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'' in the 1980s. In July 2002, Murawiec gave a presentation regarding Middle East policy for the USA before the Defence Policy Board Advisory Committee. Murawiec argued that "''In the Arab world, violence is not a continuation of politics by other means – violence is politics, politics is violence''"The PowerPoint That Rocked the Pentagon The LaRouche defector who's advising the defense establishment on Saudi Arabia
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'' and calling for an "''ultimatum to the House of Saud''", ultimately summarising the "Grand strategy for the Middle East" as "''Iraq is the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot, Egypt the prize''". The presentation was made public by Thomas E. Ricks the following month.Briefing Depicted Saudis as Enemies Ultimatum Urged To Pentagon Board
by Thomas E. Ricks, ''Washington Post'', 6 August 2002 Murawiec was subsequently expelled from RAND. Murawiec died of

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on 7 October 2009.Laurent Murawiec est mort

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Works

* ''La Guerre au XXIè siècle'', Laurent Murawiec, Odile Jacob, 2000 * ''L'Esprit des Nations: cultures et géopolitique'', Laurent Murawiec, Odile Jacob, 2002 * ''La Guerre d'après'', Laurent Murawiec, Albin Michel, 2003 ** ''Princes of Darkness: the Saudi Assault on the West'', Laurent Murawiec, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 * ''Vulnerabilities in the Chinese Way of War'', Hudson Institute, 2004 * ''Aristotle in Cyberspace: Toward a Theory of Information Warfare and The Mind of Jihad'', 2005 * ''Pandora's Boxes'' *''The Mind of Jihad'', Laurent Murawiec, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Spring 2000 article "The Wacky World of French Intellectuals" by Laurent Murawiec, Middle East Quarterly

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