The Decision Advantage

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.

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast. Stratfor Chief Security Officer and host, Fred Burton, catches up on what may change between the U.S. and North Korea in 2020 from Stratfor Asia Pacific analyst, Evan Rees.

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor analysts Fred Burton and Ryan Bohl discuss how the Iranian proxy theater develops and Iranian proxies still active in the region and watching to see how the Iranian nuclear program develops.

In this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton and Emily Hawthorne decipher clues to Iran's likely next move to the U.S. killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor’s Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne explains the evolving relationship between the United States adn Saudi Arabia and how Iran will play betwen both countries in 2020.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor’s Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne explains the evolving relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia and how Iran will play between both countries in 2020.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor’s Asia Pacific Analyst Evan Rees breaks down what’s at stake in the ongoing trade dispute between South Korea and Japan.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor’s Asia Pacific Analyst Evan Rees breaks down what’s at stake in the ongoing trade dispute between South Korea and Japan.

In Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Middle East adn North Africa Analyst, Ryan Boh,l forecasts Turkey's major military and political plays in 2020.