+ EagleSpeak linked Tom's Esquire piece on sea-traffic control.
+ Information Dissemination picked it up (and didn't like it). [Tom's note: Galrahn simply went on a side rant regarding a particular Ulrich statement that reflects Harry's current position. It was ill-advised and unfortunately distracting to an otherwise great and informative post. I comment further below.]
+ Dans Blog also linked Sea-Traffic Control.

+ TigerHawk linked The Next Five States (and elicited 27 comments).
+ John Robb linked it and, not surprisingly, disagreed with the premise.
+ Yet another weird SF fan linked it.

+ John Robb linked The coming strike on Iran.
+ So did Hootsbuddy's Place.
+ Relatedly, Auspundits, linked Signalling Iran with our proxy and The case for signaling Iran as compromise.
+ Left Flank missed the point and called Bush has done moved on--quite deftly a 'war dance'.

+ Silflay Hraka quoted some Michael Totten that they said Tom would like.
+ Scitalks embedded the TED video.
+ LibraryThing has PNM and BFA.
+ Wormtown Taxi linked The balanced world economy is more easily achieved than imagined.
+ Outside the Beltway linked Giuliani reaching to the wrong audiences.
+ Outside the Beltway also linked Intell: slowest and dumbest of all.
+ ThreatsWatch linked Vietnam backwards, a Balkans in reverse.
+ WakeUpandShutUp posted his/her 'Favorite Thomas P.M. Barnett Story.

+ Dans Blog reprinted last week's column.
+ And ZenPundit linked it (along with his own take on Barnett-as-William Wallace ;-)
+ The Conservative Voice mentioned PNM.
+ Midwest Commando linked the Time interviews.
+ Just one more note that Curtis' 5GW Theory Timeline, including many of Tom's posts, is truly impressive.
+ Layer 8 says reading Tom is 'like, 20,000th grade'.