Brief Reminder: The eternal quest for system equilibrium
Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 12:02AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Brief Reminder

As I remember, the concluding slide of my original, fully-formed Office of Force Transformation brief.

A twin-pitch:  understand that our national security establishment is now all about handling (and sometimes delivering) shocks to the system in which the kinetics are typically vastly subordinate to sheer disruption (business continuity is king) and understanding that our bodyguarding role WRT globalization is NOT about stopping structure-changing flows but enabling them in the right, evening-out mix.

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