“There are 65 active state-based conflicts in the world today, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program … The contest that matters is not understanding any one of them. It is recognizing the 66th — the next emerging theater — while it is still only a collection of weak signals. The war before the war has already begun, and it will be won by whoever learns fastest.”
Read more in The War Before the War Has Already Begun by IPA member Bob Pearson in The Cipher Brief.
Bob is Chairman of the Pearson Advisory Group and a member of the Information Professionals Association.