"The Pentagon's New Map. War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas P. M. Barnett
G. P. Putnam's Sons | 2004 | ISBN: 0425202399 | 449 pages | PDF | 6 Mb
A groundbreaking reexamination of U.S. and global security, certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year. For anyone seeking to understand the Iraqs, Afghanistans, and Liberias of the present and future, the intimate new links between foreign policy and national security, and the operational realities of the world as it exists today, The Pentagon's New Map is a template, a Rosetta stone.