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A powerful new lens for understanding geopolitics, strategy, and the future of national security.
Geopolitical Strategist • Bestselling Author • Former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer
A powerful new lens for understanding geopolitics, strategy, and the future of national security.
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Dr. Jake Sotiriadis is a global strategist, geopolitical expert, and keynote speaker who helps leaders understand the forces reshaping power, security, technology, and the future.
He is the bestselling author of The Revenge of Ideology: The Hidden Forces Reshaping Global Power, a provocative examination of how ideology is transforming international competition and the global order.
During a 21-year career as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, Jake served in senior assignments at the Pentagon, National Security Agency, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Embassy Berlin. He founded the Air Force’s Strategic Foresight and Futures Team and later established the Center for Futures Intelligence at the National Intelligence University.
Today, Jake works with organizations around the world to move beyond conventional forecasting, identify emerging strategic shifts, and make better decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
A private geopolitical breakfast experience before the meetings begin. Washington moves fast. These executive breakfasts provide a focused, nonpartisan, and candid geopolitical perspective on the issues shaping today’s world—giving you the context, clarity, and strategic insight you need.
Jake Sotiriadis brings together:
Most approaches to the future focus on what might happen. Jake Sotiriadis focuses on what to do next.
With over two decades in intelligence and national security—at the Pentagon, U.S. embassies, and alongside senior decision-makers—he brings a practitioner’s lens to geopolitics, emerging technology, and strategic risk.
He doesn’t predict the future. He translates it into decisions.
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With a Foreword by ADM (ret.) James Stavridis, USN, 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
Why do smart nations make stupid decisions?
Why did America—with the best intelligence in the world—spend $4 trillion on unwinnable wars? Why is Russia destroying its economy for Ukraine? Why did China erase $1 trillion of its own tech wealth? Why is NATO ally Turkey buying Russian weapons?
They’re not irrational. They’re trapped.
In The Revenge of Ideology, a groundbreaking look from inside America’s intelligence establishment, you’ll discover the invisible force driving today’s geopolitical chaos: Ideological Power Networks. These living systems hijack how entire nations understand reality, turning self-destruction into strategy.
From Beijing’s Neo-Confucian Communism to Moscow’s Neo-Eurasian Imperialism to Ankara’s Neo-Turkic Autonomy, these networks are quietly remaking the global order. They seduce populations, capture elites, and drive them toward mistaking strategic folly for victory. But the terrifying truth is that democracy offers no immunity. America fell into the same trap after 9/11, when ideology overwhelmed intelligence and led to two decades of strategic failure.
This is the missing piece of modern geopolitics—the fresh framework for understanding great power competition and national security that explains why allies become adversaries overnight, why nations choose ideology over prosperity, and why every “shocking” crisis was actually predictable all along.
Developed by Jake Sotiriadis, the former Air Force intelligence officer who taught the Pentagon and Intelligence Community how to think about the future. This insider framework, crafted while training senior military and intelligence leaders, will change how you read the news, assess risk, and anticipate what happens next.
Essential reading for policymakers, executives, investors, and anyone who needs to understand the hidden forces driving today’s global instability.
“Jake Sotiriadis has given us a new lens through which to view an increasingly chaotic world. More importantly, he's shown us that what looks like chaos often has an underlying logic—we just need to know where to look for it.”
— ADM (ret.) James Stavridis, 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
“A timely, sharp, and essential analysis of the hidden forces reshaping global politics—Jake Sotiriadis has written a book Europe cannot ignore.”
— Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy
“Strategic, insightful, and essential reading for decision-makers navigating today’s complex security landscape.”
— General (ret.) Timothy Haugh, former Director of the National Security Agency
Whether for a keynote, executive briefing, or private workshop, Jake delivers insights that help leaders navigate complexity and act with confidence.