Sitemap - 2025 - Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines
[PODCAST] Which national future are we actually buying with mass deportations?
[POST] Which national future are we actually buying with mass deportations?
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXXI (6 July 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXXI (6 July 2025)
[PODCAST+VIDEO] My 2006 presentation at Pop!Tech
[PODCAST] The Diversity We Choose
[REWIND] The Diversity We Choose
[PODCAST] MAGA's Napoleon and Robespierre
[POST] MAGA's Napoleon and Robespierre
[PODCAST] Trump's win-now strategy will only grow more extreme
[POST] Trump's win-now strategy will only grow more extreme
[PODCAST] Squid Game -- the Israeli edition
[POST] Squid Game -- the Israeli edition
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXX (29 June 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXX (29 June 2025)
[PODCAST] The Research Paper That Got Me Fired from a Chinese Think Tank
[REWIND] The Research Paper That Got Me Fired from a Chinese Think Tank
[PODCAST] Iran's countering long con
[POST] Iran's countering long con
[PODCAST] A China that refuses to grow up
[POST] A China that refuses to grow up
[PODCAST] Trump doesn't hold Israel's leash
[POST] Trump doesn't hold Israel's leash
[PODCAST] Iran socializing the risk
[POST] Iran socializing the risk
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIX (22 June 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIX (22 June 2025)
[PODCAST] Questions and Answers #8
[POST] Questions and Answers #8
[PODCAST] America's political assassination state vulnerability index
[POST] America's political assassination state vulnerability index
[POST] Myth-busting the "axis of autocracies", "quartet of chaos," "deadly quartet" ... aka, CRINK
[PODCAST] Constructing a moral compass for the looming Singularity
[POST] Constructing a moral compass for the looming Singularity
[PODCAST] Speed the killing, speed the plow
[POST] Speed the killing, speed the plow
[PODCAST] When war is identity
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVIII (15 June 2025)
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVIII (15 June 2025)
[POST] The mega Pentagon's New Map brief on C-SPAN
[PODCAST] How to trigger an insurgency in America
[POST] How to trigger an insurgency in America
[REWIND] Trump's top-cover strategy becomes clear
[PODCAST] The nuclear Thinker-Uppers have thunk again
[POST] The nuclear Thinker-Uppers have thunk again
[PODCAST] To live and die in L.A.
[POST] To live and die in L.A.
[PODCAST] The history of erasing history
[POST] The history of erasing history
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVII (8 June 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVII (8 June 2025)
[VIDEO] CSPAN appearance re: 2007 Esquire story on CJTF-HOA
[PODCAST] The Pentagon will adjust to an increasingly "verticalized" global map
[POST] The Pentagon will adjust to an increasingly "verticalized" global map
[PODCAST] The Gilded/Gelded Age
[PODCAST] The most direct path to the AI promised land
[POST] The most direct path to the AI promised land
[PODCAST] Another milestone in the unfolding Military Singularity
[POST] Another milestone in the unfolding Military Singularity
[PODCAST] For want of a chip, the supply chain was lost
[POST] For want of a chip, the supply chain was lost
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVI (1 June 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXVI (1 June 2025)
[PODCAST] The Americans Have Landed
[ARTICLE] The Americans Have Landed
[PODCAST] Did America Lose the Cold War?
[POST] Did America Lose the Cold War?
[PODCAST] Chairman Trump's frantic Cultural Revolution
[POST] Chairman Trump's frantic Cultural Revolution
[PODCAST] "Working toward the Führer"
[POST] "Working toward the Führer"
[PODCAST] What we're losing when we lose the superpower brand war
[RESTACK] What we're losing when we lose the superpower brand war
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXV (25 May 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXV (25 May 2025)
[PODCAST] Choosing Country Over Color
[RESTACK] Choosing Country Over Color
[PODCAST] Marching to our own heat
[POST] Marching to our own heat
[PODCAST] The Most Perceptive Presentation of My Thinking - Ever
[POST] The Most Perceptive Presentation of My Thinking - Ever
[PODCAST] Was I calling for Trump all along?
[POST] Was I calling for Trump all along?
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIV (18 May 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIV (18 May 2025)
[PODCAST] Questions and Answers #7
[POST] Questions and Answers #7
[VIDEO] Talking Trump and the Middle East
[PODCAST] Two men enter, one man leaves
[POST] Two men enter, one man leaves
[PODCAST] America's Retreat from the World, 2009-2029
[POST] America's Retreat from the World, 2009-2029
[PODCAST] The good that is Starlink's global expansion -- however engineered
[POST] The good that is Starlink's global expansion -- however engineered
[PODCAST] We are still living in Joe Nye's world
[POST] We are still living in Joe Nye's world
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIII (11 May 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXIII (11 May 2025)
[PODCAST] The future of war ...
[POST] Pope Leo XIV is a very good sign
[PODCAST] Israel's eradication of Gaza nears the end-stage
[POST] Israel's eradication of Gaza nears the end-stage
[PODCAST] The Right America is White America
[POST] The Right America is White America
[PODCAST] Observe, Orient, Determine, Anticipate
[POST] Observe, Orient, Determine, Anticipate
[PODCAST] You can't handle the truth!
