The Decision Advantage

In this episode of RANE's Pen and Sword Podcast, Scott Stewart and Fred Burton discuss COVID-19 and working from home. We recommend that employees be educated about the wide array of phishing schemes seeking to capitalize on COVID-19. Employees should also be advised about business email compromise, sometimes referred to as "CEO scams" or "president scams," a growing risk as more business is condu...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, host Fred Burton discusses with RANE Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna where COVID-19 fits into Israel's security planning.

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks with Greg Priddy. Priddy directs RANE's Global Energy and Middle East coverage. They discuss the stand-off between Russia and Saudi Arabia over oil production and pricing as global demand falls from the coronavirus pandemic.

In this episode of RANE's Pen And Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to tracy Walder, the author of THE UNEXPECTED SPY. From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists. Walder was recruited into the CIA from college. She served on several high profile counterterrorism efforts against Al Qaeda during the Iraq War. Later, she joined the FBI. Wald...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, RANE analysts Ryan Bohl and Ben West discuss Covid-19 as both a global and local phenomenon. It is important to track global trends to see where (and how) the disease is being contained vs. where it is spreading and/or accelerating. But individuals are more likely to be affected by responses from local trends - and should be monitoring local...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, analysts Ryan Bohl and Sim Tack discuss Idlib, Syria. The Syrian government's offensive against rebel forces in Idlib province carries significant risks for Turkey and Russia.

In this episode of the RANE's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Chief Security Officer Fred Burton discusses with RANE's Middle East and North Africa Analyst, Emily Hawthorne, the latest news on the situation in Iran. The Covid-19 virus is burdening an economy already struggling under U.S. sanctions and near neighbors - indeed, the world - are watching how Iran manages this health crisis, especially...

In this episode of the RANE podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Greg Priddy, who directs RANE's analysis of energy and the Middle East. An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's nuclear program is likely to show progress on breakout time for making a single nuclear weapon. But is that the only thing the world is watching for? 

In this episode of the RANE Essential Geopolitics podcast, RANE's Ryan Bohl is in the host seat. He discusses with RANE Senior Europe Analyst, Adriano Bosoni, whether the coronavirus will affect Italy's economy and the larger economic and trade situation in the EU. 

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna about militancy in the Sahel region of Africa. According to Stratfor Worldview, the area is plagued by increasingly frequent, widespread and deadly militant attacks in recent years.

In this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword Podcast, Stratfor Chief Security Officer and host, Fred Burton, speaks with Yudhijit Bhattacharje, author of The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A DYSLEXIC TRAITOR, AN UNBREAKABLE CODE, AND THE FBI’S HUNT FOR AMERICA’S STOLEN SECRETS. Bhattacharje discovered the details on a reporting trip to the FBI Lab, where he met a cryptanalyst who shared the details of t...

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Stratfor Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna about Hezbollah, the strongest non-state actors in the world, and Iran's strongest proxy in the Middle East.

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential geopolitics podcast, Stratfor Chief Security officer, Fred Burton speaks with Thomas Abi-Hanna, a global security analyst at Stratfor. The discussion centers on the known and unknown variables that could derail the latest effort toward a peace deal. Those include regional players, a fractured Taliban and a fractured Afghanistan government.

In this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword podcast, host and Chief Security Officer for Stratfor, Fred Burton, speaks to Brigadier General Robert Spalding, USAF, Retired. Spalding has written "Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept," about how China has been working under the radar to "destroy the rights and systems crucial to American livelihood for decades." Spalding's w...

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Stratfor Middle East and North Africa analyst, Ryan Bohl about the U.S. Middle east Peace plan. Bohl says the plan could embolden Israel to annex more land which could in turn bring retaliation from other nations the region, and create new regional alliances that are potentially less strategically beneficial to...

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks with Senior Military Analyst Omar Lamrani. They discuss some reasons why the United States military may find itself overextended in the global theater and why that matters to a geopolitical great power competition.

In this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, hosted by Fred Burton, a conversation with Don Bentley. Bentley is the author of "Without Sanction," a Matt Drake Thriller. Writing is not Bentley's only career. As he tells Stratfor's Fred Burton, he also was an Apache Helicopter pilot and an FBI agent, and his first three books were rejected. In this action-packed thriller, Defense Intelligenc...

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor analysts Fred Burton and Stephen Rakowski discuss what 2020 holds in store for South Africa - from its political leaders to its economy and people.

In this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, host and Chief Security Officer, Fred Burton speaks with Stratfor V.P. of Tactical Analysis, Scott Stewart about the latest activity of Mexico's drug cartels. Mexico's proximity to illicit U.S. markets has resulted in the rapid growth of extremely violent criminal enterprises. Crime and violence take a huge toll on Mexico's citizens and economy....

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, host and Chief Security Officer, Fred Burton, speaks to Stratfor Global Security Analyst Ben West about the Wuhan Corona Virus. On January 22, 2020, Chinese officials quarantined the city and slowed travel into and out of the city. But will it be enough to slow the virus' spread during the Lunar New Year Celebrations?

In this episode of Stratfor’s essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor Senior Europe Analyst explains to Stratfor Chief Security Officer, Fred Burton, that while Brexit may be done by January 31, 2020, negotiations between the UK and the EU over trade will continue.

In this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, Stratfor Chief Security Officer and host, Fred Burton, speaks to Kate Winkler Dawson about her latest book, American Sherlock. This is the story of Edward Oscar Heinrich, and how he pioneered forensics starting in about 1910. A fascinating, complex personality  who had an uncanny ability to find clues, build evidence and solve crimes. "He was th...

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Stratfor’s Global Security Analyst, Ben West about the novel coronavirus that appears to have started in a Wuhan, China, market. West says that if this spreads to infect large portions of the population in provinces outside of Hubei, namely in major export/commercial hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou an...

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast, Senior Analyst Matthew Bey discusses the United States' grievances with the WTO.

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Chief Security Officer Fred Burton speaks to Global Analyst Sim Tack about Russia's government reshuffle. It's more than a power play, it is setting the stage for a much broader effort in the coming years to install a reliable post-Putin political culture.