News From USJFCOM: Author gives keynote speech for CD&E 2005 Snip follows:

(BERLIN - Nov. 9, 2005) -- The author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, gave the opening keynote speech for the second day of the NATO/U.S. Joint Forces Command-sponsored Concept Development & Experimentation Conference 2005 here today.

Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, a contributing editor for Esquire magazine, argues the United States, with the assistance of current and future alliances, can create a stabilised global future by focusing on economic ties and connectivity.

Barnett, while speaking mostly from a U.S. perspective, also offered his insight into future NATO alliance security issues.