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This book is fascinating for its analysis of the twentieth century through the lens of geopolitics, which is also explained well as a political tool. It is less interesting in its stated purpose, a prediction of the future - while Friedman makes a convincing case that demographic, geographic, and geopolitical realities on the ground more often than not lend inevitability to the broad strokes of history, he spends a great deal of time talking about specifics that are, by his own admission, impossible to predict. I think if Friedman had avoided the frivolous exercise of war-gaming the mid-twenty-first century conflict he predicts down to absurd detail, he would have better held my attention until the end.