About Harlan Ullman

Autor a multiple cărți politice. un lider global de gândire și un strateg inovativ.

The battle of the Mr. Cools

If the situation in Ukraine were not so dire for the Ukrainian people, what a parody this could be.  Facing off are two Mr. Cools.  In the eastern corner is President Vlad Putin emulating tough guy actor Humphrey Bogart but in a smaller version of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscular body.  Whether Vlad thinks he is Peter the Great, Nicholas II (the last of the Romanov line) or Mikhail Gorbachev (who imploded the Soviet Union), his bare chested he-man style is surely good for the Russian soul. In the western corner is President Barry Obama whose studied intellectual aloofness is meant to confound his adversary.  Still keen on leading from behind after [...]

By |2014-05-02T11:12:36+03:0025 aprilie 2014|Blog, Europa/Rusia, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Regiuni, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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John Kerry’s determination

The current buzz in Washington’s bazaars is questioning whether the peripatetic Secretary of State John Kerry is determined or delusional in his multi-faceted quest to solve among the most intractable of global conflicts.  Some see Kerry as a 21st century Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Except, these windmills can bite back.  Others applaud his doggedness and courage to persist.   So far, a dozen trips to the Middle East to broker a deal between Palestinians and Israel have not achieved that outcome.  Russian help in removing Bashar al Assad’s chemical weapons from Syria was indeed a welcome and positive step.  But the Syrian civil war grows no closer to ending [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:15+02:009 aprilie 2014|America, Blog, Guvernare globala, Harlan Ullman, Regiuni, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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My fellow citizens

President Barack Obama gained great notoriety with brilliant speeches in Berlin during his first run for office and in Cairo after his 2008 election.  Since then, like the absence of real strategic thinking by his administration regarding foreign policy, this great rhetoric has been missing in action.  With Russia’s takeover of Crimea and the prospects for a new cold or at least cool war non-trivial, the time for a great speech is at hand.   What might the president say?  In summary terms, he might lay out a vision for the future.  The central theme for this vision is what to do post-Crimea.  In that regard, the president must focus [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:16+02:006 aprilie 2014|Blog, Guvernare globala, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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Geopolitics 101: History Matters

As President Vladimir Putin moves to consolidate Russian autonomy over Crimea with a referendum, the West continues to struggle to find acceptable policies to reverse or punish this encroachment.  Short of a military response that would be profoundly reckless and exceedingly dangerous, in these policy deliberations by the West led by Washington, history seems to be missing in action. Sometimes history matters.   In the late 1960’s, NATO faced several crises with the Soviet Union.  The Soviet Union had embarked on a major rearmament program for both its nuclear and conventional forces that challenged the strategy of nuclear retaliation anchoring NATO’s defense.  In 1968, after the Prague Spring broke out, [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:20+02:0018 martie 2014|Analize si studii, Blog, Europa/Rusia, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Regiuni, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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NATO’s strategic ace: Vladimir Putin

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was on the road to irrelevance. The most successful military alliance in history has lacked a real enemy since the Soviet Union disintegrated a quarter of a century ago.  After a dozen years of war in Afghanistan,  NATO’s role is coming to an ignominious end. Because of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s refusal to sign a Basic Security Agreement (BSA), NATO is now forced to plan for the withdraw of all of its military forces by the end of 2014.  Without substantial coalition forces and, as important, the money and aid Afghanistan receives because of that presence, the Karzai government will be unable to prevent [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:20+02:004 martie 2014|Analize si studii, Apărare / Securitate Naţională, Blog, Guvernare globala, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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