Thomas P.M. Barnett
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Thomas P.M. Barnettis an American military geostrategist and former Chief Analyst at Wikistrat. He developed a geopolitical theory that divided the world into “the Functioning Core” and the “Non-Integrating Gap” that made him particularly notable prior to the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq when he wrote an article for Esquire in support of the military action entitled “The Pentagon's New Map”. The central thesis of his geopolitical theory is that the connections the globalization brings between countriesare synonymous with those...
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CountryUnited States of America
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If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
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The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.
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Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
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The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
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