Pentagon's new map

Most of my friends know that I was a huge fan of Thomas Barnett's book "The Pentagon's New Map" 3-4 years ago when it was released. I probably gave away 10 copies over the last couple of years.

Barnett's work IS important - and is probably to first really interesting blueprint for american foreign policy since George Kennan sat in the basement of the US embassy in Moscow in the 40's and banged out the "Long Telegram" that eventually became the Doctrine of Containment (or at least the first iteration of that strategy as it morphed over the next 40 years)

Above is a link to a TED talk given a couple of years ago by Barnett.

For those of you who are not yet familar with the TED talks - run! don't WALK to their web site for some of these extraordinary 18 minute presentations.