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ARTICLE: Global Movements and Operationalal Support Hub Concept: Global Reach for the Canadian Forces (pdf), By Lieutenant Colonel Roy C. Bacot (USAF), Canadian Air Force Journal, Summer 2009, Vol. 2, No. 3

In this extensive article, Bacot takes PNM and Foreign Policy's Failed States Index and uses them to suggest where Canada's military should develop expeditionary operations.

Here's the major part about Tom:

In his book The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century and as shown in Figure 14, Thomas Barnett identified a region that he referred to as "the Non-Integrating Gap." Barnett's analysis is that a significant part of the world has been disconnected from the global economy and consequently from the benefits (and strictures) of globalization. He also identifies the zone of functioning states. These states are part of the global economy in that they share and increase wealth through trade and the introduction of common legal, political and economic policies (that in turn permit the freer flow of wealth in the economy thus continuing the increase in wealth). Barnett sees the threat to the United States coming from those countries that are not part of the "functioning core" of the globalization. He believes that these nations are likely to descend into a chaos that supports terrorism or can provide a base for those that do. Consequently, they become the "expeditionary theatre for the U.S. military in the twenty-first century."5

Cool stuff.