Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.