Reversing U.S. geopolitical decline: To win is to change, and in many ways

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Reversing U.S. geopolitical decline: To win is to change, and in many ways

Special to WorldTribune.com Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight. Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Chill winds are […]

Eight strategic factors bearing on 2012, the year of ‘Great Power Impotence’

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Eight strategic factors bearing on 2012, the year of ‘Great Power Impotence’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley and Yossef Bodansky, Global Information System Rarely in the past six decades has global context counted for as much in strategic forecasting trend analysis as it does at the dawn of 2012. Reliance on stove-piped analysis of strategic sectors such as economic and financial issues, security issues, politics, geopolitics, […]

GOP presidential foreign policy debate ducked the questions that mattered most

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GOP presidential foreign policy debate ducked the questions that mattered most

Lev Navrozov On Nov. 22, I watched a televised Republican presidential primary debate on U.S. national security and foreign policy. Symbolically, it took place at the historic Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., and was hosted by CNN, in partnership with The Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, and moderated by Wolf Blitzer. It has been […]