Senior Managing Director, Enterra Solutions
This is my personal weblog. As such, the views expressed here are my own.
Archives
- 2009.07.04: Happy Independence Day
- 2009.07.03: Weblog business
- 2009.07.03: Walking in Memphis (and environs)
- 2009.07.03: GP in paperback
- 2009.07.03: Army broke fewer laws than Zelaya
- 2009.07.03: Nice overview on Kirkuk
- 2009.07.03: China's mileage standards target foreign firms? You don't say!
- 2009.07.03: The Economist article on farmland buys
- 2009.07.03: The Army gets it
- 2009.07.03: About time for a tipping point in SOUTH Korea
- 2009.07.02: 10 Reminders for Obama on His (Somewhat Useless) Trip to Russia
- 2009.07.02: A good sign of success in the Army's rapid evolution toward its SysAdmin past/future: the counter-skewering of straw men has begun
- 2009.07.02: The soft sell on AFRICOM is the best sell
- 2009.07.02: Latest length of Great Firewall delayed
- 2009.07.02: Jobs, jobs, jobs
- 2009.07.02: Let's take the fight to Kim
- 2009.07.02: Taiwan's opposition party looking even worse
- 2009.07.02: Big men and drugs
- 2009.07.01: Neither 'Islamic' nor a 'republic'
- 2009.07.01: US drawdown results in more violence
- 2009.07.01: Good piece on our nukes
- 2009.07.01: Non-Chavez in Honduras
- 2009.07.01: Interesting reality-TV trend in Indonesia
- 2009.07.01: Why closing Times Square to traffic is brilliant
- 2009.07.01: The continuing bad idea of the draft
- 2009.07.01: Super-empowered Nigerians, higher oil
- 2009.06.30: The third pole in Iranian politics is the one that interests me
- 2009.06.30: AAA = Old Core, BBB- to AA+ = New Core, BB+ and below = Gap
- 2009.06.30: The highest yields on bonds = New Core
- 2009.06.30: The undeniable prison state
- 2009.06.30: Strategic communications aren't trusted--as a rule
- 2009.06.30: The first real American ambassador to Iraq
- 2009.06.30: Clearly Obama's Achilles' heel
- 2009.06.30: The op-ed I've been waiting for regarding gay marriage
- 2009.06.29: Tom on The Leading Edge today
- 2009.06.29: Tom's on the radio this afternoon
- 2009.06.29: The ultimate in SysAdmin commitment
- 2009.06.29: Pentagon Swaps 'Lesser Includeds' for 'Greater Inclusive'
- 2009.06.29: More than one Iranian bomb
- 2009.06.29: Tehran and oppression
- 2009.06.29: How authoritarian is Iran?
- 2009.06.29: Blame Britain
- 2009.06.29: The importance of Iranian women protesters
- 2009.06.29: Being a woman inside the Gap really sucks, Part (whatever)
- 2009.06.29: Great overview of the great globalization build-out going on inside China
- 2009.06.29: The inevitable cap-and-trade on CO2 in America
- 2009.06.28: Tom around the web
- 2009.06.27: Tumult in Iran, and happiness
- 2009.06.27: Victory in stability and oil sales
- 2009.06.26: A list of reasons why I don't support strategic missile defense
- 2009.06.26: Kyrgyzstan kudos
- 2009.06.26: Stalinist Iran
- 2009.06.26: Obama's courage on the Israeli settlements issue
- 2009.06.26: Sunni v. Shia realpolitik
- 2009.06.26: Pomfret speaks wisely on Tiananmen 20 years later
- 2009.06.26: New Core = new engine for global recovery
- 2009.06.26: A worthy protest against the Chinese government
- 2009.06.25: Why Ahmadinejad Is Better for the U.S. Than Moussavi
- 2009.06.25: The always intelligent Seib on Iran and the election
- 2009.06.25: The bad news on business in Iran
- 2009.06.25: A more straightforward sign that Israel seeks to contain U.S.
- 2009.06.25: The Supreme Leader not so supreme anymore
- 2009.06.25: Good breakdown of power flows in Iran
- 2009.06.25: Ross moves up
- 2009.06.25: Israel prefers clarity in Tehran
- 2009.06.25: Institutionalized religion never really works with democracy
- 2009.06.25: The military coup in Iran--one argument
- 2009.06.25: Clear out of sight
- 2009.06.24: Aloha Maginot!
- 2009.06.24: Regarding Obama's increasing "tougher stance"
- 2009.06.24: The goal: tarnish Iran's current regime as much as possible
- 2009.06.24: The picture-perfect martyr
- 2009.06.24: Clerics joining the protests
- 2009.06.24: Ahmadinejad not to be sworn in until August
- 2009.06.24: Only Ahmadinejad can go to America
- 2009.06.24: Brooks on Iran's fragility
- 2009.06.24: Brezhnevian Iran--see the film
- 2009.06.24: Why globalization wins in Iran--in the end
- 2009.06.23: Iran's reactions
- 2009.06.23: Supporting what comes next in Iran
- 2009.06.23: Why I remain hopeful on Iran
- 2009.06.23: NKorea: like Obama's take and a wish
- 2009.06.23: Obama's economic priorities
- 2009.06.23: China's NOC finds a strange amount of economic democracy in Iraq--aka farmers
- 2009.06.23: How about Afghanistan in the context of everything else?
- 2009.06.23: A rough equivalent of a slide I use in the brief
- 2009.06.23: One reason why I believe in Nigeria as a regional pillar for West Africa
- 2009.06.22: Tom around the web
- 2009.06.22: Matching Up Priorities in a Globalized Age
- 2009.06.22: Editor's Note: the Iran posts
- 2009.06.22: Now the real crackdown begins ...
- 2009.06.22: The mullahs are afraid
- 2009.06.22: How is Iran changing?
- 2009.06.22: Israeli companies have no choice but to go global
- 2009.06.22: Wow! Putting jihadists in detention works 85% of the time!
- 2009.06.22: Nice piece that echoes a favorite argument of mine on the middle class
- 2009.06.20: The Green Dam is "repaired"
- 2009.06.20: Bolton's breakdown on Israeli strikes--a green light subtly lit
- 2009.06.20: The local debt build-up in China--yet another hidden deficit?
- 2009.06.19: Obama not wrong on North Korea
- 2009.06.19: Netanyahu's refusable offer
- 2009.06.19: Down with capitalism! (sort of)
- 2009.06.19: Cool when "black swans" can be predicted so far in advance that entire hedge funds can be set up in advance to take advantage!
- 2009.06.19: The military aid we waste in Afghanistan is different than the aid we waste in Pakistan, but the sum effect is scary
- 2009.06.19: Let the talking begin, and the missile defense shield lag
- 2009.06.18: Why Obama Should Let Iran's 'Red-State' Die On Its Own
- 2009.06.18: Power to the tweets
- 2009.06.18: Asian values on display: the runaway brides phenom
- 2009.06.18: First Bank of Nokia
- 2009.06.18: Release the Miami hounds!
- 2009.06.18: The solution on Afghanistan is the long build
- 2009.06.18: Impending Indian train wreck
- 2009.06.17: Body counts are a different measure in warfare against individuals
- 2009.06.17: COther shoe--the more profitable one--drops on cyberwar
- 2009.06.17: Hong Kong's membership in a larger China: the liberty maintained for now, but the elections still postponed
- 2009.06.17: What's the point of serving in the European Parliament? Maybe the expense accounts?
- 2009.06.17: The weak tug of Tiananmen among China's youth
- 2009.06.17: Getting Islamabad to own all of Pakistan
- 2009.06.17: The rolodex is a powerful COIN weapon
- 2009.06.17: Cato on the drug war
- 2009.06.17: First China pix
- 2009.06.17: Trying to catch up on events in Iran -- from China
- 2009.06.16: Twitter facilitates revolution
- 2009.06.16: Steve on Fox Business tv
- 2009.06.16: A two-thirds Catholic majority in the Supreme Court? Not quite
- 2009.06.16: Was the recent era THAT bad in terms of innovation? Will the next be different?
