On sending Tom stuff

In text of email is good.

Working links are good.

All attachments suck.

I blog mostly off my phone now (yes, I type incredibly fast), and I just junk the attachments and the cryptic link-only emails.

I need a hint, or an excerpt, or the text. I need to be able to process the whole email in about 30 seconds.

Any longer is too long, given the several hundred substantive emails I get in a day.

Comments

[Harry Kreisler]

Hi Tom,When your new book comes out, please put me on your book tour for an appearance on Conversations with History. Your first interview was very popular. Keep up the good work. Best,Harry KreislerExec. Director, IIS U.C. BerkeleyHost and Exec. Producer Conversations with History

[Laura Hacker]

Thank God, I found you again. You make sense in a world that does not. I came to know you through The Pentagon's New Map and was to have a comment posted in your first online publication. My statement had to do with the similarities between the women of the Taliban (and other Muslim countries) and the covering of the body by the pentacostals in Eastern Kentucky. Your response was that the gaps appear everywhere. I know it is a lot to ask, but as I was unable to find this at the time, is it still out there.

I am still promoting you and will be catching up on reading your newer books as well as not losing your blogs.

Thank you for being a voice of reason.

[A. Fontes]

Dr. Barnett,I have read both the Pentagon's New Map and Blueprint for Action. Each sum up with great detail what is happening in the world today and what is likely to transpire in the future...Great reading material. I have recommend them to my friends and colleagues.

My wife and I also adopted an infant girl. More recently, we brought home our baby from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia "Russia." During our stay, it was obvious that the Iron Curtain had truly been opened to the world...Globalization is progressing at an aggressive pace in Russia. This was evident with the younger generation that mirrored our kids in the US with their use of cell phones, IPods, and designer clothes. Hard to believe, but even rap music and break dancing infiltrated the confines of Siberia, one of the most remote places in the world.

Once again, I enjoyed your books and look forward to reading you latest, Great Powers.

[Linell]

Dr. Barnett,

I'm a new IR student (but not young by any means:) that is frantically trying to play catch-up with your books and Youtube links as I'd like to formulate a topic and IR research question from the massive amount of info you're sharing with us, the world. My experience is predominantly in China, but I'm currently living in Manila, Philippines and am wondering why the Philippines is part of the Gap in your "map"? It seems pretty connected to me in many ways: economically, strategically, broadband(ally:). I can only guess it has something to do with the terrorist activity coming out of Mindinao ~ yes?