First, this article quoted Tom:
ARTICLE: Special military group looks ahead to fight America's future wars, Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, August 26, 2007
Excerpt:
Can the United States afford such lopsided bills? Not for long, according to military strategist Thomas Barnett, author of "The Pentagon's New Map," one of the treatises that lay out the scenario for these asymmetrical wars that planners expect.
"The million-to-one (ratio) is unsustainable," Barnett said, although it's difficult for him or anyone else to explain how the United States might be able to end its dependency on high-tech weapons that allow it to project power without putting U.S. forces in harm's way.