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December 2010 News

1. N. Korea Boosts Tanks and Special Forces, South Says By Mark McDonald The New York Times 30 December 2010 -- The South Korean military has 688,000 troops, making it the sixth-largest over all, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a public policy organization focused on military and security issues.
2. Expert downplays PRC threat to Taiwan By William Lowther The Taipei Times 30 December 2010 -- However, defense analyst John Pike, founder of the Washington-based think tank Global Security, told the Taipei Times: "The Pentagon can counter this missile. We would know that it was aimed at the carrier; why would we doubt our ability to shoot it down before it reached target?"
3. WikiLeaks Backfires by Exposing Hidden U.S. Virtue: Albert Hunt By Albert R. Hunt Bloomberg 05 December 2010 -- That process plainly has to be reviewed. John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a public-policy organization focused on national security, says, "If you can get a credit card, you can get a 'secret' clearance."
4. Did the Internet incite Portland's bomb plot? KATU 01 December 2010 -- "To continue the holy war beyond Afghanistan," reports defense and aerospace expert John Pike's GlobalSecurity.org, "al-Qaeda's current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems 'non-Islamic' and expelling Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries."