About the book: 2016 / Geopolitical operational analytics by Konstantin Cheremnykh is distinguished by its documentary richness and depth. The leading analyst of the well-known in Russia “Izborsky Club” believes that the self-liquidation of the world authority of the United States is now taking place as a result of the conflict of American clans - “interest groups”, the spreading of the “grids” of America’s strategic apparatus, as well as the fierce resistance of “target civilizations”. Analyzing this process, which is dynamically unfolding in the space from Hong Kong to Ukraine, from the Caspian Sea to the Caribbean region, the author builds a disappointing forecast: continuing to slide along the road describing a downward spiral, the world, after grueling campaigns in Syria and then in Libya, will slide - if the strong will not realize this world - for the third and last world war, for which the battlefield is being prepared in the heart of Central Asia - Afghanistan.