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Saturday, February 5, 2011

The New Rules: War-Gaming Egypt's Future By: Thomas P.M. Barnett | Column

The New Rules: War-Gaming Egypt's Future

By: Thomas P.M. Barnett | Column
Over the weekend, Wikistrat -- a technology start-up for which I serve as chief analyst -- gathered a group of Israeli and U.S. geostrategists, myself included, to take part in an online scenario-generating drill in response to the ongoing protests in Egypt. Our goal was to devise four feasible pathway trees along which events could develop, and to harness the Web 2.0's wisdom of the crowd for strategic forecasting.

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