John Pike
John Pike
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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,
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As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.
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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.
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They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
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It depends on how many nodes you're talking about. A minimal survivable radio network for emergency crews, the improvement of state emergency-management operation centers ? these kind of steps are feasible. But when people start talking about a nationwide survivable network, I tell them, 'Welcome to what's called the real world.' No one is going to pay for such a thing.
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You could certainly question whether an amphibious vehicle is the most appropriate ... to be driving around in a desert.
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It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time,
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It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time. If we're talking about incoming nuclear missiles, that imperfect defense is going to simply be a false sense of security.
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Private companies are in business to make money,
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We're the sole remaining superpower, the only country that's sent people to the moon. If the Chinese sent people to the moon they'd take us down a notch.
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To make sure there is some money left over at the end of the year, they're going to cut costs. A good place to cut costs is security.
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The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable,
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What are you training for? To kill insurgents.
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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.