Zbigniew Brzeziński
Zbigniew Brzezinski was the National Security Adviser of President Carter and executive director of the Trilateral Commission. He is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Among his best known works is The Grand Chessboard.

Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment. The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power. But neither is any other major power.
The second verity is (...)

We all know how the first worldwar started. Individual acts of violence cumulatively set in motion irreversible military operations that lackedoverall strategic guidance as well as a larger clarity of purpose. The rest is history: a four year slaughter conducted for the sake of ambitious goals largely formulated ex post facto by the victorious powers.
There is still time to avert a painful repetition, this time exploding in the Middle East, and in Syria specifically. I supported President (...)

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The Vice President
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of The Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Energy
The Director, Office of Management & Budget
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence
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Persian Gulf Security Framework (U)
In my State of the Union Address to the Congress in January 1980, I called special attention to our interests in the Southwest Asia and Persian Gulf region. Furthermore, (...)