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April 2008 News

  1. Military robot kills without compunction By Nick Farrell The Inquirer April 30, 2008 -- However analysts at military think tank Globalsecurity.org, told the Chicago Sun Times that they represent the way that modern warfare is going.
  2. Tough challenges abroad for next U.S. president By Mike McCarthy Deutsche Presse-Agentur April 28, 2008 -- 'There's not going to be a lot of time for on-the-job training,' said John Pike, a foreign-policy analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, a think-tank outside Washington.
  3. Israel's military shows off unmanned, armed patrol vehicle By Matti Friedman The Associated Press April 28, 2008 -- John Pike, director of the Virginia-based military think tank Globalsecurity.org, said there is only one other similar vehicle operational — a South Korean robot used to patrol the demilitarized zone with North Korea.
  4. Border-fence projects - and costs - accelerate By Brady McCombs Arizona Daily Star April 27, 2008 -- >The costs seem reasonable for the nature of the work, said John Pike, director of Virginia-based GlobalSecurity.org, a non-partisan security-information Web site.
  5. FACTBOX-The Strait of Hormuz, Iran and the risk to oil Reuters April 25, 2008 -- Sources: International Energy Agency (IEA), U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), GlobalSecurity.org, U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, Clarkson shipping consultancy.
  6. US Sells Secret Anti-IED Tech to Iraq By Christian Lowe Military.com April 24, 2008 -- "You have to assume that about the third one that we ship over there is going to go straight out the back door," said John Pike, director of the Globalsecurity.org, a Washington-area defense research group.
  7. Ford City company files for bankruptcy Pittsburgh Tribune Review April 23, 2008 -- Defense policy analyst John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va., said the all-electric ship project "comes and goes," shifting in priority on the Navy budget.
  8. F-117 is leaving the same way it arrived -- stealthily By Peter Pae Los Angeles Times April 22, 2008 -- "It reflects a hyper-security culture that has accompanied this thing since the beginning," said John Pike, a defense policy analyst with.
  9. Army, Marines up enlistment of ex-convicts By James Gordon Meek NY Daily News April 22, 2008 -- "I won't say the military is desperate" to meet Pentagon recruiting goals, said defense analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, "but they're eager to explore any available avenue."
  10. China Boosts Demand, Supply For Shipping By Doug Tsuruoka Investor's Business Daily April 21, 2008 -- "China is extremely competitive when it comes to price in the world shipbuilding industry," said John Pike, head of research firm GlobalSecurity.org.
  11. Copter report offers little insight By Steve Fryr The Topeka Capital-Journal April 19, 2008 -- The NTSB report didn't define "overspeed," but the GlobalSecurity.org Web site defines overspeed as "RPM in excess of design (or) 100 percent RPM."
  12. LA Times: US funding PJAK, PKK Press TV April 17, 2008 -- However, many in Washington have advocated such aid: "it would be a scandal if the US was not funding these groups," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a website about intelligence and military issues.
  13. Officials say current plans create fighter gap By Erik Holmes Air Force Times April 17, 2008 -- Extending the F-16’s flying life to 10,000 hours — which would allow the jets to be flown an additional six to 10 years each — could cost an estimated $2.2 billion, according to GlobalSecurity.org.
  14. Astrospies, corrected By Dwayne A. Day The Space Review April 14, 2008 -- The computer animation of MOL in orbit was based upon images taken from the GlobalSecurity.org website
  15. Finally back on home ground< By Emily Zimmer Rosemount Town Pages April 11, 2008 -- According to GlobalSecurity.org the base holds more than 25,000 military personnel and about 8,000 private contractors. Shared by the Army and the Air Force, it is one of the largest American bases in Iraq.
  16. Hizbullah Rearming Could Have Far Reaching Implications for US By Joe Charlaff HSToday April 09, 2008 -- According to GlobalSecurity.org Iran has a supplied a number of UAV's capable of carrying surveillance equipment as well as explosives, to Hezbollah in recent years.
  17. 'Hizbullah may send bomb-laden UAVs' By Yaakov Katz The Jerusalem Post April 06, 2008 -- According to GlobalSecurity.org, Iran has a number Ababil- and Mohajer-class UAVs
  18. A history of B-1 crashes Rapid City Journal April 06, 2008 -- Another eight aviators have died in B-1 and prototype crashes since 1984, according to www.globalsecurity.org
  19. Ellsworth B-1 catches fire in Middle East By Ryan Woodard and Steve Miller Rapid City Journal April 06, 2008 -- There have been nine B-1s crashes, including the crash of a prototype in 1984, according to the Web site GlobalSecurity.org.
  20. Probe raises concerns about safety of U.S. nuke program By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune April 05, 2008 -- Defense expert John Pike, who runs the Web site GlobalSecurity.org, said the repeated problems - he cited another incident in which a detailed photo of a nuclear submarine wound up on the Internet - spoke poorly of U.S. efforts to keep a tight lid on its nuclear program.
  21. Missile-fuse flap creates concerns over security of nuclear arsenal By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune April 04, 2008 -- Defence expert John Pike, who runs the Website Globalsecurity.org, said the repeated problems - he cited another incident in which a detailed photo of a nuclear submarine wound up on the Internet - spoke poorly of U.S. efforts to keep a tight lid on its nuclear program.
  22. The age of the immigrant spy By Sreeram Chaulia Asia Times April 03, 2008 -- John Pike, the director of GlobalSecurity.org, remarked on Chung's arrest to the Orange County Register, "Chinese do not hit home runs. Their theory is that if you do enough of it, eventually it will amount to something."
  23. Prepared to pay to bring her home By Catherine Field New Zealand Herald April 02, 2008 -- John Pike, of the Washington thinktank GlobalSecurity.org, says this reaction reflects "different national cultures" when it comes to hostage-taking.
  24. Married Troops Can Live Together in Iraq By Bradley Brook and Russ Bynum The Associated Press April 01, 2008 -- John Pike, director of the military think tank Globalsecurity.org., said: "I think they are looking under the sofa cushions for anything they can do to improve retention. They spend a lot of money getting these people trained up."