- 2009.06.16: The discipline afforded by a global market is applied against the U.S. dollar--for the good
- 2009.06.16: Iranian election aftermath
- 2009.06.16: What hath America wrought
- 2009.06.16: America's strange diversity
- 2009.06.16: Sri Lanka as pearl
- 2009.06.15: Drones and the Re-symmetricized Battlefield [link fixed]
- 2009.06.15: Ahmadinejad aftermath
- 2009.06.15: Progress in Pakistan
- 2009.06.15: Jeffersonian India doesn't do cities well
- 2009.06.15: China still dirtier, but working to clean up faster too
- 2009.06.15: The beginning of the monster age
- 2009.06.15: It's not protectionism when we do it, it's simply antitrust enforcement
- 2009.06.15: AFRICOM can help nations punch at a higher weight
- 2009.06.14: Swine fl(u/ight) precautions
- 2009.06.13: The Chinese web-filter brouhaha
- 2009.06.13: Petraeus on Afghanistan
- 2009.06.13: The review copy I would have welcomed
- 2009.06.12: The Romanian scenario for the DPRK
- 2009.06.12: True, we could have a defense budget that's half as large--if all we did was defense
- 2009.06.12: A global car market demands globe-spanning brands
- 2009.06.12: Australia's sticking to its guns, and it's 20th-century mindset
- 2009.06.12: Feeling less bad about leaving RI
- 2009.06.12: The wormhole between Britain and Pakistan/Bangladesh examined
- 2009.06.12: Chinese still want a U.S. education
- 2009.06.12: So long as the Middle East has no competitive religious landscape, it cannot join globalization in any meaningful way
- 2009.06.11: How NASA Can Keep Up with Star Trek (and China) in Space
- 2009.06.11: DeAngelis is on Fox News' Cavuto show tonight at 6pm
- 2009.06.11: An Enterra milestone reached in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- 2009.06.11: Movies infilitrate Riyadh
- 2009.06.11: Greed will bring us together
- 2009.06.11: New Zealand, lead goose, er, cow
- 2009.06.11: Even those in the Gap become slaves of their conveniences
- 2009.06.11: Handicapping future global reserves
- 2009.06.10: Impressive correction
- 2009.06.10: Perfect Prius
- 2009.06.10: A good sign of the coming flu non-apocalypse
- 2009.06.10: We'll always have 20XX!
- 2009.06.10: The Maoists today live only outside China
- 2009.06.10: Why it will take time for the global economy to recover, and why the current structural imbalance will change
- 2009.06.09: Look to the Iranian people for peace
- 2009.06.09: How important is the two-state solution?
- 2009.06.09: Push back
- 2009.06.09: The upside of losing your geo-spatial privacy
- 2009.06.09: The obvious reason why immigrants are entrepreneurs
- 2009.06.09: As the father of two daughters, some scary stats on rape investigations in U.S.
- 2009.06.09: More serious coverage of the emerging U.S. cybersecurity approach
- 2009.06.08: Redefining Catastrophe in a Globalized World
- 2009.06.08: Chimerica--great while it lasted(?)
- 2009.06.08: On the other hand, Baghdad lets the Kurds export their own oil
- 2009.06.08: Afghan strategy bigger than war
- 2009.06.08: Sensible move by China re: Taiwan: a sign of how well the rapprochment must be going
- 2009.06.08: Good move by Asia before the next System Perturbation
- 2009.06.08: Moving the global middle class
- 2009.06.08: The restructuring in America will be great
- 2009.06.07: Tom around the web
- 2009.06.06: Uzbekistan: the next apartment over
- 2009.06.06: Mattis: 'persistent engagement', not 'persistent conflict'
- 2009.06.05: Obama's speech: thumbs up
- 2009.06.05: Klein on Gates--recalling my FP.com quote on Gates' selection
- 2009.06.05: Nice overview of better-than-waterboarding approaches
- 2009.06.05: Stavridis continues to roll
- 2009.06.05: The flow of money: crucial to globalization
- 2009.06.05: The stunning amount of student deaths in the China quake
- 2009.06.05: I didn't know the man, but I borrowed his stage once at Las Vegas
- 2009.06.05: Technology finds a way round the Great Firewall of China
- 2009.06.04: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Obama's Cairo Rhetoric Could Really Unfold
- 2009.06.04: Chinese Navy expressing interest in emulating US Navy humanitarian missions
- 2009.06.04: What's Chinese for MOOTW?
- 2009.06.04: Military talks with Syria
- 2009.06.04: The adaptive capabilities of the Chinese Capitalist Party, as sung (lips firmly attached to ass) by Banyan, Chief Suck-Up Officer for the Economist
- 2009.06.04: Blurred vision map
- 2009.06.04: Cry of the heart for DoEE
- 2009.06.04: Belle of the Brazilian ball
- 2009.06.04: Imagine
- 2009.06.03: Kim's youngest son = heir
- 2009.06.03: D'oh! Another clue as to why Iran counts!
- 2009.06.03: Another glimpse of the basic dynamic in the Iranian election
- 2009.06.03: Short term depressing, but long term positive in Iran
- 2009.06.03: The cyberwar punchline finally delivered by USG
- 2009.06.03: All war is assassination--just delivered on an industrial scale
- 2009.06.03: Nice Economist editorial on Kim Jong Il and the wider dangers his continued rule represents
- 2009.06.03: The paradox of Pakistans
- 2009.06.03: How can a global surveillance system be a bad idea when it comes to health?
- 2009.06.03: Our prosperity is linked to world prosperity; it's just that our aid isn't linked to economic development
- 2009.06.03: China mining confronting local blowback in Vietnam
- 2009.06.03: The Americanization of the Holocaust: did FDR try more than known?
- 2009.06.03: Another piece on the U.S.-China financial interdependency that suggests both sides are maturing in their thinking
- 2009.06.03: Beautiful bit from Banyan on China's as world savior
- 2009.06.02: Pakistan results and no US casualties
- 2009.06.02: The trigger for the opening on Cuba (as always, it's greed)
- 2009.06.02: Why Iraq can explode
- 2009.06.02: Good summary piece on Kim succession issues
- 2009.06.02: Feeding the pandemic fears: wide definitions of at-risk populations
- 2009.06.02: A bit hyperbolic (title at least) but the usual good stuff on Iran from Leverett and Mann
- 2009.06.02: Is it possible to end cancer in an aging and increasingly toxic world?
- 2009.06.02: The better and smarter half
- 2009.06.02: The eyes have it
- 2009.06.02: The other shoe drops on the government cyberscare campaign
- 2009.06.02: Nice article on the Shabab (successor to Somalia's Council of Islamic Courts)
- 2009.06.01: The Unflat World of Global Food Production
- 2009.06.01: What is in a war?
- 2009.06.01: Iranian (American) politics
- 2009.06.01: Coming gig for Tom in Raleigh
- 2009.06.01: Getting the New Core going on a huge cancer pool
- 2009.05.31: Tom around the web
- 2009.05.30: Safranski on Nagl on Kilcullen
- 2009.05.30: Some green sprouts in China
- 2009.05.29: Recklessly rising India?
- 2009.05.29: Chaos expands globally as Sri Lankan war ends and women elected to Kuwaiti parliament; global economy blamed
- 2009.05.29: Betting on the coming of Iran . . . out of isolation
- 2009.05.29: Brazil: get moving!
- 2009.05.29: Geithner surviving now, thriving eventually?
- 2009.05.29: The disappearing magazine
- 2009.05.28: Four Reasons North Korea Won't Stop Being a Pain in the World's Ass
- 2009.05.28: Together again
- 2009.05.28: The Economist agrees: nice Obama balance on interrogations
- 2009.05.28: China's blue-ish water navy
- 2009.05.28: Critical take on Iraq, AFPAK
- 2009.05.28: How long it took to build the original twin towers
- 2009.05.27: Obama's SCOTUS pick
- 2009.05.27: Even as energy power, Russia looking less than impressive under Putin
- 2009.05.27: How unprepared are we for North Korea's collapse?
