+ Changed the top-of-page navigation today to point to the Great Powers index page (which I'll be ginning up shortly) and a new index page for Tom's Trips. This page contains links to Tom's trips to East Africa, Central Asia and Cairo with the resulting materials, including articles, photo galleries and trip diaries. One item that hasn't been linked before is the trip diary from Tom's trip to CENTCOM when he got to shadow Admiral Fallon, resulting in the Esquire article The Man Between War and Peace. The diary posts are:

Fallon Trip Posts - Background
Fallon Trip Posts

+ Want to get your copies of PNM and BFA signed by Tom? You're in luck! I just put up instructions on the FAQs:

Will Tom sign copies of his books for me?

Yes! If you don't already have them, pick them up (through Amazon, as linked on the weblog, or elsewhere) and send them to him with a SASE (enough to cover the postage of books, obviously) at:

Barnett Consulting LLC
PO Box 970
Franklin, IN 46131