Bob has substantial knowledge of the greater number of 195 sovereign states and self governing territories around the world, inclusive of how they interface with today’s tensions, both between East and West, North and South, and the current issues regarding Al Quaeduma, ISIS and the more recently make public White Nationalism and QAnon notions, also as 'bound up and/or projected' by Donald Trump and/or
He also has direct or indirect access to many of the Leaders of these states, else wise to staff or other key and/or influential persons who either ARE the so-called 'shakers and movers' of those societies, else wise have access to same.
Some examples of how Bob has applied his evolving knowledge through the years are as follows:
- Bob's knowledge of the on-going so-called 'Arab Spring,' with its sometimes democratic and quasi pro-western orientation, but not always, as carried on in an e-mail presentation known as 'The Geopolitical Bunch' for several months in 2011.
- Bob's understanding of the world's Nuclear Power challenges in the wake of the Fukushima, Japan disaster in March of 2011 vis a vis his Op Ed in the Albuquerque Journal on 26 March, 2011.
- Bob's understanding of the dynamics of the Middle East in his Letter to President George W Bush of 7 March, 2007, pursuant to Condoleeza Rice's convening of the 'Neighbor's Meeting' in Baghdad, involving Iraq, Syria, Iran and the 5 Permanent Members of the United Nations.
- Bob’s knowledge of the Iraq II War, and recommendations to President George W Bush in his letter to the President dated 24 November, 2006, regardinghow he could redeem himself and the country, largely agreeing with and preceding the publishing of the Iraq Study Group results by 5 days.
- Bob’s understanding of and recommendations to President George Herbert Walker Bush regarding the Lebanese hostage crises in 1989, resulting in the President's forwarding of same to the then Department of State Desk Officer for that country, David G. Newton.
- Bob’s understanding of the hierarchy of the then 3rd world current and prospectively soon to be nuclear powers in June, 1981, as evidenced by the paper he wrote for a graduate seminar in international relations prioritizing Iraq as second behind Israel as ‘most likely to “lob a nuc”’ over the next 10 year period of time, then handing it into his professor 3 days before Israeli jets flew in to Baghdad and destroyed the Osiriak reactor there.
- Bob’s proposal to President Ronald Reagan for an OPEC price rollback accompanied by a format for Palestinian Self Determination on the West Bank and/or Gaza Strip in the spring of 1981.
- Bob’s largely developed outline for a rescue plan for the American hostages in Tehran in 1980, and
- Bob’s predictions regarding the up and coming Iranian Revolution through a letter to President Jimmy Carter, 18 December, 1978.
