Geopolitical Futures

Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.

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Daily Memo: Plans for Postwar Gaza, British Naval Power

Keeping peace. The United States is calling on Arab states to join a postwar peacekeeping force in Gaza, according to the Financial Times. Washington hopes the initiative will fill the power vacuum left after the war there ends until a credible Palestinian security apparatus can be formed. Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco are […]

Daily Memo: Israel-Turkey Tensions, India-Iran Port Deal

Israel and Turkey. Israel began returning its diplomats to Turkey earlier this month after withdrawing them last year for “security reasons,” the Middle East Eye reported. Tensions between the...

Immigration Sustains Developed Economies

(click to enlarge) Despite modest growth rates, the global economy is giving some cause for optimism, thanks in part to migration, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development....

Daily Memo: Red Sea Tensions, Russian Reshuffle

Iranian plans. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Yemeni Houthi rebels reportedly plan to attack military bases in Eritrea that supply the U.S. and British with weapons. According...

Daily Memo: Russia Strikes Kharkiv Region, Armenian and Azerbaijani Ministers Meet

Kharkiv assault. Russian forces launched a large assault on the border areas of the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine on Friday. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry called it "an attempt...

Daily Memo: Iran Shores Up Ties, Armenia Withdraws Funds From Russia-led Grouping

Iranian allies. The commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, reportedly visited Lebanon and Iraq in recent weeks. According to local reports, he was in Baghdad last week to...

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