John Pike Quotations

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,

Risk-averse American decision-makers would have to be focused on the possibility that the Chinese will beat us back to the moon. It would be a reasonable worry from the political perspective,

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.

The fact that the government authorized the release of this imagery I think indicates that the Defense Department decided that the release of this imagery was not going to jeopardize the troops.

I think we're going to see a package deal.

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

You could certainly question whether an amphibious vehicle is the most appropriate ... to be driving around in a desert.

What are you training for? To kill insurgents.

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.

Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well.