The Pentagon's New Map: seeing the world as it is

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THE GRAND STRATEGY: The Pentagon's New Map (Esquire, March 2003)

The Map: The Core and the Gap

The Flows: Global Transaction Strategy (Transformation Trends, 16 Dec 2002)

The Essentials: The Pentagon's New Map (Esquire, March 2003)

The Dialectic: Mr. President, Here's How To Make Sense Of Our Iraq Strategy (Esquire, June 2004)

The State of the World: (Esquire, May 2007)

Thomas P.M. Barnett on Hugh Hewitt's radio show
[Audio] [Transcript]

[TPMB and HH discuss Great Powers]

View "The Brief": [YouTube (Oct 2004)] [C-SPAN]

1. BACKGROUND TO DRAWING THE MAP: Barbie and Globalization ("disconnectedness defines danger")

2. DRAWING THE MAP: The Core and the Gap ("shrink the gap")

3. SOLVING THE PROBLEM A-to-Z: WMD and Empire ("rule-set reset")

"The Brief": At The Pentagon, Quirky PowerPoint Carries Big Punch (Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2004)

TV Interviews

[BookTV: RealMedia (don't miss 54:17)]

A quick summary of Barnett's ideas in a textbook on terrorism.

Barnett in the Canadian Air Force Journal

Why We Fight: this film is an example of anti-American left-wing propaganda and paranoid conspiracy theories (not seeing the world as it is)

[Hanson's review: Eugene's Jarecki's Why We Fight is a reprehensible film in its intellectual dishonesty. But it is so poorly cobbled together that it never rises above the propaganda level of Fahrenheit 9/11. It purports to be a serious documentary not about soldiers in the first Gulf War, Afghanistan, or even Iraq, but about all sorts of conspiracies of how they got there.]

[Bowman's review: So all the cliches of '60s leftist agitprop can be trotted out again as if they had never been heard before -- as if nothing had changed and the good old "Military-Industrial Complex" could be assumed to be responsible every time Americans went to war.]

[McBride's review: Antiwar documentary Why We Fight offers simplistic answers: The film boils 20th-century American history down to a series of secret operations and backroom deals, the “triumph of capitalism over democracy” and the economic imperative of combat. According to Jarecki, one nation under God has become one nation under the thumb of an increasingly bloodthirsty war industry.]

MY ADVICE = AVOID THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, GET SERIOUS, AND LOOK INTO DR. BARNETT'S VISION OF HOPE FOR WORLD PEACE

Watch the documentary: IraqAndBeyond.com

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