A couple of hit-and-runs:

1. Joel Turnipseed, author of "Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir", reviews "Planet of Slums" for the Star Tribune. At the end he writes:

readers of Robert Kagan's "Imperial Grunts" or Thomas P.M. Barnett's "The Pentagon's New Map" will get a first-hand look at the teeming locales that will challenge state and international authority.

"Planet of Slums" sounds like a 228 page wallow in the muck of urbanization. Does his commoditization of despair trump Tom's vision for connections to globalization that can raise the tide for all boats?

2. Defense Industry Daily's Perspectives on Technology & Transformation links Tom's review of Chet Richard's "Neither Shall the Sword".