George Friedman on The Gallup Podcast: Will the 2020s Be a ‘Storm’ That Leads to ‘Calm’ in the U.S.?

How cyclical are U.S. events and history? GPF Chairman and Gallup Senior Adviser George Friedman discusses his new book, "The Storm Before the Calm." Pointing to key moments in history, Friedman argues that the country cyclically finds itself in a state of crisis every 80 years -- and that these moments are drivers of major change as the U.S. "reinvents itself, in a form both faithful to its founding and radically different from what it had been."

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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.