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] Kill Vlad, Vol. 1

[POST] Kill Vlad, Vol. 1

[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] The Gang of Four

[POST] The Gang of Four

[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] Superpower policing

[POST] Superpower policing

[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

[PODCAST] Myth-busting the "axis of autocracies", "quartet of chaos," "deadly quartet" ... aka, CRINK

[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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Q&A Saturday

[PODCAST] Speed the killing, speed the plow

[POST] Speed the killing, speed the plow

[PODCAST] When war is identity

[POST] 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] Trump's endless war

[POST] Trump's endless war

[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

[POST] 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] American Lysenko

[POST] American Lysenko

[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] The Face Race

[POST] The Face Race

[PODCAST] Golden Dumb

[POST] Golden Dumb

[PODCAST] Marching to our own heat

[POST] Marching to our own heat

[PODCAST] Wealth as certainty

[POST] Wealth as certainty

[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] Let's make a deal!

[POST] Let's make a deal!

[PODCAST] Two men enter, one man leaves

[POST] Two men enter, one man leaves

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Q&A Saturday

[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)

[TRANSCRIPT] 2005 TED Talk

[VIDEO] 2005 TED Talk

[PODCAST] The future of war ...

[POST] 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

[POST] 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] Competency Porn

[POST] Competency Porn

[PODCAST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!

[POST] Trump to Africa: Drop Dead!

PODCAST: Corpulent Beings

POST: Corpulent Beings

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)

Questions and Answers #6

Questions and Answers #6

The world on the move [podcast]

The world on the move

Promotion Optimization Institute slide deck

The better story wins the century [podcast]

The better story wins the century

Q&A Saturday

AGI = UBI [podcast version]

AGI = UBI

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]

A Splendid Little (Trade) War

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

Shooting the Moon

Shooting the moon

Total Recall

Total Recall

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

Superpower Suicide

The Long and the Short of It

The Puzzle Masters

The inherent limits of fear-based rule

The Leviathan/SysAdmin split -- revisited

Sunday Cutdown LXVII (30 March 2025)

Questions and Answers #5

Turnabout intruder

Talking East Asian security with NTD

COVID as System Perturbation (Part 2 of 2)

Q&A Saturday

Drones! Drones! Drones!

Not net-centric enough

COVID as System Perturbation (Part 1 of 2)

Trump 2.0 jumps the shark

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

Revisiting American Apartheid

As Israel continues to eliminate Gaza ...

Sunday Cutdown LXV (16 March 2025)

Questions and Answers #4

One sex, two sex, red sex, blue sex

Q&A Saturday

A United States of the Americas

Set-up, Then Punchline

Expansionism is in the air

A Reverse Nixon?

Temporal disintegration

Sunday Cutdown LXIV (9 March 2025)

Another billing update

Questions and Answers #3

Q&A Saturday

Decoding Trump 2.0 podcast appearance

You had me at real estate

Simple billing notice

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

My left eye -- revisited

Same hemispheric argument, different angle

America's Portfolio Rebalanced

Syracuse University/Maxwell School Discipline & Practice of Strategy class slide deck

Questions and Answers #2

Sunday Cutdown LXII (23 February 2025)

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee

The DOGE Days Are (Not) Over

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

Much ado about nothing

Sunday Cutdown LXI (16 February 2025)

Questions and answers

Q&A Saturday

Time for everybody to get their own foreign policy

Which way does Canada turn?

Waterworld

Climb every mountain! Burn every bridge!

Geo-strategic optimism about climate change

High anxiety!

Program note

Sunday Cutdown LX (9 February 2025)

Trump SMASH!

Thomas P.M. Barnett -- The Short Form

America's Gulag Archipelago?

Trump's moveable Gaza goal post

Risk and I are old friends

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

McKinley, McShminley!

The ranks (ret.) have questions

Talking US-Panama on NTD

Trump's green light to Israel re: Gaza diminishment

Sunday Cutdown LIX (26 January 2025)

The Story Behind the Illustration (37/54)

Which way to the front?

Checking in on the Military Singularity

My appearance on Canadian Ryan Jespersen's Real Talk show

The OPEC of water

Trump-v-world: the cage match

Sunday Cutdown LVIII (19 January 2025)

My appearance yesterday on BBC's The Context with Christian Fraser

Recent appearance on NTD

My Politico Magazine "Big Idea" essay

The DIU as the Military Singularity's OFT

Socializing the risk

Climate-change adaptation must overtake mitigation

Sunday Cutdown LVII (12 January 2025)

Africa's needs determine its patrons

Climatic determinism

Glass half-full at home, mostly empty abroad?

While the iron is hot

Only Nixon could go to China

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"

Serial 7:11 of "The Emily Updates"

Serial 6:11 of "The Emily Updates"