Here it is with no comment from me (just an enter-it-into-the-record sort of thing):

BARNETT, Thomas P. M.

PERSONAL: Son of John E. (a lawyer) and Colleen (Clifford) Barnett; married; wife's name, Vonne; children: four. Education: University of Wisconsin, B.A. (honors); Harvard University, A.M., Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Home--Portsmouth, RI. Office--Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Code 39, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841. E-mail--tom@thomaspmbarnett.com.

CAREER: CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA, project director for Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research, c. 1990-98; U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, professor and senior strategic researcher, 1998--; Barnett Consulting, Portsmouth, RI, owner, 1998--; Department of Defense, Year 2000 International Security Dimension Project, director; Office of Force Transformation, Department of Defense, assistant for strategic futures, 2001-03.

MEMBER: Phi Beta Kappa.

WRITINGS:

Romanian and East German Policies in the Third World: Comparing the Strategies of Ceausescu and Honecker, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1992.

The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, Putnam (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor of articles to Esquire, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post.

SIDELIGHTS:

Military theorist Thomas P. M. Barnett's second book, The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, "is a must read for people who are paid to be or are learning to be strategists," Alan L. Gropman wrote in the Washington Times: "it is packed with new and usually sound ideas." In order to reduce emerging threats to the United States, Barnett theorizes, the United States must concentrate on connecting the areas that have not yet been reached by economic development to the global economy. He terms the developed nations--the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Israel--the "core," and the undeveloped regions of Africa, Asia, and South America the "gap." Nearly all threats to the United States originate in the gap, so "shrinking the gap" should be an effective way to reduce those threats. In order to assist with integrating the gap into the core, Barnett suggests that the American military be restructured to make it better suited to peacekeeping and nation-building operations. Barnett's strategy is "clear and comprehensive," wrote Library Journal contributor Zachary T. Irwin. Reviewing the book in Business Week, Stan Crock called The Pentagon's New Map "provocative" and noted that "when describing the inner workings of the Pentagon, Barnett is insightful and often amusing." A Publishers Weekly reviewer also praised the book, commenting that "one of the book's most compelling aspects is its description of the negotiating, infighting and backbiting required to get a hearing for unconventional ideas in the national security establishment."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 2004, Jay Freeman, review of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, p. 1408.

Business Week, May 17, 2004, Stan Crock, review of The Pentagon's New Map, p. 24.

Futurist, September-October, 2004, review of The Pentagon's New Map, p. 63.

Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2004, review of The Pentagon's New Map, pp. 161-162.

Library Journal, June 15, 2004, Zachary T. Irwin, review of The Pentagon's New Map, p. 85.

Publishers Weekly, March 22, 2004, review of The Pentagon's New Map, p. 71.

Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 3, 2004, Alan L. Gropman, review of The Pentagon's New Map, section A, p. 15.

ONLINE

Thomas P. M. Barnett Home Page, http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com (August 27, 2004).*