W. David Stephenson: Thomas Barnett's Map is My Map

Blog: W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.

Tag: With a goal of "making homeland security everyone's business," Stephenson Strategies' W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security strategies, emphasizing empowering the public, creative use of technology, win-win public/private collaborations yielding security and economic benefits, and protecting civil liberties. CIO.com says: "Google 'homeland security blog' and security consultant W. David Stephenson's site tops the list. If you like blogs.. updated nearly every day, Stephenson's your man, providing links and analysis of current homeland security topics."

Stephenson blogs "Thomas Barnett's Map is My Map". Snip follows:

Thomas Barnett's rapid rise to prominence is an inspiration to me, especially when the conventional wisdom on homeland security, now thoroughly discredited, still holds sway (I have to remember that in Thomas Kuhn's groundbreaking work on paradigm shifts, he noted that defense of the status quo was often most fervent right before it collapsed completely).