Posted on 06/01/2004 6:29:48 PM PDT by Valin
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The thesis is hardly creative. Of course, the problem nations are those that don't have much to lose by not playing by the rules, aka the "rogue states" etc. The guy was on CSPAN booknotes program this last Sunday. He did not strike me as a rocket scientist.
Michael Barone is an idiot. "Power Point" is not the Pentagon's word for a briefing: it is a common term for any presentation made using Microsoft's ubiquitous PowerPoint software.
Here are Barone's "credentials": Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications–including the Economist and the New York Times–and is a regular panelist on the McLaughlin Group. Barone graduated from Harvard College and then Yale Law School and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal.
And yet he doesn't even know what a PowerPoint presentation is? He must be another Leftist-journalist: promoted based on ideology instead of intelligence, knowledge, and credibility.
You misread what he said. He said "brief" is the Pentagon word for briefing.
Barnett's theses were developed by the various War Colleges (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.) and thinktanks over the past decade or so, since the fall of the Soviet Union. Barnett is widely considered the best at explaining it. I think he's brilliant, myself.
Barnett's website:
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/default.htm
Well, everybody knows what a PowerPoint presentation is, you're right, but I've never heard of a briefing being called a "brief" before. I write briefs, as a lawyer, so that immediately got my attention.
This so-called "new map" was first published in Esquire Magazine in March 2003.
Please see #8; it will explain a lot.
If I'd never heard or read Michael Barone I be careful of throwing remarks around him.
The Pentagon's New Map
Esquire ^ | March 1, 2003 | Thomas P.M. Barnett, U.S. Naval War College
Posted on 03/02/2003 4:58:03 PM PST by spycatcher
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I believe I've seen it all now.
The Pentagon's new map
The Pentagon's New Map
Esquire March 1, 2003 Thomas P.M. Barnett, U.S. Naval War College
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I am a government consultant and I am here to help you. PowerPoint is so yesterday, dude. There has been a deserved reaction to the wonko-dweebs and their 1400-words-per-slide-presentations.
Now it's considered way cool to ... gasp ... like talk... and hand out a brief précis of what you just said, in case the ruling class fell asleep during the homily.
OBTW, this guy is really onto a very useful concept. Love to see his PowerPoint!
I agree with you, his theories are sound and he explains them in a simple fashion.
The Bush campaign would do well to explain the war on terror the way he does.
Seems you're getting noticed in more places.
Thomas Barnett was interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN over the weekend.
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