal Chaudhuri HindustanTimes.com February 17, 2007 -- But John Pike, head of GlobalSecurity.org, said a large airplane could easily move warheads, especially if the missiles are bought elsewhere.
  19. Iraq burden shifts from reserves to regular active duty troops By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. National Journal February 16, 2007 -- The military claims it needs no Guard combat brigades for 2007, said John Pike, top analyst and outspoken founder of the private intelligence firm GlobalSecurity.org, "but I am guessing that 2008 may be a different matter."
  20. U.S. patrol ship on alert in gulf By Tony Perry Los Angeles Times February 16, 2007 -- "They may be religious enthusiasts, but they're not stupid," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, which analyzes military trends. "They play things so close to the line that without oil revenue, they could be finished."
  21. Big cities' oil sectors top targets for terror By Ian MacLeod The Ottawa Citizen February 15, 2007 -- Its aim is to undermine the power of the Saudi royal family, harass western oil workers and attack the world economy by driving up oil prices, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a U.S. company that monitors and analyses military, intelligence and national security issues.
  22. Analysis: U.S. troops in for long haul By Tom Raum The Associated Press February 13, 2007 -- American forces are deployed in roughly 130 countries around the world, performing a variety of duties from combat to peacekeeping to training foreign militaries, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a defense-oriented think tank.
  23. Experts: US Should Worry About Chinese Anti-Satellite Device By Stephanie Ho Voice of America February 13, 2007 -- John Pike, of the security research company GlobalSecurity.org says China's destruction of a satellite last month was not the first time the Chinese military had tested its anti-satellite capabilities.
  24. Helicopter downings vex U.S. military analysts By Anna Badkhen The San Francisco Chronicle February 10, 2007 -- "Either it's bad luck of no larger consequence, or we have an Afghanistan-sized problem," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a military think tank in Alexandria, Va.
  25. Army Struggles with Backlog of Damaged Gear By John Hendren ABCNews.com February 10, 2007 -- "There's a big problem right now because they simply don't have enough equipment," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a national security Web site that closely tracks military equipment.
  26. Air Force activates intelligence pipeline By Josh Rogin FCW.com February 09, 2007 -- “Air Force DCGS presents significant challenges as it becomes a networked, worldwide, distributed ISR ground system,” according to a document on John Pike’s GlobalSecurity.org Web site.
  27. A US sea-change over Iran By Jason Motlagh Asia Times February 08, 2007 -- "If the Iranians drop [the Russian shipment] into Natanz, within a couple of weeks they would have enough highly enriched uranium for an atomic bomb," John Pike, a defense expert at GlobalSecurity.org, told Asia Times Online.
  28. Helicopter downings signal possible shift in enemy tactics By William Finn Bennett North County Times February 08, 2007 -- John Pike, director of the military Web site GlobalSecurity.org in Virginia, said Thursday that while it's too early to be sure that the helicopter downings signal the start of a trend, military officials are already making adaptive changes.
  29. Friendly fire still deadly in today's wars By Brad Knickerbocker The Christian Science Monitor February 08, 2007 -- "It's certainly not as catastrophic as it was in World War II," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org. "The problem is that all this talk about precision warfare has raised public expectations impossibly high."
  30. ITT Nears Justice Settlement By Keith Epstein Newsday February 01, 2007 -- Thanks to the technology, "one of the big takeaways from the first Gulf War was: We own the night," observes John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington group that conducts military research.
  31. 7 Die As U.S. Helicopter Crashes in Iraq By Kin Gamel The Associated Press February 07, 2007 -- The CH-46 is used by the Marines primarily as a cargo and troop transport, and can carry 25 combat-loaded troops, according to the think tank GlobalSecurity.org.
  32. Our men and women in Iraq deserve the best weapons By James P. Pinkerton Newsday February 07, 2007 -- John Pike of Globalsecurity.org says in USA Today that the EFP “goes through armor like a hot knife through butter.”
  33. Bush proposes huge increase in military spending By Dale Eisman The Virginian-Pilot February 06, 2007 -- If approved by Congress, the request would boost U.S. defense outlays next year past the combined totals of the rest of the world, according to figures compiled by Globalsecurity.org, a Web site that tracks worldwide defense spending.
  34. Hindered by Delays and Corruption, the Iraqi Air Force Is Flying Again, but Barely By James Glanz The New York Times February 05, 2007 -- “In that part of the world, what you call a territory without a couple hundred fighter planes is a protectorate,” said John Pike, the director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense information organization in Alexandria, Va., which has studied the history of the Iraqi Air Force
  35. US military chiefs eye confrontation with Iran By Philip Sherwell Sunday Telegraph February 05, 2007 -- John Pike, director of the military think-tank GlobalSecurity.org, said there were 600 or 700 drones operating in Iraq and "the air is thick with them".
  36. General: Ground fire likely downed 4 helos By Zeke Minaya Stars and Stripes February 05, 2007 -- According to John Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org, a military information Web site, U.S. forces should be concerned of the latest crashes because of “newer more modern and effective anti-aircraft missiles.”
  37. Sailing into harm's way By Lynn Vincent WORLD Magazine February 03, 2007 -- Formed under the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the Pasdaran quickly grew into a formidable force that now commands a "people's militia," the Basij, and also supports its own navy, according to GlobalSecurity.org.