[Air-l] Stratfor online

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

This is an interesting piece on how people other than peace activists
are using the internet in this period. The article doesn't highlight the
impact of the Internet on Stratfor, but from my experience, it has been
its web presence that has had the greatest impact in its diffusion.

http://webreprints.djreprints.com/707830853467.html

March 14, 2003 Dow Jones WebReprint Service(r)      

How Wall Street Now Acquires
Intelligence on the War Scene 
By SUSAN PULLIAM 
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

AUSTIN, Texas - George Friedman stands with three young analysts in
front of a 10-foot map of Iraq tacked on the wall of the downtown
offices of his intelligence firm. Talk quickly turns to sandstorms in
the Iraqi desert.

"Check for me the earliest in April that the sandstorms can start," Mr.
Friedman says to one of the analysts here at Strategic Forecasting Inc.,
or Stratfor, which analyzes geopolitical events for private clients.
Then he hurries down the hall to begin preparing for a conference call
with 11 energy traders, hedge funds and Wall Street analysts. The
callers are eager to know Mr. Friedman's opinion on whether there will
be a war with Iraq and when it will begin.


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