- 2009.05.27: The new rule set on central banks coming into fuzzy focus
- 2009.05.27: Dissecting trends in Chinese dollar holdings
- 2009.05.26: NKorea, and Obama, to be tested
- 2009.05.26: Believing in historical lessons from the Bible = good and rational and soundly strategic; doing the same with Koran = bad and irrational and messianically fanatical
- 2009.05.26: America: #1 in global manufacturing
- 2009.05.26: Nervous Norks
- 2009.05.26: The second coming of subprime
- 2009.05.26: Watching the Horn of Africa
- 2009.05.26: Further efforts from the Chinese on healthcare
- 2009.05.25: The Good News on the Global Financial Downturn
- 2009.05.25: How Egypt stays Egypt
- 2009.05.25: Share the burden, share the intell
- 2009.05.25: Elections in Asia
- 2009.05.25: Waitin' on the 4-star MP
- 2009.05.25: Accessible, sensible combat advising
- 2009.05.25: Navy needs smaller, faster boats
- 2009.05.25: China fears its own people most of all
- 2009.05.24: Tom around the web
- 2009.05.23: Iran's carrot & stick show
- 2009.05.23: Iraq may be repeatable
- 2009.05.22: Notice how we talk "upper hand" in U.S.-Israeli summits now?
- 2009.05.22: The Brazil-China axis!
- 2009.05.22: India chooses stability
- 2009.05.22: Simple and powerful
- 2009.05.22: China's (tiny) peacekeeping role
- 2009.05.22: The Navy today
- 2009.05.22: The real "assassin's mace"
- 2009.05.22: I will be buying the stereo version
- 2009.05.21: Joint Warfighting Conference Pic
- 2009.05.21: Despite Rhetoric, Obama Still Following Cheney's Lead in Dictatorial Justice
- 2009.05.21: Nobody likes a vacuum, especially in the Middle East
- 2009.05.21: Another secret banking location going under the lamp?
- 2009.05.21: A new rule set that should remain behind after the crisis, says Mallaby
- 2009.05.21: Obama's lack of drama on defense = keeping Gates on
- 2009.05.21: There's what you say and what you do
- 2009.05.21: Petraeus signaling Obama is "all in" on AFPAK
- 2009.05.21: The July Surprise scenario
- 2009.05.21: Educate yourself on SOF
- 2009.05.20: Bombing in the offing
- 2009.05.20: A good example of how Pakistan's big war mania with India has cost us and it dearly in this Long War
- 2009.05.20: Roubini on renminbi (say that fast five times in a row!)
- 2009.05.20: Iran given timetable by Obama, meanwhile Syria opens its own door
- 2009.05.20: Come together
- 2009.05.20: One calms as we ramp up, the other destabilizes as we ramp down
- 2009.05.20: Giving Mexico some credit on H1N1
- 2009.05.20: The man under the mitre
- 2009.05.19: The New Core is beginning to realize what the structural adjustment will entail
- 2009.05.19: Read it and be impressed
- 2009.05.19: Funny cartoon (Denver Post)
- 2009.05.19: Some big picture on the pandemics reality
- 2009.05.19: Yes, but a bestselling "idiot's bible"
- 2009.05.19: GM survival strategy: China, China, China
- 2009.05.19: The Swat deal works its magic--in the other direction
- 2009.05.19: Lord help the communist who comes between me and my Chinese, and Lord help the Chinese who comes between me and my dough!
- 2009.05.19: Pearlstein noticing the big picture on the global economy--as always
- 2009.05.19: The clash was between Petraeus and McKiernan, not between Gates and Petraeus
- 2009.05.18: Navy Finally Embracing Role in Small Wars
- 2009.05.18: China's financial veto
- 2009.05.18: Caldwell places Tom in the middle re: the middle
- 2009.05.18: Ditch the tribunals
- 2009.05.18: The only win comes from creating strategic despair among your enemies, and that kind of staying power is beyond our capacity alone to bear in AFPAK
- 2009.05.18: New rules coming, no doubt, and new structure of global trade as well
- 2009.05.18: Obama ending "wars" all over the place
- 2009.05.18: Obama's pick of Egypt for the big address
- 2009.05.18: As you knew it would, oil comes back up in price
- 2009.05.18: Krugman's wrong on China
- 2009.05.18: The nuclear sky is falling
- 2009.05.17: Tom around the web
- 2009.05.16: Ahmadine-jad the door!
- 2009.05.16: The SECDEF we need
- 2009.05.15: Obama the twelve-step artist reprograms America's relationship with the world
- 2009.05.15: A perfect globalization quartet of headlines across two pages
- 2009.05.15: America's Kuwait legacy: the rising star now sidelined by democratic impulses
- 2009.05.15: The danger of regulating venture capitalist firms
- 2009.05.14: Recap of Joint Warfighting Conference, Day 2
- 2009.05.14: Seven Reasons Why Obama's Nuke-Free Utopia Won't Work
- 2009.05.14: Presidential call on photo release
- 2009.05.14: Did Bush-Cheney first refuse the Sunni Awakening?
- 2009.05.14: The cumulative war spending approaches $1T
- 2009.05.14: The dirty Midwest
- 2009.05.13: VA Beach day 2 Twitter stream
- 2009.05.13: Galrahn's take from today
- 2009.05.13: First day recap of the Joint Warfighting Conference
- 2009.05.13: Glass filling up?
- 2009.05.13: Perhaps seeing something from Medvedev instead of just in Medvedev
- 2009.05.13: I want allies with big armies and growing economies
- 2009.05.13: Good year or bad, China's got the biggest IPO
- 2009.05.13: Finally, the submarine war I've been waiting on
- 2009.05.13: Missile threat? Bad as you want it to be
- 2009.05.13: The System Perturbation must have scapegoats--close by and relatively defenseless
- 2009.05.13: A gun-toting, violence-loving nation
- 2009.05.12: Virginia Beach pix
- 2009.05.12: Twitter-stream from today
- 2009.05.12: Command change in Afghanistan
- 2009.05.12: How panicked should we be about H1N1? As much as practice-able
- 2009.05.12: Jackie drops Chan's reputation with a swift kick to the mouth
- 2009.05.12: Getting ready for world with a nuclear Iran
- 2009.05.12: China both fears and protects its future
- 2009.05.12: Business before pleasure
- 2009.05.12: Hoagland on why the kinetics win never win the Long War
- 2009.05.12: Pakistan's great weakness is the same as Afghanistan's was the same as the U.S. Military's pre-Iraq
- 2009.05.12: Two for one: I want a lesbian Hispanic on the court
- 2009.05.11: When Prevention Goes Viral
- 2009.05.11: In an uncertain world, try multiple choice
- 2009.05.11: Priming the return of civil war to Iraq
- 2009.05.11: Natural car shift
- 2009.05.11: Obama's war
- 2009.05.11: Mexico pays through the nose for the flu
- 2009.05.11: Self-centered commissions
- 2009.05.11: The essential Lomborg argument on responses to global warming
- 2009.05.11: Holding hands, Pentagon-style
- 2009.05.10: Tom around the web
- 2009.05.09: Swat Valley as a rerun of Fallujah . . . 's pacification?
- 2009.05.09: You go, People's Republic of China. You go!
- 2009.05.09: The war crime that is Kim Jong Il's continued rule
- 2009.05.09: The quick assumption on Mexico as the source of H1N1
- 2009.05.08: Why the IMF matters again
- 2009.05.08: Sudan will be somebody's projects, and not just China's
- 2009.05.08: A sense of where Asian unity is
- 2009.05.08: The Economist on China's recent moves
- 2009.05.08: Same old, same old for Afghan police
- 2009.05.08: India gets by right now: a microcosm of globalization itself
- 2009.05.08: Kim showing the stroke
- 2009.05.08: Seems like a no-brainer: CIA does its own interrogations now
- 2009.05.07: Video of Tom in the HASC
- 2009.05.07: Can We Stop a Pirate 9/11?
- 2009.05.07: Welcome to tomorrow
- 2009.05.07: Doc-in-a-phone
- 2009.05.07: Making FDI happen in Iraq--the big and the small of it
- 2009.05.07: China has engineers, we have lawyers
- 2009.05.07: The wormhole between Britain and Pakistan
- 2009.05.07: Fascinating bit on rewriting bad memories before re-storing them in the brain
- 2009.05.07: Russian demography worth reading
- 2009.05.07: Quiet couldn't last
- 2009.05.07: A dynamic that will be repeated
- 2009.05.06: How 'bout a hand for the hog?
