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From the Desk of George Friedman

Know Your Enemy

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The most important thing in poker is knowing who you are playing against. You need to know his weakness – not all of them, mind you, but an appropriately fatal one. For poker is a complex game, one so requiring a vastness of human talent that you have to assume your opponent’s strengths are many. […]

America’s Iran Strategy

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President Barack Obama’s administration had a primary goal in the Middle East: It did not want Iran to become a nuclear power. It did...

Texas Weather

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Somewhere I heard the saying that climate is what you expect, and weather is what you get. I live in Texas and we certainly...

Speculating on China and Cuba

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From a military standpoint, China is in a difficult position. It is a trading power and needs access to the global oceans. Its significant...

The Crisis of the Medical Establishment

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It has been about a year since the world entered a medical crisis for which there had been no cure. For much of the...

Biden’s First Middle East Moves

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Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden took two steps in the Middle East. The first was that he notified Congress of his intention to...

The Importance of Key West

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I am writing this from Key West in Florida because after a year my wife decided I needed to get out of the house...

The Institutionalization of Crises

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About a year after the COVID-19 pandemic introduced its new rules of survival, my wife and I risked life and limb for the chance...

The Origins of the Public and Private

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Last week, I wrote a piece about the virtues of private life and its centrality to the good life. I want to go deeper...

Biden’s ‘Reversals’

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Just about every U.S. president promises a new era of U.S. foreign policy. George W. Bush promised to abolish nation building as a goal....

In Praise of Private Life

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Joe Biden has been inaugurated as president of the United States, and Donald Trump has taken the traditional flight home. Many are incensed by...

Obama, Trump and Biden: Consistency in Foreign Policy

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U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and...
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