The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008 | Politics
Thomas P.M. Barnett worries about the drift toward conflict after the Iran missile test: On the Israeli side, better to get it done before Obama takes the oath. Ditto for Ahmadinejad, strangely enough. No point in having your best enemy...
Atlantic Review (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Thomas P.M. Barnett has a column in the Knoxville News Sentinel in which he reports on the mood of government officials in the Netherlands. There are a lot of interesting angles in the article -- for instance on McCain's 'League of Democracies' , which the Dutch do not appreciate, and on European worries about trade rhetoric by Obama, which would be overblown as Obama is pivoting to the centre faster...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In a recent post on the Thomas PM Barnett Weblog, Tom laments the Irish people voting against the Lisbon Treaty: It is weird how the EU can let one country decide to run a plebiscite and then kill a treaty. Better is majority like we did with the Constitution. (I might add that the Constitution wasn’t adopted [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Celebrating the Successful Launch of the Journal of the Global Stability Industry WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- EEI Communications will host a launch party to celebrate the successful launch of its new publication, Serviam Magazine, on Thursday, July 24 in Washington, DC. The magazine's Editor-in-Chief is Michael Waller, PhD, who has worked as a contract instructor for U.S.-backed insurgents...
I, Hans. (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The most vigorous glass-half-full reading by two key architects of the surge (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog): The mission to deny Iranian influence in Iraq was lost the minute we toppled Saddam.
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
ARTICLE: The counterterrorism paradox, BY BRIAN BURTON, Armed Forces Journal, June 2008 Here's the main part that references Tom: The strategic objective of these campaigns has been akin to Thomas P.M. Barnett’s recommendation in “The Pentagon’s New Map” that the...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Thomas PM Barnett: “Bottom line: mature democracies trust populists more, while authoritarian states like fellow rightists.” I like Barnett, and many of his ideas. However, quotes like this that make me think that he belongs in a cloistered think tank deep in the beltway, where his thoughts would probably have less impact than they currently do.
Russia Blog (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Russian army soldiers in winter gear Courtesy of Thomas P.M. Barnett's weblog and Wired magazine, comes an interesting story about high level U.S. defense strategy. According to Gen. Michael Moseley, who was recently dismissed from his position as U.S....
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
LTC. John Nagl had an article, not yet available online, in the prestigious RUSI journal where he used his review of The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn to drive home a geopolitical and grand strategic reality that I offer here with my subsequent comments( major hat tip to [...]