- 2009.05.06: Obama's First 100 Days: The Essential Course Correction
- 2009.05.06: Russians hoping to cash in on global rioting phenomenon
- 2009.05.06: Model Islamic school looks suspiciously Catholic
- 2009.05.06: Official: worst global economy since WWII
- 2009.05.06: China's path to leadership
- 2009.05.06: Good though intellectually biased read
- 2009.05.06: Every action, equal and opposite reaction
- 2009.05.06: Economic warfare?
- 2009.05.05: Demographic validation
- 2009.05.05: Cooking the world's oceans makes for thinner shells
- 2009.05.05: America's Cubans likewise move past the revolutionary generation
- 2009.05.05: The best defense is diversification
- 2009.05.05: Memory wipe: bring it on, J.J.!
- 2009.05.05: When the conventional wisdom is wrong
- 2009.05.05: America's competitive religious landscape still leads the way
- 2009.05.05: The Taliban truce deal on display
- 2009.05.04: More Turkey pix
- 2009.05.04: The Sadr Navy
- 2009.05.04: A second online column for Tom: World Politics Review
- 2009.05.04: Just back from China, off to Istanbul
- 2009.05.04: Pentagon's delay down
- 2009.05.04: That's Thomas P.M Barnett to you!
- 2009.05.04: The Good GM worth saving
- 2009.05.04: The PLAN's coming-out party well timed for America's threatened Leviathan platforms
- 2009.05.04: Harlem Globetrotters win again in South Africa!
- 2009.05.04: The continuing humanitarian disaster in northern Sri Lanka
- 2009.05.03: Tom around the web
- 2009.05.02: 3D jobs in Iraq: a sign of returning normalcy?
- 2009.05.02: Guess what Mullen needs
- 2009.05.02: The market for flesh-and-blood pensions in China
- 2009.05.02: Will this crisis send India to the back of the line?
- 2009.05.01: Concluding China post
- 2009.05.01: Last major service hired, first one fired?
- 2009.05.01: Brooks claiming--correctly--Obama's cultural conservatism
- 2009.05.01: Captain Kidd on trial in Manhattan
- 2009.05.01: The Manchurian bureaucrats
- 2009.05.01: Global financial crisis takes 6% off the top
- 2009.05.01: Adapting, mad as hell, but optimistic
- 2009.05.01: The anti-Obama hatred is truly weird
- 2009.05.01: Smart piece from Milken that comes closest to my preferred framing of the mistakes on the domestic side (putting aside the structural imbalance of trade globally)
- 2009.05.01: Naval War College reads "The Man Between War and Peace"
- 2009.04.30: China at the Wheel of the World: Sissy or Superpower?
- 2009.04.30: Do not go gentle into that good night
- 2009.04.30: Iran and Iraq: Who should be afraid?
- 2009.04.30: Good news from Pakistan?
- 2009.04.30: One apartment to the other
- 2009.04.30: Translating Tom's TED Talk
- 2009.04.30: Procter takes a real gamble
- 2009.04.30: The cost of doing business gets a lot higher in China
- 2009.04.30: How real the rise of American populism?
- 2009.04.29: Iran engagement
- 2009.04.29: "Soft power" --> "smart power"
- 2009.04.29: Chinese banks in Taiwan
- 2009.04.29: The Economist on the crisis/protectionism
- 2009.04.29: Communist Buddhism
- 2009.04.29: Built to fail
- 2009.04.29: Look to Brazil and China
- 2009.04.29: To be nuclear is to be Core--pun intended
- 2009.04.28: The big show at dinner theater with friends to celebrate my trip
- 2009.04.28: China: First post
- 2009.04.28: Our sketchy, patchwork system of food safety
- 2009.04.28: The shift in--demand--power
- 2009.04.28: Sleep with one eye open
- 2009.04.28: Run for president, screw your state, and don't be surprised when you don't carry
- 2009.04.28: For whom the ICC bell tolls not
- 2009.04.28: Russian oil: won't join any cartel that would have it as a member
- 2009.04.28: More on Afghanistan from my favorite combat reporter
- 2009.04.27: Beijing pix
- 2009.04.27: Wikipedia: as trust-worthy as your average big city
- 2009.04.27: Can Gates really push it through?
- 2009.04.27: IMF's changing role
- 2009.04.27: Bad signs in Pakistan
- 2009.04.27: China's biggest unfunded man-date
- 2009.04.27: A good rule change, just like in the NFL
- 2009.04.27: There is nothing more dead than a dying language
- 2009.04.26: Pic Mon morn from hotel room Beijing.
- 2009.04.26: Tom around the web
- 2009.04.25: Reasonable torture response
- 2009.04.25: Why not be influenced by other nations?
- 2009.04.24: A new regular column online at Esquire.com
- 2009.04.24: Iranian political cipher
- 2009.04.24: Don't criminalize after the fact
- 2009.04.24: If it's part of your country, it's under your control
- 2009.04.24: The Beijing Consensus isn't all that great
- 2009.04.24: How much disposable income exists for longer life? Ask Dr. Oz! (Just don't pull back the curtain!)
- 2009.04.23: That slick-as-s--t Disney working a new market
- 2009.04.23: Twitter changes everything!
- 2009.04.23: Gamal says Egyptian reforms will continue despite downturn
- 2009.04.23: Speaking of environmental upgrades . . .
- 2009.04.23: China slacking off on environmental issues just shows you how economic growth matters
- 2009.04.23: Scary cyber world requires command, czar
- 2009.04.23: SysAdmin baby steps
- 2009.04.23: Some natural capitalism at work
- 2009.04.23: Global ag prices: credit and blame globalization
- 2009.04.23: Singapore: spares the rod and spoils the theater-goer
- 2009.04.22: Links to the latest Esquire piece
- 2009.04.22: Tom on Time.com
- 2009.04.22: Tom to speak at USNI/AFCEA "Joint Warfighting Conference" in May
- 2009.04.22: Where Obama wants to take capitalism
- 2009.04.22: Be afraid!
- 2009.04.22: Iraq looking more normal
- 2009.04.22: Why electric cars will succeed in China in ways impossible--for now--in the U.S.
- 2009.04.22: Beijing issues report on improving human rights
- 2009.04.22: China's Warren Buffet--much like China--decides to start buying
- 2009.04.22: China . . . digs faster!
- 2009.04.22: The Chinese baby gap continues
- 2009.04.22: Why American companies bother hanging around in Mexico
- 2009.04.22: The Storm, about a week in
- 2009.04.21: Tom's "Why Iran Won't Stop Loving the Bomb" at Esquire.com
- 2009.04.21: Possible IMF trajectory
- 2009.04.21: Tom in Indian Express
- 2009.04.21: China's ruling party ... and one further left
- 2009.04.21: Balanced piece on "rising" China's military
- 2009.04.21: Good sign in Iraq
- 2009.04.21: Obama the free trader at heart?
- 2009.04.21: Obama, showing some boldness, in the right way
- 2009.04.21: Iraq starts to turn on the spigots
- 2009.04.21: China, which has never run anything but itself, is careful about asserting leadership--even during crisis
- 2009.04.21: Obama's charm doesn't yield instant magical results!
- 2009.04.20: When the attack finally comes, the evidence trail leading up to it will be vast
- 2009.04.20: Pleeeease: China is a capitalist, single-party state
- 2009.04.20: Talk about fueling both ends of the war
- 2009.04.20: Nice Kaplan description of the other Pakistan
- 2009.04.20: Colombia as the model for Afghanistan?
- 2009.04.20: Israel's beefed-up Leviathan capacity after Lebanon '06 bought them a non-fight from Hamas in 2009
- 2009.04.20: The Obama moves at OAS
- 2009.04.20: Seven fat years, Joseph told Pharoah, to be followed by seven lean years
- 2009.04.20: Decision 2009
- 2009.04.20: The embryonic rule set for an Asian Union
- 2009.04.19: The Obama "doctrine"--sort of
- 2009.04.19: Tom around the web
- 2009.04.18: Cool idea on Cuba: Tear down our wall at Gitmo!
