By Robbin Laird
We have been publishing for several years. This is our 16th year of publication. We started as a single Franco-American website, and now we have three, two in the United States and one in France. A magazine which has been published for many years and is a leading specialized journal edited by our co-founder Murielle Delaporte.
We have branched out into book publishing and our latest book is in fact highlighting our 15 years of publication and honoring our contributors.
In recognition of my friends whose contributions to this venture have been critical over the past 15 years and without whom this venture would not have succeeded we have just released our latest book entitled: The Emergence of the Multi-Polar Authoritarian World: Looking Back from 2024.
In particular, I wish to thank the core group who helped generate the work launching the original website, the Honorable Ed Timperlake, Dr. Kenneth Maxwell, Dr. Richard Weitz, Dr. Harald Malmgren, Secretary Michael Wynne, Brian Morra, Lt. General (Retired) David Deptula, and those who have become major contributors as the journey has continued, notably, Pierre Tran and James Durso, and, of course, the person whose vision created Second Line of Defense in the first place, Murielle Delaporte.
I would wish to thank the U.S. and allied militaries who have and continue to spend significant time with me discussing their approaches, their challenges and the importance of what they do.
It has really been a unique experience in a world of think tanks and large institutions which dominate strategic analysis, we have had our place as well.
We chose a motto when we started publishing which has guided us as we have gone through our first 15 years: As George Patton once said: “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
This has become more significant over time as the mainstream media has now given lemmings a bad name.
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