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 through analysis and rese…
The thoughts we express in this book are informed by our service in the pentagon during the first term of the Clinton administration and with the reflection of a year of distance from the fray.
I had wanted to write a book about Australia in the twenty first century so as to write about the Australia I liked, or perhaps wanted. I hoped, too, that Australia would be more successful in the next century than it had managed to be in this one. The twentieth century had been America's, not just in the sense that the United States became a dominanta power during it but because the style of t…