George Friedman

George FriedmanDubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA," George Friedman's global intelligence company, Stratfor, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover — the startling truth behind America's foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. Stratfor, one of the world's most respected private global intelligence firms, has an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. In America's Secret War, George Friedman identifies the United States' most dangerous enemies, delves into presidential strategies of the last quarter century, and reveals the real reasons behind the attack of 9/11—and the Bush administration's motivation for the war in Iraq. It describes in eye-opening detail America's covert and overt efforts in the global war against terrorism: Not only are U.S. armies in combat on every continent, but since 9/11 the intelligence services of dozens of nations have been operating in close partnership with the CIA. Drawing on Stratfor's vast information-gathering network, Friedman presents an insightful picture of today's world that goes far beyond what is reported on television and in other news media. Al Qaeda's war plans and how they led to 9/11 The threat of a suitcase nuclear bomb in New York and how that changed the course of the war. The deal the U.S. made with Russia and Iran which made the invasion of Afghanistan possible - and how those deals affectthe United States today. How fear and suspicion of the Saudis after 9-11 tore apart the Bush-Saudi relationship and why Saudi Arabia's closest friends in the administration became the Saudi's worst enemies. The real reasons behind George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and how WMD became the cover for a much deeper game. How the CIA miscalculated about Saddam Hussein's and Iran's real plans, leaving the U.S. bogged down in the war. How the w

En su esperado y provocador nuevo libro, George Friedman nos ofrece una lúcida y muy legible previsión de los cambios que podemos esperar en todo el mundo durante el siglo XXI. Nos explica dónde y porqué estallarán las guerras en el futuro, y cómo las nuevas tecnologías y tendencias culturales alterarán la forma en que afrontamos el nuevo siglo. "The Next 100 Years" se basa en una fascinante exploración de la historia y la geopolítica con patrones que se remontan cientos de años. Friedman demuestra que estamos ahora, por primera vez en medio milenio, en los albores de una nueva era incluyendo: • La guerra EE.UU - jihadista se sustituirá por una segunda verdadera guerra fría con Rusia. • China será objeto de una importante crisis interna y México será una emergente potencia mundial. • Una nueva guerra mundial se desarrollará a mediados de siglo entre los Estados Unidos y una inesperada coalición de la Europa del Este, Eurasia y el Lejano Oriente, pero los ejércitos serán mucho menores y las guerras serán menos mortales. • La tecnología se centrará en el espacio para los principales usos militares y un espectacular y nuevo recurso energético tendrá implicaciones radicales sobre el medio ambiente. • Estados Unidos experimentará una Edad de Oro en la segunda mitad del siglo. Escrito con profundo conocimiento y análisis reflexivo, George Friedman, un reconocido experto en geopolítica y pronósticos, presenta un panorama fascinante de lo que nos deparará el futuro próximo.

Pronóstico intrigante y documentado de los acontecimientos que marcarán la economía y la geopolítica mundial en el siglo XXI.A mediados de este siglo el mundo será escenario de una nueva guerra global, esta vez entre Estados Unidos y una hoy aún inesperada coalición formada por la Europa del Este, Eurasia y el Lejano Oriente. Eso sí, los ejércitos serán más reducidos y los efectos menos mortales que en las dos anteriores contiendas mundiales, puesto que en parte los enfrentamientos tendrán lugar en el espacio. Este no es el argumento de una nueva película de ciencia fi cción, sino una de las sólidas previsiones de George Friedman, contenidas en esta obra tan intrigante como lúcida y plenamente documentada.

The next decade. The author of the acclaimed "New York Times "bestseller "The Next 100 Years" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade's leaders. The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade. In "The Next Decade," George Friedman offers readers a pro-vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi-ate future. Using Machiavelli's "The Prince "as a model, Friedman focuses on the world's leaders--particularly the American president--and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world's leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make--and the consequences these actions will have for us all.

The author of "The Future of War" now identifies the United States' most dangerous enemies, delving into everything from presidential strategies of the last quarter century to hidden reasons behind the attack of 9/11 to the true aim of the war in Iraq.

The new book is called The Next Decade. Titles notwithstanding, this book is very different from its predecessor, The Next 100 Years. The last book was about a century, a time frame in which all things are impersonal. A decade is the opposite, because it is filled with individual decisions and uncertainty. It not only requires a very different type of forecasting, it requires the opposite sensibility. In a century, leadership counts for little. In a decade, it counts for a great deal. The book is framed by two concepts. The first is the idea that the United States is an unintended empire of vast power, deeply interlocked with the affairs of most of the world. It is not a question of whether Americans want this empire; it is impossible to let go. The question is what to do with it. Like a child you did not expect and may not have welcomed, it is still your responsibility. The second concept is what I call the Machiavellian Presidency. I consider three presidents exemplary: Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan. Each possessed a deep moral core. Each fully understood the uses of power, lying and violating the Constitution and human rights to achieve the respective moral necessities of the abolition of slavery, the destruction of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and the destruction of the Soviet Union. When we recall that Roosevelt allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler, we capture the Machiavellian President. The United States has stumbled into empire. It now faces the crisis of Rome that the empire will annihilate the republic. I argue that of all the institutions of our Constitution, it is the president who can preserve the republic while managing the empire. I also argue that the greatest threat to the republic is living in denial about what the United States has become. The issue, then, is how to manage the unintended and unwanted in the next decade.

En un siglo cuentan los acontecimientos; en un decenio, las personas y sus decisiones.La próxima decada será escenario de grandes cambios que darán forma al siglo XXI. Las guerras en el mundo islámico perderan fuerza y aprenderemos a convivir con el terrorismo. China entrara en crisis, mientras el mundo pasara de un periodo dominado por las debacles financieras a otro dominado por la escasez del empleo. Turquia sera potencia dominante en Oriente Medio y, en el Mediterraneo, Polonia hara frente a una nueva Rusia, al tiempo que dentro de las fronteras de la Union Europea se viviran tensiones extraordinarias… Estos son algunos de los documentados pronosticos del autor de Los proximos cien años, George Friedman, para este decenio.

A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists.In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR-the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm-focuses on what he knows best, the future. Positing that civilization is at the dawn of a new era, he offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century all based on his own thorough analysis and research. For example, The U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; China's role as a world power will diminish; Mexico will become an important force on the geopolitical stage; and new technologies and cultural trends will radically alter the way we live (and fight wars). Riveting reading from first to last, The Next 100 Years is a fascinating exploration of what the future holds for all of us.