- 2009.04.18: China playing this crisis awfully well on the economic front
- 2009.04.18: Yea! We got the Americans!
- 2009.04.18: The Gates Road Show
- 2009.04.18: Iraqi tension
- 2009.04.17: Grand strategy is not about curing the world by the next national election
- 2009.04.17: Kaplan's three navies
- 2009.04.17: More good Cohen on Iran, to include a long-used bit of mine
- 2009.04.17: Obama's leadership so far
- 2009.04.17: Expanding the near-convertibility of the yuan
- 2009.04.17: The Chinese stimulus package: Is it starting to work?
- 2009.04.17: Breaker! Breaker! Let's get this convoy on the seas!
- 2009.04.17: More evidence of why Pakistan should learn plenty from its most recent truce with the Taliban
- 2009.04.17: China starts its own early version of dollar diplomacy in the region
- 2009.04.17: Too cute from WSJ's Stephens
- 2009.04.16: Links to the latest Esquire piece
- 2009.04.16: The drum beat continues on the USG's cyber-security review
- 2009.04.16: A new low in the definition of "chaos"
- 2009.04.16: A good sign: further expansion of security ties/cooperation with India
- 2009.04.16: Fly-over states are more conservative; they're also--surprisingly--more tolerant
- 2009.04.16: Worth a try, but don't imagine the nationalism goes away with contact
- 2009.04.16: Islam is winning the only battle that counts
- 2009.04.16: Harlem Globetrotters hold on in Malaysia
- 2009.04.16: Terrorism remains a demand function--best treated at the source
- 2009.04.15: The Great Powers Reading Group ends
- 2009.04.15: Final Hugh stint for GP
- 2009.04.15: And again
- 2009.04.15: Tom in the EB
- 2009.04.15: Like Obama's move on Cuba
- 2009.04.15: It was all a pack of lies! I tell you! Or maybe just the usual overbuild
- 2009.04.15: GM "rescue": blend the best, discard the rest
- 2009.04.15: I'm more impressed when you don't get caught
- 2009.04.15: CERA on the reverse oil shock
- 2009.04.15: The American connection draws because it develops
- 2009.04.15: Russia does the Japanese two-step on its demo-decline
- 2009.04.15: Why DiB™ is inherently a private sector affair
- 2009.04.14: Signed the contract to publish "Blueprint for Action" in China
- 2009.04.14: Tom's "Inside the War Against Robert Gates" at Esquire.com
- 2009.04.14: Nuclear synergy simply works for North Korea
- 2009.04.14: Get used to this tune on Iran from the Right
- 2009.04.14: WTO: correcting on the correction in global trade
- 2009.04.14: The persistence of Iraqi dangers
- 2009.04.14: The good and the bad
- 2009.04.14: Just how out of "alignment" is the IMF?
- 2009.04.14: The political trickle-down reality of Kurdistan
- 2009.04.14: Old hatreds never die, they just get pushed aside in the search for new profits
- 2009.04.13: Future Somali intervention
- 2009.04.13: China, holding all the strings on North Korea, has no great strategic incentives to yank them on America's timetable
- 2009.04.13: All those nuclear, non-weaponized states
- 2009.04.13: Q&A: U.S.-China bilat?
- 2009.04.13: Video: Did you know?
- 2009.04.13: Sanctions on Iran I would support
- 2009.04.13: How does the EU manage a bigger FTA deal with South Korea than America's?
- 2009.04.13: Don't be a drama queen
- 2009.04.12: Great Powers Reading Group: Coda
- 2009.04.12: Tom around the web
- 2009.04.11: Long chess game, yielding cool excerpt
- 2009.04.11: 15 with Larry went nicely
- 2009.04.11: Again, banning nuclear weapons is a foolish dream and a waste of Obama's limited political capital in national security affairs
- 2009.04.11: The importance of food safety grows
- 2009.04.11: SysAdmin infiltrating the Navy
- 2009.04.11: Mr Castro, tear down that wall
- 2009.04.10: The Storm has arrived
- 2009.04.10: Tom on Kudlow
- 2009.04.10: Leading the world: China's best route is still its own development
- 2009.04.10: Latest NEFA report
- 2009.04.10: News to me: Krugman diagnoses the current crisis without emotion while Brooks overindulges
- 2009.04.10: Fresh start? Great, but let's revisit the Georgian cease-fire agreement
- 2009.04.10: Let Russia into NATO
- 2009.04.10: Act our age
- 2009.04.10: Striking example of DoEE
- 2009.04.10: Survival of the fittest language
- 2009.04.09: Going on Larry Kudlow's WABC radio show this Sat
- 2009.04.09: Obama: pre-approved for terrorist strikes by Cheney
- 2009.04.09: Now, that's Rich!
- 2009.04.09: Blessed republic
- 2009.04.09: Budget breakdown
- 2009.04.09: China opens a little more
- 2009.04.09: China-Argentina bilat
- 2009.04.09: Processing pirates
- 2009.04.09: Sea change
- 2009.04.08: How to dull the strategic brain
- 2009.04.08: Welch on populist rage
- 2009.04.08: Obama's Turkey sea change
- 2009.04.08: Gates' direct attack
- 2009.04.08: Kurds will probably have to give
- 2009.04.08: We need China to grow up
- 2009.04.08: SysAdmin from the Gap
- 2009.04.08: Dora grows older because that zero-to-5 demographic migrates upward
- 2009.04.07: When the going gets tough, the tough go informal
- 2009.04.07: Obama goes to bat for Turkey
- 2009.04.07: Long live nukes
- 2009.04.07: The sacred Leviathan
- 2009.04.07: Obama's trip
- 2009.04.07: Funky idea on housing
- 2009.04.07: The remittances fall, meaning Latin America will suffer
- 2009.04.07: Not bad for a guy with "too many ideas"
- 2009.04.06: Tom at the Citadel
- 2009.04.06: Live 2Nite on the BBC World Service (radio)
- 2009.04.06: Gates takes a stand
- 2009.04.06: The coming storm
- 2009.04.06: The Arab SWFs return . . . to bottom feed as they should
- 2009.04.06: Why this is inherently a structural crisis
- 2009.04.06: Trading ground for time
- 2009.04.06: Why Obama is right to focus on healthcare and education
- 2009.04.06: For list lovers: big business ideas by decade
- 2009.04.06: IBM plans for global domination . . .
- 2009.04.06: When does C.K. Prahalad get his Nobel?
- 2009.04.05: Great Powers Chapter 8 Reading Group
- 2009.04.05: Column 148: the last
- 2009.04.04: Thanks for the help on the layout
- 2009.04.04: Gates payoff
- 2009.04.04: A new sort of supply-chain resilience
- 2009.04.04: A SOA world rewards service-oriented companies
- 2009.04.03: Anyone else having trouble with the weblog?
- 2009.04.03: What would it be like if terrorists launched random shooting sprees all over America in chaotic, intermittent pattern?
- 2009.04.03: Good news at last
- 2009.04.03: Where the Brief began
- 2009.04.03: Stavridis, COIN and Colombia
- 2009.04.03: Stimulating Asia the right way
- 2009.04.03: When markets work, and when they don't
- 2009.04.03: Turkey's new accountability re: missing Kurds
- 2009.04.02: China's own know they're not pros yet
- 2009.04.02: Tom in the New Atlanticist
- 2009.04.02: So much for China's web censors!
- 2009.04.02: IBM moving into broader SysAdmin work
- 2009.04.02: The fast and the getting-closer-to-furious in the Kingdom
- 2009.04.01: Simplification
- 2009.04.01: Hopefully Iraq:SysAdmin::AFPAK:DoEE
- 2009.04.01: Calling a spade a spade
- 2009.04.01: Cuba: the possibilities
- 2009.04.01: Imagine that! A weapon designed to "kill"!
