STRATFOR analyst talks intel to Team Eglin

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  • By Staff Sgt. Stacia Zachary
  • Team Eglin Public Affairs
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. --  Dr. George Friedman, Strategic Forecasting founder and CEO, will present a seminar based on his latest book, "The Next 100 Years - A FORECAST for the 21st Century" Feb. 10. The event hosted by The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate Revolutionary Technology Team and the Air Armament Academy will be from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Eglin Conference Center across from the bowling alley. 

Dr. Friedman will discuss what he foresees as the top issues in the international arena and how he uses trends as indicators to advise on potential future situations. The STRATFOR analyst will introduce his "forecasting techniques" and show how he applies them to given situation to map out future events. Key topics of discussion are technological advances to come from the current Global War on Terror, population trends and geopolitical forecasting. 

A professor of political science for almost 20 years, Dr. Friedman was an early designer of computerized war games. While working in academics, he briefed military and political leadership including senior commanders in all armed services, the U.S. Army War College, National Defense University and the RAND Corporation on security and national defense matters. 

In 1994, Dr. Friedman founded the Center for Geopolitical Studies at Louisiana State University, which engages in integrated economic, political and military modeling and forecasting and was the only non-DOD/non-governmental organization granted access to Joint Theater Level Simulation by the Joint Warfighting Center. Dr. Friedman also hosts the Web site http://www.stratfor.com/frontpage.  

To register for the seminar, sign up online at the A3 Web site at https://afkm.wpafb.af.mil/ASPs/Reg/Register.asp?Filter=OO-ED-AA-A2&Eventid=191&Groupid=245&Class=81973&TypeName=Class.