Reddit reviews The Coming War With Japan

George Friedman is terrible at East Asian geopolitics. Absolutely terrible.

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In his 1991 book that he published/authored, entitlted: "The Coming War with Japan", available on Amazon with a measley 3 star rating, he predicts US will go to war with Japan in the future. The guy has been wrong for 27 years and counting!

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He doubled down on Japan by predicting in the next 100 year's book that Japan will be the Leader of Asia, and China/India somehow disappears from relevance from internal upheaval. A fiction sci-fi American nationalistic narrative.

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What a complete farce.

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Still waiting on our "coming war with Japan."

> According to Stratfor's prediction

I'll be honest, Russia's current Federal structure isn't exactly a rock of stability, but a total USSR or Yugoslavia-style breakup/meltdown is a long-shot at best (worst). Besides, I wouldn't trust anything from Stratfor farther than I can throw George Friedman.

George Friedman's projections on Eastern Europe and Russia is spot on (likely because he is of Polish descent).

However, his projections and analysis on East Asian affairs leaves much to be desired.

Check out George Friedman's book published in 1991 called: The Coming War With Japan It's been 27 years, and his projections is completely off the mark, since US and Japan has not gone to war, and Japan remains a steadfast US ally.

Take what George Friedman says in The Next 100 years with a grain of salt, he predicts China and India to somehow magically disappear while Japan becomes the Leader of Asia.

If you want sheer awesomeness in the "failed predictions" genre, you can't go wrong with this.

Friedman has always had a boner for Japan for some reason.

Russia will become irrelevant, it's time is over as a global power.

Population is important, but geography is the name of the game. He does make some unorthodox prediction through the book, but I think he was completely right with Russia. It was pretty obvious if you were looking for it.

ROFL at the George Friedman links. I think I'll pass. It's imprudent to learn geopolitics from a self-promoting moron. Here's another Friedman classic

George Friedman's book "The Coming War with Japan" that forecasted the Japan-US war in 1991 still has not come to fruition.

He should leave Kaplan to do East Asian forecasting, Friedman's strengths lies in Eastern Europe, not Asia...

I mean, he did write this in 1991, claiming that war with Japan was inevitable within the next 20 years. I don't think "crank" is too unjustified.

I think that's a great argument for the rising importance and power of Poland. But his simultaneous argument that the EU is inevitably going to fail in the face of nationalism seems to gloss over the mammoth amount of thought every architect of the EU has given to exactly this problem. It's a huge obstacle to overcome, no doubt; but simply pointing to it doesn't make it insurmountable.

Let's just hope he's as wrong about this as he was when he predicted war between Japan and the US during the 90s.

The Coming War with Japan

> but like it or not an age of war is coming

Every age is an age of war. Absent technology that neutralizes fission and fusion, mass deployment of conventional forces between major powers seems unlikely. Best leave the predictions to the experts.

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> we will need them to drive trucks, push paper, and support logistics to free up bodies.

The US could easily draft a force of 15+ million men without resorting to children, the elderly, or women. How many shitty little proxy wars do we need to fight? Women are more expensive and less expendable.


Every woman employed in almost any military capacity represents a reduction in potential combat power.

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> ... the value in trained women as Intel officers...

This is the only solid point in in any of your posts. But I don't think anyone here would dispute that women have been extremely useful in intelligence gathering.

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> bunch of edgelords

Am I wasting time arguing with an entryist?

And almost as good as this guy.

Cum ar fi predictia asta. Stratfor mi se pare mie sau cele mai multe ori, e ultima soluție.

> Omul asta e unul dintre cei mai capabili din lume sa faca predictii. A scris si o carte foarte interesanta

Cum ar fi predictia asta. Stratfor mi se pare o sursa de propaganda cu o agenda proprie foarte pro-americana, asa ca incerc sa-i evit pe cat posibil sau sa fiu foarte sceptic la orice debiteaza.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-War-With-Japan/dp/0312058365

Rubbish

>The Russians are not, I think, trying to recreate the Russian empire. They want a sphere of influence, which is a very different thing.

Ah yes, they don't want to conquer, but they do want to tell Ukraine when and with whom it can do trade with and have alliances with lol. "She is not my girlfriend, but she is also not allowed to date any one else"

>For Russia, Ukraine is a matter of fundamental national security. For a Western power, Ukraine is of value only if that power is planning to engage and defeat Russia

Ridiculous.

Why is it that Sweden and Norway would never attack each other? They have no reason to, they both share the same values. Democracies have never attacked each other. Expansion of democracy and free trade will only make both sides safer and more wealthy.

Meanwhile Russia is run by a defacto dictator KGB crook who is dead set on having a pet state to bring under his wing for Russia.

>For a Western power, Ukraine is of value only if that power is planning to engage and defeat Russia

Just obscene, this is blatant propaganda, you should be ashamed of yourself, this is the most vulgar thing I've ever seen on Reddit.

Also, the author of that article was also the clown that predicted a war between the United States and Japan in the mid 1990s

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-War-With-Japan/dp/0312058365