The Decision Advantage

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 as it plans for an influx of religious tourism.

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 the unusual spy case. The "thrilling, true-life account of the FBI’s hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan" began just before 9/11/2001, so his story was largely untold until Bhattacharje's book. The author tells Regan's tale - that of a disgruntled employee, a series of brilliant yet bungled attempts to betray his country and a diligent effort to uncover his villainy - in a way that reveals not just Regan's psychology but the pernicious world of espionage at the turn of the 21st century.

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 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.