[POST] You can't handle the truth!
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXII (4 May 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXII (4 May 2025)
[PODCAST] "Life After DoDth or: How the Evernet Changes Everything" (May 2000)
[ARTICLE] "Life After DoDth or: How the Evernet Changes Everything" (May 2000)
[PODCAST] Trump to China: I wanna divorce!
[POST] Trump to China: I wanna divorce!
[PODCAST] Radical Acceptance of Trump 2.0
[POST] Radical Acceptance of Trump 2.0
[PODCAST] The Reckoning to Come
[PODCAST] The Coming African Centrality (part 2 of 2)
[POST] The Coming African Centrality (part 2 of 2)
[PODCAST] The Coming African Centrality (part 1 of 2)
[POST] The Coming African Centrality (part 1 of 2)
[PODCAST] Sunday Cutdown LXXI (27 April 2025)
[POST] Sunday Cutdown LXXI (27 April 2025)
[VIDEO] Booknotes, The Pentagon's New Map (2004)
[TRANSCRIPT] Booknotes, The Pentagon's New Map (2004)
[PODCAST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!
[POST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!
PODCAST: The Bretton Woods-after-next
POST: The Bretton Woods-after-next
America won Peak Globalization but Americans are losing the subsequent Gilded Age [podcast]
America won Peak Globalization but Americans are losing the subsequent Gilded Age
Sunday Cutdown LXX [audio version]
Sunday Cutdown LXX (20 April 2025)
The world on the move [podcast]
Promotion Optimization Institute slide deck
The better story wins the century [podcast]
The better story wins the century
Bush's neocon national security policy vs. Trump's neo-mercantilist economic policy [podcast]
Bush's neocon national security policy vs. Trump's neo-mercantilist economic policy
A Splendid Little (Trade) War [audio]
Sunday Cutdown LXIX [audio version]
Sunday Cutdown LXIX (13 April 2025)
Real Clear Politics's talking heads podcast discusses my January Politico piece
Panel appearance on Risk On/Risk Off podcast
The floor-to-ceiling analysis on Trump's tariff war [audio version]
The floor-to-ceiling analysis on Trump's tariff war
Trump as America's Misguided Gorbachev
Trump as America's Misguided Gorbachev
Sunday Cutdown LXVIII (6 April 2025)
Sunday Cutdown LXVIII (6 April 2025)
Earliest taping of one of my briefings
The inherent limits of fear-based rule
The Leviathan/SysAdmin split -- revisited
Sunday Cutdown LXVII (30 March 2025)
Talking East Asian security with NTD
COVID as System Perturbation (Part 2 of 2)
COVID as System Perturbation (Part 1 of 2)
Sunday Cutdown LXVI (23 March 2025)
Blast from the Past: China’s quantum grand strategy
The geographic "verticalization" of US combatant commands? Finally?
The AI revolution that nobody seems comfortable with -- for now
Same time, next administration
As Israel continues to eliminate Gaza ...
Sunday Cutdown LXV (16 March 2025)
One sex, two sex, red sex, blue sex
A United States of the Americas
Sunday Cutdown LXIV (9 March 2025)
Decoding Trump 2.0 podcast appearance
Why America will do just fine in a North-South world
Trump's quadruple-decker sandwich
China's Quantum Grand Strategy in action
Every company needs its own Agentic AI
Sunday Cutdown LXIII (2 March 2025)
Supergrids as logical path to regional integration
Same hemispheric argument, different angle
America's Portfolio Rebalanced
Syracuse University/Maxwell School Discipline & Practice of Strategy class slide deck
Sunday Cutdown LXII (23 February 2025)
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee
An irresistible migration meets an unmovable population
Q&A Saturday (becomes Q&A Monday)
It's my Party and I'll Taiwan if I want to
Trump's top-cover strategy becomes clear
Sunday Cutdown LXI (16 February 2025)
Time for everybody to get their own foreign policy
Climb every mountain! Burn every bridge!
Geo-strategic optimism about climate change
Sunday Cutdown LX (9 February 2025)
Thomas P.M. Barnett -- The Short Form
Trump's moveable Gaza goal post
Throwing spaghetti against the wall
Sunday Cutdown LX (2 February 2025)
A real-estate POTUS for a re-lo world
DEI was never going to survive US Whites approaching majority-minority status
The ranks (ret.) have questions
Trump's green light to Israel re: Gaza diminishment
Sunday Cutdown LIX (26 January 2025)
The Story Behind the Illustration (37/54)
Checking in on the Military Singularity
My appearance on Canadian Ryan Jespersen's Real Talk show
Sunday Cutdown LVIII (19 January 2025)
My appearance yesterday on BBC's The Context with Christian Fraser
My Politico Magazine "Big Idea" essay
The DIU as the Military Singularity's OFT
Climate-change adaptation must overtake mitigation
Sunday Cutdown LVII (12 January 2025)
Africa's needs determine its patrons
Glass half-full at home, mostly empty abroad?
Serial 11:11 of "The Emily Updates"
Serial 10:11 of "The Emily Updates"
Serial 9:11 of "The Emily Updates"
Serial 8:11 of "The Emily Updates"