- 2009.04.01: Risk-averse navy = gold-plated ships
- 2009.04.01: The muddling-through option in China is not to be misunderestimated
- 2009.04.01: Afghanistan SysAdmin 2.0
- 2009.03.31: Forget my musings from last night!
- 2009.03.31: Tom's discussions with Hugh Hewitt
- 2009.03.31: Beware a too narrow AFPAK agenda
- 2009.03.31: Iraq realpolitik
- 2009.03.31: An easy prediction on IMF
- 2009.03.31: Perfect example of the accepted enclave stepping over the unacceptable line
- 2009.03.30: The great Hewitt series (buy all 17 volumes for this low, low price!) is complete--for now
- 2009.03.30: The real struggle in the gulf
- 2009.03.30: Bush, Obama tactics: not that different
- 2009.03.30: The world's a safer place
- 2009.03.30: GP in Pinehurst
- 2009.03.30: Tom on Hugh for GP chapter 7
- 2009.03.30: Tom around the web
- 2009.03.29: Great Powers Chapter 7 Reading Group
- 2009.03.29: Tom in SC
- 2009.03.29: Column 147
- 2009.03.28: A first for me
- 2009.03.28: Shoot-down?
- 2009.03.28: The Kurdistan squeeze
- 2009.03.28: Core doctrinal change
- 2009.03.27: Tom on BBC
- 2009.03.27: Tom on CT radio tomorrow
- 2009.03.27: Having listened to the HASC subcommittee audio
- 2009.03.27: HASC encouragement
- 2009.03.27: Actually, that Raytheon globe is way cool
- 2009.03.27: Other coverage of Tom's HASC appearance
- 2009.03.27: Tom in the NL press
- 2009.03.27: HRC: tell it like it is
- 2009.03.27: These Are Books I Would Add To A SysAdmin Library
- 2009.03.27: 14 years and counting for Chavez
- 2009.03.26: Listen and weep: Tom testifies to HASC subcommittee on Seapower
- 2009.03.26: Busy day
- 2009.03.26: Tom's testimony today
- 2009.03.26: The compression of time in China
- 2009.03.26: Coke overreach?
- 2009.03.26: Protection racket
- 2009.03.26: Tom in Policy Innovations
- 2009.03.26: Do we feel enough pain?
- 2009.03.26: We traded 'Global War on Terror' for this?
- 2009.03.26: The Economist on the Kurds' rising anxiety
- 2009.03.26: The end of pleasant surprises?
- 2009.03.26: The next redefinition of global supply chains
- 2009.03.26: The eco-migrants: new name for age-old process
- 2009.03.25: Prager--sweet and short
- 2009.03.25: Reminder: Tom on Dennis Prager today
- 2009.03.25: Study of Israeli strikes on Iran
- 2009.03.25: Galrahn's preview of Tom's Thursday testimony
- 2009.03.25: Rwandan hope
- 2009.03.25: Iranian sangfroid
- 2009.03.25: Consultant drop
- 2009.03.25: The rise of a third global currency
- 2009.03.25: No room at the union
- 2009.03.25: Sudan contract? No problem
- 2009.03.25: Chinese collective values
- 2009.03.25: Frontier innovation
- 2009.03.24: Tom on Sins of Omission
- 2009.03.24: Economist echoes my baseline points on China
- 2009.03.24: Nice point from Roger Cohen on Iran
- 2009.03.24: Chavez sends military against his political opponents
- 2009.03.24: Latest on starving North Koreans
- 2009.03.24: Small expectations
- 2009.03.24: Continued one-off eradication
- 2009.03.24: 54 states!
- 2009.03.24: Better connected = better correction
- 2009.03.24: The times, they are a-changin'
- 2009.03.24: Two more nits for GP
- 2009.03.23: Tom's on internet radio tonight
- 2009.03.23: My sarcasm is lost on the Chinese
- 2009.03.23: Becker interview: chicken soup for the market soul
- 2009.03.23: When you've developed to the point that you turn the IMF down--even under duress
- 2009.03.23: All the Ayatollah cares about
- 2009.03.23: Payback on our stupidity
- 2009.03.23: Enclaves could work
- 2009.03.23: Tom at Danger Room
- 2009.03.23: Keep hoping for Chinese infrastructure
- 2009.03.23: China's bigger threat
- 2009.03.23: Sometimes temporary last forever
- 2009.03.23: Good stuff from Grandpa Wen
- 2009.03.22: Great Powers Reading Group Chapter 6
- 2009.03.22: Decent read on the exchange with Iran
- 2009.03.22: Column 146
- 2009.03.21: Aunt Mary, what do you think of the grey background?
- 2009.03.21: Don't panic
- 2009.03.21: Beginning to see how far we'll end up going on AFPAK
- 2009.03.21: Good Obama foreign policy, bad Obama foreign policy
- 2009.03.21: Which would you take?
- 2009.03.20: Tom with Dennis Prager will be Wednesday, not Monday
- 2009.03.20: Obama's video appeal to Iran
- 2009.03.20: Finally, something other than a frickin' style review of Great Powers! (Asia Times)
- 2009.03.20: The military's independence still holds
- 2009.03.20: Well, that's certainly the start of a different sort of discussion on Iraq
- 2009.03.20: Talking is good
- 2009.03.20: Just like in the EU, China's reunification dreams suffer when times get hard
- 2009.03.20: Turn loose the super-empowered diplomats
- 2009.03.20: Good idea, but unlikely
- 2009.03.19: Tom from Tavis' show [updated]
- 2009.03.19: Tom's Carnegie Council transcript now available
- 2009.03.19: Tom around the web
- 2009.03.19: Testifying before House HASC subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces
- 2009.03.19: Don't forget...
- 2009.03.19: No Hugh this week, but Dennis Prager live Monday
- 2009.03.19: Cease efforts on Smiley taping
- 2009.03.19: Everything looks better--rank-wise--after a TV appearance
- 2009.03.19: Worth the old Russian try
- 2009.03.19: Muslims in America: thriving but nervous
- 2009.03.19: Some turning inward makes sense, when it comes to Asian domestic demand
- 2009.03.19: Starts in Old Core, spreads to New, but Gap is final destination
- 2009.03.19: ONI restructure
- 2009.03.18: Happy with Smiley show
- 2009.03.18: Tom on Tavis tonight?
- 2009.03.18: The IMF reinvention vision
- 2009.03.18: Afghan women's gains: always at risk
- 2009.03.18: China exposes itself to a bit more monetary risk
- 2009.03.18: The best anti-drug legalization argument I've yet encountered
- 2009.03.18: One country's crisis is another country's opportunity
- 2009.03.18: "Making flippy-floppy, trying to do my best ..."
- 2009.03.18: Iranian realities
- 2009.03.18: When peace is bad
- 2009.03.18: Why Sovereign Wealth Funds are globalization's best friend
- 2009.03.18: How much is Saudi Arabia trying to change?
- 2009.03.17: Tom on Tavis
- 2009.03.17: Tom on Book TV
- 2009.03.17: Tom's on the web right now
- 2009.03.17: Africa: The ICC is picking on you for a reason
- 2009.03.17: The US-China tight rope
- 2009.03.17: Let's compromise on the recession response
- 2009.03.17: The road not yet taken on Syria
- 2009.03.17: Manning the mini-forts on globalization's nasty frontier
- 2009.03.17: The perfect mix of big firms surrounded by entrepreneurial start-ups
- 2009.03.17: Count me out for 2009 on paying more to Uncle Sam, but I'm listening . . .
- 2009.03.17: Another sensible call to end the War on Drugs
- 2009.03.17: The beginnings of serious great-power economic cooperation in Asia
- 2009.03.17: Hard line on Chavez? Why the hell not?
- 2009.03.16: A lot more sanguine about Clinton as SECSTATE
- 2009.03.16: One of the many dangers of so much public borrowing
- 2009.03.16: The de-globalization impulse
- 2009.03.16: Secy Clinton: moving beyond Rice's talking-points style
- 2009.03.16: I say again, Clinton's approach on China is the right one
- 2009.03.16: A sense of the gap between our judicial rule-set on terror and the rest of the Old Core
- 2009.03.16: Calling Ellery Qigong
- 2009.03.16: The rise of the SysAdmin Industrial Complex
- 2009.03.16: Dare I say it thrice? I like the new pick for Commerce!
