[POST] The mega Pentagon's New Map brief on C-SPAN

When I somehow got three hours on the network in the summer of 2004

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Starting in 2001, I gave an opening-of-the-school-year lecture each fall at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at National Defense U in DC. When The Pentagon’s New Map came out in April 2004, I was asked to present a master brief to open an ICAF summer symposium, which C-SPAN then asked if it could tape.

What’s unusual about this presentation?

First off, you have me talking about the distant future that is “2025”! My big mistake? Way too much optimism on Iran. Close second: my way too much pessimism on Africa.

The brief is unique in being the longest ever delivered by me — a solid two and a half hours of content ending with a decent stretch of audience Q&A.

As such, it is the most comprehensive presentation of my Naval War College work (Y2K, then the NewRuleSets.Project with Cantor Fitzgerald, and then the total Pentagon’s New Map presentation. Thus, there are a lot of slides/arguments here than really can’t be found anywhere else online — hence my desire to preserve.

The brief was highly watched on C-SPAN, making it one of the top-five shows for the year. The brief particularly went down well in Florida during a hurricane that trapped a lot of people at-home with nothing to do. I got a lot of emails from that neck of the woods for weeks and months later.

One person who saw the brief at that time ended up mentioning it in his later published mystery/detective novel, which was weird, as the main character ends up watching the show at one point in the plot and comments on it. I wish I could cite the book but I only have a hard copy of it and it’s in storage.

Anyway, here’s a unique capture of my work — at two hours and 40 mins.

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