*First footnote to Battleland blog post "A Critique of the National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds:
- See my The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, see Chapter Four: "The Core and the Gap," in the subsection, "The Flow of Money, Or Why We Won't Be Going to War with China."
- See also Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating, see Chapter 3: "Growing the Core By Securing The East," in the subsections "Locking In China At Today's Prices" and "In The Future, America's Most Important Allies Will Be New Core States."
- See also Great Powers: America and the World After Bush, see Chapter 5: "The Diplomatic Realignment: Rebranding The Team of Rivals."
- See also my article in the November 2005 issue of Esquire entitled, "The Chinese Are Our Friends."