- 2009.03.16: Say goodbye to China's Tuckers
- 2009.03.15: Great Powers Reading Group Chapter 5
- 2009.03.15: Column 145
- 2009.03.14: Tom at the Carnegie Council
- 2009.03.14: The Economist overview on AFPAK
- 2009.03.14: China's untapped domestic market is more rural than urban
- 2009.03.14: Chinese jump
- 2009.03.13: Tom latest article for Good
- 2009.03.13: That emerging middle class keeps growing in its demand and ambition
- 2009.03.13: Why criminalize a fraction of drug use?
- 2009.03.13: Only in America (Freeman's withdrawal)
- 2009.03.13: Backlash against the 'red' rich
- 2009.03.13: China in Afghanistan
- 2009.03.13: Hispanics outpace African-Americans as federal prisoners
- 2009.03.13: The five principles of Cold War nukes still hold today
- 2009.03.13: Old India v. New India
- 2009.03.13: Seriously, send in the Magnificent Seven
- 2009.03.12: Economist's interview with Tom
- 2009.03.12: Tom's going to be on the radio today
- 2009.03.12: Selling ice boxes to eskimos
- 2009.03.12: Cooperating with Russia on nukes
- 2009.03.12: The Right got Freeman's scalp
- 2009.03.12: ZenPundit's review of GP
- 2009.03.12: Want to stay out of the nursing home? Put on this tracking bracelet
- 2009.03.12: The faster you try to catch-up by connecting-up, the wilder the ride--to be sure
- 2009.03.12: China's breadbasket goes dry
- 2009.03.12: Why "buy American" convinces others around the world to do exactly the opposite
- 2009.03.12: Keeping the 300 million under mouse arrest
- 2009.03.11: Don't forget GP Reading Group
- 2009.03.11: Getting to meet Tavis Smiley
- 2009.03.11: GP in the Charleston Post and Courier
- 2009.03.11: The fine line on trade
- 2009.03.11: The essential recession conundrum
- 2009.03.11: Listen, Obama's no socialist
- 2009.03.11: The problem of the two tsars
- 2009.03.11: Symmetricizing for the long war at home
- 2009.03.11: The great march westward
- 2009.03.11: Exxon: where oil truly is peaking
- 2009.03.11: Upshot of encouraging domestic consumption in Asia? Asian companies look homeward
- 2009.03.10: Great Powers Reading Group Chapter 4
- 2009.03.10: Tom around the web
- 2009.03.10: A little perspective on China
- 2009.03.10: Gave up my Q
- 2009.03.10: We should work with India
- 2009.03.10: World recession and the Gap
- 2009.03.10: A much worse sense for Asia's economies going forward
- 2009.03.10: Islamic women will change Islam
- 2009.03.10: The end of EU's eastern expansion
- 2009.03.10: PNM as text
- 2009.03.10: Dubai and the rest of them are an example we should support in the Mideast
- 2009.03.09: The transcript of Tom's Politics & Prose speech
- 2009.03.08: Tom's on C-SPAN2 today
- 2009.03.08: Column 144
- 2009.03.08: Tom reviewed in the WaPo
- 2009.03.07: Tom's on C-SPAN tomorrow
- 2009.03.07: Tom on Hugh for GP chapter 6
- 2009.03.07: Good stuff at Galrahn's
- 2009.03.07: Recessions happen
- 2009.03.07: SysAdmin USCG spreading code
- 2009.03.07: More unilaterlism with Obama?
- 2009.03.06: Tom on Hugh tonight
- 2009.03.06: Iran is great theater
- 2009.03.06: The hits just keep comin'
- 2009.03.06: One-fifth of humanity changes slowly
- 2009.03.06: China as Gap source
- 2009.03.06: Kill Salafi jihadism in Central Asia
- 2009.03.06: Love seeing China and Russia in bed together
- 2009.03.05: Ex post facto: an inspiration recognized in Wooldridge
- 2009.03.05: Tom in U.S. News & World Report
- 2009.03.05: Tom on Little Rock public radio
- 2009.03.05: Economist's Adrian Wooldridge: "I really loved your book."
- 2009.03.05: Leviathan license
- 2009.03.05: Fidel's desperation
- 2009.03.05: Reengaging Russia is good
- 2009.03.05: The game-changer of the 21st century
- 2009.03.05: Operation immigration
- 2009.03.05: Leviathan as scenario, SysAdmin as outcome
- 2009.03.04: War, war everywhere! [with addition]
- 2009.03.04: Don't waste any crisis!
- 2009.03.04: Guess: Obama's managing our expectations on Iran
- 2009.03.04: Is Medvedev the good cop?
- 2009.03.04: With drawdown scheduled, no need for Iran to talk about Iraq with U.S.
- 2009.03.04: Dubai as boom-town transformed into ghost-town: how very Gold Rush
- 2009.03.03: Danger Room interviews Tom
- 2009.03.03: Tom's second time on Louie Free
- 2009.03.03: Tom's Politics & Prose appearance on Book TV (CSPAN2) this weekend
- 2009.03.03: Blueprint for Action now translated into Chinese and to be published inside PRC
- 2009.03.03: The real Middle Eastern conflict
- 2009.03.03: Zakaria on how to live with radical Islam
- 2009.03.03: The complete failure that is the drug war is recognized down south
- 2009.03.03: A counterintuitive headline that reminds us of Russia's past
- 2009.03.03: What is really going on in Latin America
- 2009.03.02: Don't forget...
- 2009.03.02: Tom on China-U.S. Friendship
- 2009.03.02: Talk to me
- 2009.03.02: Taking money off the table on a global scale
- 2009.03.02: Testing the theory of capitalism in China: does stability hold when jobs are lost?
- 2009.03.02: The Russians giveth, and the Russians taketh away
- 2009.03.02: Another air travel map
- 2009.03.01: Great Powers Reading Group Chapter 3
- 2009.03.01: Tom on Milt Rosenberg
- 2009.03.01: Tom at SWJ
- 2009.03.01: Tom around the web
- 2009.03.01: Column 143
- 2009.02.28: In our never-ending effort to root out Bushian rewrites of history
- 2009.02.28: China's view of Pakistan
- 2009.02.28: Pretty good Buchanan
- 2009.02.28: Maybe Russia's coming around
- 2009.02.28: Bolivia's latest resource curse
- 2009.02.28: Calling the Seven Samurai for a frontier village left to the tender mercies of the LRA
- 2009.02.27: Why the U.S. still leads the world
- 2009.02.27: Chas Freeman has been pre-approved to slant intelligence as head of the NIC by the WSJ
- 2009.02.27: Kim rolls out the latest missile: cue the salivating running dog of capitalism!
- 2009.02.27: What China's request means
- 2009.02.27: A Chinese vote for Obama
- 2009.02.27: Where the religious are
- 2009.02.27: Be realistic on Iraq and Afghanistan
- 2009.02.26: Coming media appearances
- 2009.02.26: Tom's last interview with Hugh is up
- 2009.02.26: How to handle Iran's weakness right now?
- 2009.02.26: The unprecedented buying opportunity? China sees it and seizes it.
- 2009.02.26: An easy point of cooperation with Iran
- 2009.02.26: The Taliban truce makes sense--only if the quid pro quo is giving up al Qaeda
- 2009.02.26: Still watching Spain on how it handles easy immigration
- 2009.02.26: Pakistan as threat
- 2009.02.26: Scary, globo-stop scenario
- 2009.02.25: Switzerland, that Gap island of banking, finally cracks!
- 2009.02.25: Have the struggles begun for a post-Kim DPRK?
