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Supply Chains and a Novel Path to Conflict

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Though “supply chain” became a household term only in the past generation, it has been around since humans have been engaging in commerce. One...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Thinking About This Moment

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My job is to write, and my goal in writing is to put things in perspective. The world has been to me an endlessly...

The Coronavirus Closes Borders

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The border between the United States and Canada has been closed. I don’t recall that ever happening before; I’m not sure what it is...

The Calculated Risk of the Coronavirus

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We live in a world filled with risks, some large and some small. When we step off the sidewalk to cross the street as...

Modeling the US Reaction to the Coronavirus

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The United States is under enormous pressure. The nature of the particular pressure is unique, though pressure on the United States from various forces...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Whatever Happened to Brexit?

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The planet has reached an extraordinary moment of unity. The overriding focus is on the coronavirus and the radical restructuring of our lives and...

Quarantine and the Supply Chain

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The global medical community appears to have devised a strategy for mitigating the coronavirus that depends largely on quarantine, or limiting contact among the...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Compromising on Corona

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Battling the coronavirus is essential. But the battle has costs, which are invariably measured against the gain. “No matter what the cost” – the...

Oil Prices

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Since before World War I and throughout the 1970s, the people who controlled oil had a lever for controlling others. Since the 1980s, the...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: The Next President Will Be Over 70

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Perhaps the most important thing that has emerged in the presidential election campaign over the past few weeks is that the next president of...

Thoughts on the Coronavirus

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I have presented geopolitics to be like economics, a science that predicts and summarizes the impersonal forces that drive a system so vast as...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: The Origin and Future of a Book

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My new book has finally been published. Of all the books I have written, this one took the longest. I conceived the principles around...
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