The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century | Thomas P.M. Barnett

The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century | Thomas P.M. Barnett | Must Read Book for the 21st Century

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The Pentagon's New...

	The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century Thomas P.M. Barnett, 2005 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Building upon the works of Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, and Francis Fukuyama, The Pentagon's New Map describes recent U.S. military history and strategy, discusses where America's forces will likely be heading in the near future, outlines the crucial role the nation needs to play in establishing international stability, and provides much needed hope at one of the most difficult times in American history.

ONE WORD: GLOBALIZATION

I give this book 5 stars for educating me about how the Pentagon thinks, organizes and deals with Internation issues such as military conflicts.

The "New MAP" refers to the POST COLD WAR ERA. Measuring up possible future world powers vs. multiple smaller conflicts, and how "GLOBALIZATION" is steering countries like China towards becoming more Democractic over time.

Mr. Barnett describes his role at the Pentagon, and politics that steer decisions in war time or peace time (Defense Budget inter fighting).

I'm still reading this book, and I know the data is a bit outdated, but for someone newer to this subject, it's still informative and facinating to read, if this subject interests you.

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Must Read Book for the 21st Century

Dr Barnett is one of those true geniuses with the ability to explain a complex global environment in terms anyone can understand. He clearly describes the current role of the US in global politics and the path we must take to ensure the future for all the peoples with whom we co-inhabit this planet. This is a MUST-READ, particularly for those who question our current involvement in the Middle East. He's unabashedly critical of the Bush Administration and the Pentagon where appropriate. But he also gives credit to the President for his understanding and foresight in the face of the current global epoch.

This is no political manifesto, rather it is a blueprint by which a truly global economy can flourish.

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An Interesting Take on the Future of Threats to America

I was dialing around cable at my parent's house one day a couple of years ago and ran across the most incredible power point presentation being given by a dude from the Naval War College on CSPAN about how the U.S. should think about security threats in the future. Basically his point was that those alienated from global capitalism are those we need to be most worried about and that places like Central Africa will soon join Afghanistan as geographical locations from which threats will arise. That presentation became this book and it is seriously worth reading. Barnett makes his living predicting bad stuff for the U.S. government (and now, I believe, also for big corporations) and he is very good at what he does. Obviously sites of threats to the U.S. are also sites for new modes of positive resistance (those these things are not interchangeable) and also sights for economic development, so this book struck really close to a lot of my interests.

Interesting ideas and an interesting book. It's a couple of years old now, but still worth picking up.

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The Pentagon,s New Map - a recipe for continuing millitary catastrophies.

This book is pure salesmanship for a person and a point of view. It is not fun to read, but it is probably important that it be read because it provides insight into the incredibly mundane world of selling military solutions to congress and the administration. What are touted as great ideas turn out to be simplistic interpretations of the world situation based upon a lack of understanding of culutral diversity and concern for human rights. Because it is important for the public to understand how the U.S. gets into stupid, counterproductive militeary adventrures it is imporant that this book be widely read, however it is tedious and tiresome to be continually barraged with the authors misguided and unsophisticated views.

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Very difficult to read

Very interesting content but very difficult to read. One better have all their wits and concentration available in order to wade through this. I can only read it in the morning when my concentration is in top form. As a result I'll probably never get through it, because I save most of my morning reading time for the Wall Street Journal.

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