Thomas PM Barnett

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Thomas Barnett

Thomas PM Barnett (* 1962 in Chilton , Wisconsin ) is an American researcher in the field of military strategy.

Life

Barnett grew up in Boscobel , Wisconsin (USA). A distant relative, Major General George Barnett , was the commandant of the United States Marines during World War I (1914-1918).

Thomas Barnett studied Russian Language and Literature and International Relations at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He then completed a master's degree in regional science at Harvard, where he finally received a doctorate in political science.

From 1998 to 2004 Barnett was a professor at the US Naval War College . One of his projects examined how the advancing globalization is changing the rules of the game of international security and, in particular, what effect these changes have on the role of the US military, which traditionally secures US economic ties in the world. The working meetings took place in the rooms of the financial services provider Cantor Fitzgerald in World Trade Center 1, which were destroyed on September 11, 2001. In response to the attacks, the US Secretary of Defense created an office to transform the armed forces; Tom Barnett was also one of the staff.

In March 2008, Barnett published an article in Esquire magazine that drew Admiral William Fallon in opposition to the Bush administration. This led to Fallon's resignation as Chief of Central Command .

From 2010 to 2015 he was chief analyst at Wikistrat, a global network of around 2000 consultants that was founded in Australia in 2009.

Political importance

Even before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001 , Barnett had portrayed radical Islam as a possible future main enemy of the world power USA. This theoretical approach initially met with little interest, but surprisingly gained in importance through the events of September 11, 2001. The first geostrategic results were presented to the then US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in March 2002 .

Fonts

  • Romanian and East German policies in the Third World. Comparing the strategies of Ceaușescu and Honecker. Praeger, 1992, ISBN 0275941175 .
  • The Pentagon's new world map. With a list of future sources of conflict and points of intervention. In: Sheets for German and international politics . 5/2003, pp. 554–564 (also in Blätter for German and international politics (ed.): Quo vadis, Amerika? Die Welt nach Bush. Blätter-Verlagsgesellschaft, Bonn / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9804925-4 -6 ).
  • The Pentagon's New Map. War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century. GP Putnam's Sons, 2004, ISBN 0399151753 .
  • The road to world dictatorship - war and peace in the 21st century. The strategy of the Pentagon (translation of The Pentagon's New Map. War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century.) JK-Fischer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3941956513
  • Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating. GP Putnam's Sons, 2005, ISBN 0399153128 .
  • Script for the 3rd World War - The future new world order (translation of Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating) JK-Fischer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3941956490
  • Great Powers: America and the World after Bush. GP Putnam's Sons, 2009, ISBN 0399155376 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://thomaspmbarnett.com/us-naval-war-college-projects/
  2. ↑ http://thomaspmbarnett.com/projects/newrulesset/nrs_index.html ( Memento of July 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/11/ST2008031102008.html
  4. ↑ Thomas PM Barnett: My best explanation of Wikistrat yet . Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thomas PM Barnett: Thomas PM Barnett on Twitter . Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ About Wikis Trat . Wikistrat. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Barnett, Thomas PM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American researcher in the field of military strategy
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chilton , Wisconsin