The Decision Advantage

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 writing details ways in which China undermines democracy from within and encourages the U.S. to combat the stealth war.

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 the U.S.

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 Intelligence Agent Matt Drake is a haunted man, scarred by a violent and deadly experience in Syria. His marriage is in jeopardy, and his old life is tantalizingly out of reach. But then, he gets a call for a mission and he heads back to Syria on a rescue mission.

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 and Hong Kong, there will be restrictions. If restrictions there are similar to those imposed in Hubei Province, it will only exacerbate the economic impacts and business continuity concerns in China.

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. Corruption and impunity have permitted the cartels to become powerful and to operate brazenly. In 2019, there was a uptick in cross-border violence from the cartels. In this podcast, Burton and Stewart discuss the outlook for 2020.

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 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 this incredible forensic scientist who solved all of these crazy, insane cases," says the author.

"I've always been really interested in the history of forensics. And I felt like I really wanted to dig into what is right with forensics and what is wrong. There's plenty of both, both now and back when it started," Dawson says.

Based on years of research and, according to Dawson, one of the largest personal archives with more than 100 boxes of previously uncatalogued content ranging from diaries to notes on investigations.