44 Quotes by John Pike

Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?

The whole story is hard to put together,

The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.

The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.

Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited.

Private companies are in business to make money,

The bottom line is that the U.S. government looked at this imagery and decided that it was OK for it to be publicly released,

They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem.

As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.