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| Formation | December 2000 |
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| Founder | John E. Pike |
| Headquarters | 300 N. Washington Street Alexandria, Virginia, US |
Official language | English |
Director | John E. Pike |
| Website | www |
| Remarks | ISSN 2769-8947 |
GlobalSecurity.org is an American independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that serves as a think tank, and research and consultancy group.
The site is focused on national and international security issues; [1] military analysis, systems, and strategies; [2] [3] intelligence matters; [4] [5] and space policy. [6] [7]
It was founded in December 2000 by John Pike, who had worked since 1983 [8] with the Federation of American Scientists, where he directed the space policy, cyberstrategy, military analysis, nuclear resource, and intelligence resource projects. [9] GlobalSecurity.org is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in Alexandria, Virginia, [10] [11] and Pike remains as its director. [12]
The website's target audience includes journalists, policy-makers, scholars, political scientists, military and defense personnel, and the public. [13] [11] It supplies background information and developing news stories, [14] providing online analysis and articles that analyze what are sometimes little-discussed topics [11] in categories that include WMDs, military and defense, security and cybersecurity, intelligence, and space technology. [15] [16] [17] It also disseminates primary documentation and other original materials, [11] provides detailed, high-resolution satellite images and video footage from war zones, [18] [19] and provides definitions of widely used terms for the public. [20] The organization also serves as a defense, military, foreign policy, and national-security watchdog group. [19] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [ excessive citations ]
In part it seeks to find new approaches to international security, and promotes achieving cooperative international security and preventing nuclear proliferation. [11] [16] [26] To this end it seeks to improve intelligence-community capabilities to respond to new threats and to prevent the need for military action, while at the same time enhancing the effectiveness of military forces when needed. [16]
GlobalSecurity.org was listed in the War Intelligence category of Forbes' now-defunct "Best of the Web" directory from 2001 onward; the directory cited its "Depth of military information", and noted its "collection of satellite images and video footage from the war zone". [18] In his 2004 book Plan of Attack , about the behind-the-scenes decision-making that led the Bush administration to invade Iraq, Bob Woodward called the website "an invaluable resource on military, intelligence and national security matters". [27]
