One Friedman Unit is equal to six months, specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years.
A Friedman Unit is defined as six months, specifically the next six months, a timeframe that Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, frequently declared to be the most crucial period in the ongoing Iraq War, although these pronouncements dated back more than two and a half years.