The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century
If military strategy debates bore you to sleep, try watching Thomas Barnett lay down the “new lay of the land” for you – or what he calls “The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century”. You won’t be disappointed.
Barnett argues that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 revealed the gap between an outdated Cold War-era military and a radically different one needed to deal with emerging threats. He analyzes recent military operations including Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom amongst other, and points out that the nature of war has changed, and so has the nature of the enemy. In this video, Thomas Barnett proposes a “Department Of Everything Else” – arguing that this will be a department between War (Defense) and Peace (State), one that is focused on getting countries from the Gap (as I describe those less connected regions) to the Core. State is built primarily to deal with functioning states, or the Core, while Defense is reorienting after 9/11 to wage wars in the Gap.
Thomas Barnett has been described by U.S. News & World Report’s Michael Barone as “one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time.” He is a New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker who’s been profiled on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal many times. Amongst other notable achievements, Tom Barnette has served as a strategic planner who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War. He worked as a Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Newport RI, where he taught and served–in a senior advisory role–with military and civilian leaders in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Central Command, Special Operations Command, and Joint Forces Command. He has also been engaged in some strategic concepts that link change in the international security environment to the imperative of transforming U.S. military capabilities to meet future threats.
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