Bold Ideas 2010: A new initiative for the new decade.  The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is pleased to announce Bold Ideas 2010, an Institute-wide effort aimed at “seeing around the corners” and identifying top challenges to our national security in the decade ahead. At our year-end meeting in December, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies CEO Mike Swetnam challenged us to be proactive in such an effort. From this challenge, Bold Ideas 2010 was born: an initiative envisioned as a follow-up to the Bold Ideas 2000 campaign that proved prescient on many fronts. Back then, our scholars predicted that the element of surprise and use of unconventional tactics would become key weapons of America?s adversaries, and called for a US national security policy that responds to those threats. The challenge is no less pressing today, and in the months ahead we will be marshalling our resources to forecast the risks we face, and identify the ways in which we as a nation must optimize our response. Look for more news under the Bold Ideas 2010 banner…as we contribute to this critical effort.