Thomas P.M. Barnett

Thomas P. M. Barnett is a senior adviser to the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, Central Command, Special
Operations Command, the Joint Staff and the Joint Forces
Command. He formerly served as a senior strategic
researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War College and
as Assistant for Strategic Futures in the OSD's Office of
Force Transformation. He is a founding partner of the New
Rule Sets Project LLC, and his work has appeared in The
New
York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science
Monitor, and Esquire, where he is now a
contributing editor.