Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what? Thomas Barnett has the answers. A senior military analyst with the U.S. Naval War College, he has given a constant stream of briefings over the past few years, and particularly since 9/11, to the highest of high-level civilian and military policymakers-and now he gives it to you. The Pentagon's New Map is a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to do no less than predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century. Building on the works of Friedman, Huntington, and Fukuyama, and then taking a leap beyond, Barnett crystallizes recent American military history and strategy, sets the parameters for where our forces will likely be headed in the future, outlines the unique role that America can and will play in establishing international stability-and provides much-needed hope at a crucial yet uncertain time in world history. For anyone seeking to understand the Iraqs, Afghanistans, and Liberias of the present and future, the intimate new links between foreign policy and national security, and the operational realities of the world as it exists today, The Pentagon's New Map is a template, a Rosetta stone. Agree with it, disagree with it, argue with it-there is no book more essential for 2004 and beyond.

Table of Contents:
The Pentagon's New Map Preface: An Operating Theory of the World 1. New Rule Sets Playing Jack Ryan New Rules for a New Era Present at the Creation A Future Worth Creating2. The Rise of the "Lesser Includeds" The Manthorpe Curve The Fracturing of the Security Market The Rise of Asymmetrical Warfare How 9/11 Saved the Pentagon from Itself 3. Disconnectedness Defines Danger How I Learned to Think Horizontally Mapping Globalization's Frontier Minding the Gap To Live and Die in the Gap Different Worlds, Different Rule Sets Why I Hate the "Arc of Instability" 4. The Core and the Gap The Military-Market Link The Flow of People, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Population Bomb The Flow of Energy, or Whose Blood for Whose Oil? The Flow of Money, or Why We Won't Be Going to War with China The Flow of Security, or How America Must Keep Globalization in Balance 5. The New Ordering Principle Overtaken by Events The Rise of System Perturbations The Greater Inclusive The Big Bang as Strategy 6. The Global Transaction Strategy You're Ruining My Military! The Essential Transaction The System Administrator The American Way of War 7. The Myths We Make (I Will Now Dispel) The Myth of Global Chaos The Myth of America as Globocop The Myth of American Empire 8. Hope without Guarantees Acknowledgments Notes Index