The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

by George Friedman

The problem I lay out in this book is the loss of confidence in experts among the public.

Jefferson foresaw that whoever controlled Louisiana would likely be the most powerful nation in the world. He proved to be right.

New technologies like iron and gunpowder might have been novel, but given the number of Europeans and their inability to understand the terrain, it was not surprising that the Iroquois and other natives not only didn’t crumble but tended to defeat the Europeans in most early hostile encounters.