DR. THOMAS P. M. BARNETT
Dr. Barnett is a strategic planner who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War and has operated his own consulting practice since 1998. Recently, Tom founded a consulting partnership The New Rule Sets Project LLC which was acquired by Enterra Solutions, LLC in August of 2005, with Dr. Barnett as Senior Managing Director. A New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker, Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert on military transformation. An award-winning teacher, Prof. Barnett has written for Esquire, Wired, and the Washington Post. Dr. Barnett is best known as the author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. Described by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius as "a combination of Tom Friedman on globalization and Karl von Clausewitz on war," the wide-ranging volume has generated an enormous amount of reaction from around the world. From 1998 through 2004, Prof. Barnett was a Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, where he taught and served in a senior advisory role. From November 2001 to June of 2003, Dr. Barnett was on temporary assignment as the Assistant for Strategic Futures, Office of Force Transformation (OFT), where he worked on a cluster of strategic concepts that link change in the international security environment to the imperative of transforming U.S. military capabilities to meet future threats. Dr. Barnett has published a number of articles explaining these strategic concepts, which he presented in "what may be history's most famous Pentagon briefing," a briefing he has delivered over 500 times worldwide. In addition to his bestselling book, the most complete descriptions of the brief in print are "Mr. President, Here's How to Make Sense of our Iraq Strategy," (Esquire, June 2004), "Global Transaction Strategy," with Dr Henry H. Gaffney, Jr (Military Officer, May 2003), and "The Pentagon's New Map" (Esquire, March 2003). At the Naval War College, Dr. Barnett served as Director of the New Rule Sets Project, an ambitious effort to draw new "maps" of power and influence in the world economy so as to expand the U.S. Military's – and specifically, the U.S. Navy's – vision of where and how it can wield maximum influence across the international security environment of the Era of Globalization. Prior to this study, Dr. Barnett directed the Year 2000 International Security Dimension Project. Previously, Dr. Barnett served as a Project Director in the two major divisions of The CNA Corporation (CNAC). While at CNA he served as a member of the Naval Force Capabilities Planning Effort that developed the new strategic concepts eventually published in the Navy’s White Paper . . . From The Sea for which he was one of the co-authors of the first draft. Professor Barnett has a BA (Honors) from the University of Wisconsin with a double-major in Russian Language and Literature and International Relations (emphasis—U.S. Foreign Policy). Dr. Barnett earned an AM in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia and a PhD in Political Science (major—International Relations; minor—Comparative Politics) from Harvard University. Adapted from www.thomaspmbarnett.com which also contains links to many of the above mentioned publications. |