- 2009.02.25: Hard times breed--as always--harsh attitudes towards immigrants
- 2009.02.25: It's not what Iran can live with in Iraq that matters, but what Saudi Arabia can live with
- 2009.02.25: The cost of global transportation set to drop further
- 2009.02.25: The Facebook Party in Egypt
- 2009.02.25: When Wal-Mart does anything, it's big
- 2009.02.24: The usual mix
- 2009.02.24: Tom's on Hugh tonight
- 2009.02.24: Being real on China
- 2009.02.24: Latest interview with Tom
- 2009.02.24: A good call by Obama on foreign aid
- 2009.02.24: Just how bad it's getting in Zimbabwe
- 2009.02.24: The best critique I've seen on "Outliers"
- 2009.02.23: Why talk radio works where the MSM does not
- 2009.02.23: Don't forget to check out the latest reading group post
- 2009.02.23: Tom's Oscar Twitter stream
- 2009.02.23: Taped and taping Hewitt
- 2009.02.23: Pre-Asian Union
- 2009.02.23: No complaints with HRC so far
- 2009.02.23: Disaffected youth of the world, rap your fears away
- 2009.02.23: The Arab development agenda that is inevitably hijacked by violence
- 2009.02.23: A new form of splittism
- 2009.02.23: Tom in the Egyptian media
- 2009.02.22: Taped ABC Radio Network "John Batchelor Show"
- 2009.02.22: My Oscar picks
- 2009.02.22: Great Powers Reading Group: Chapter 2
- 2009.02.22: 2 recent interviews
- 2009.02.22: Column 142
- 2009.02.21: Tom in VOA
- 2009.02.21: The second book nit, found by Mike Nelson
- 2009.02.21: Great Powers in the news
- 2009.02.21: You-know-who yanked their chain
- 2009.02.21: Cheap houses, happy immigrants
- 2009.02.21: The steady drop in popularity for Bush
- 2009.02.20: 3rd week with Tom and Hugh
- 2009.02.20: Deleted original Chapter Two
- 2009.02.20: The worst president ever
- 2009.02.20: Listen to Tom's third hour with Hugh Hewitt
- 2009.02.20: Tibetan Buddhism in China
- 2009.02.20: A slower global economy means less people flow
- 2009.02.20: Mattis: pedal to the metal
- 2009.02.19: A conversation with Lizz
- 2009.02.19: Open-to-the-public brief at Clinton School in Little Rock
- 2009.02.19: Finished Batman lego cave w Jer
- 2009.02.19: Hewitt third hour will be on tonight
- 2009.02.19: Deleted original Chapter One
- 2009.02.19: Resumed talks are good
- 2009.02.19: Israel's leaked, not-so-covert war on Iran
- 2009.02.19: The Core and Gap ranked by economic freedom
- 2009.02.19: The great globalization build-out proceeds in China
- 2009.02.18: Good sales
- 2009.02.18: Not sure when Hewitt hour went/goes on tonight
- 2009.02.18: Great Powers Preface: The Shape of Things to Come
- 2009.02.18: Stop being so paranoid
- 2009.02.18: Hard days for democracy
- 2009.02.18: The country in south Asia that we should be making happy
- 2009.02.18: As goes China, so goes Asia
- 2009.02.17: Hugh, Bohannon
- 2009.02.17: Great Powers Reading Group index
- 2009.02.17: Latest Great Powers news
- 2009.02.17: Q&A with Tom upon release of Great Powers
- 2009.02.17: Fake states in the Stans
- 2009.02.17: Chavez and Putin dim with oil's drop
- 2009.02.17: Still racing to the middle
- 2009.02.17: Scale matters
- 2009.02.16: Tomorrow . . .
- 2009.02.16: Milt Rosenberg was fun
- 2009.02.16: Other window: Chicago Trib building
- 2009.02.16: View from my window, downtown Chicago
- 2009.02.16: Tom on the radio today
- 2009.02.16: Godspeed, soldiers
- 2009.02.16: Index to Great Powers
- 2009.02.16: Who leads the recovery? America or the BRICs?
- 2009.02.16: State bankruptcy: Is it inevitably the next phase of the crisis?
- 2009.02.16: The Noble Corps
- 2009.02.16: Blackwater's name, focus change
- 2009.02.15: Great Powers Reading Group: Chapter 1
- 2009.02.15: Tom in Defense News
- 2009.02.15: Great Powers makes WaPo bestseller list!
- 2009.02.15: Endnotes for Great Powers, Coda
- 2009.02.15: Column 141
- 2009.02.14: SF Chronicle interview
- 2009.02.14: The last day to push!
- 2009.02.14: I gotta admit, seeing the NYT review in print is really different
- 2009.02.14: Director's Commentary On the Coda, Acknowledgments, Glossary, Notes and Index
- 2009.02.14: Let's cut the boondoggle costs!
- 2009.02.14: Glad Larry is on the job
- 2009.02.14: Fuel sanity
- 2009.02.14: Great minds think alike
- 2009.02.13: Twittering the book tour: Day 10
- 2009.02.13: Twittering the book tour: Day 9
- 2009.02.13: Only 1 more day to push GP
- 2009.02.13: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Eight
- 2009.02.13: Deleted scene: Chapter Eight
- 2009.02.13: Tom's latest Kurdistani interview
- 2009.02.13: Zakaria on Ahmadinejad
- 2009.02.13: Lockheed leads, and is led by . . .
- 2009.02.13: Clean, semi-ambitious option B
- 2009.02.13: Hoagland on the UAE nuke deal
- 2009.02.12: Tom in the CSM
- 2009.02.12: More on Amazon rank
- 2009.02.12: 2 more days to push GP
- 2009.02.12: Tom and Hugh discuss Great Powers
- 2009.02.12: View out my window
- 2009.02.12: Tom's 2nd week on Hugh's show
- 2009.02.12: Director's Commentary On Chapter Eight: The Strategic Realignment: Resurrecting the Progressive Agenda
- 2009.02.12: Go easy on the Wall Street whiz kids
- 2009.02.12: When Hillary goes to China
- 2009.02.12: Called the headline
- 2009.02.12: Chavez wises up some
- 2009.02.11: Twittering the book tour: Day 8
- 2009.02.11: Tom on Hugh tonight
- 2009.02.11: 3 more days to push GP
- 2009.02.11: We made the NYT! [bumped]
- 2009.02.11: Tom in the Globe
- 2009.02.11: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Seven
- 2009.02.11: The DoEE is coming
- 2009.02.11: Fight protectionism!
- 2009.02.11: Another reason to be nervous
- 2009.02.11: The danger of our time
- 2009.02.10: Tom on Gil Gross
- 2009.02.10: "The Reader"
- 2009.02.10: CSPAN did tape Politics & Prose
- 2009.02.10: My dad was there tonight at Politics & Prose
- 2009.02.10: Twittering the book tour: Day 7
- 2009.02.10: Smithsonian portrait pix
- 2009.02.10: 4 more days to push GP
- 2009.02.10: Twittering the book tour: Day 6
- 2009.02.10: Deleted scenes: Chapter Seven
- 2009.02.10: Give Iran a little time...
- 2009.02.10: All roads to Afghanistan...
- 2009.02.10: Sino-African trajectory
- 2009.02.10: Strange vessel
- 2009.02.09: Listen to Tom on Diane Rehm
- 2009.02.09: Great Powers on sale +4
- 2009.02.09: Diane Rehm Show
- 2009.02.09: Tom's on The Diane Rehm Show in 10 minutes
- 2009.02.09: Acknowledgments for Great Powers
- 2009.02.09: The changing US-Asia relationship
- 2009.02.09: Grading the Surge
- 2009.02.09: The resemblance between Saddam and Mailiki
- 2009.02.09: Core-Core flow of seeds
- 2009.02.08: Feeling cranked, not cranky
- 2009.02.08: Great Powers reading group
- 2009.02.08: Twittering the book tour: Day 5
- 2009.02.08: Today begins Great Powers' first full week of sales
- 2009.02.08: Inside men
- 2009.02.08: Director's Commentary On Chapter Seven: The Network Realignment: The Rise of the SysAdmin-Industrial Complex
- 2009.02.08: Column 140
- 2009.02.08: Interview with Tom for Kurdistani press
- 2009.02.07: Twittering the book tour: Day 4
- 2009.02.07: Great Powers on sale +2
- 2009.02.07: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Six
- 2009.02.07: No deleted scenes for Chapter Six
- 2009.02.07: Geithner's big mouth on China: for real or rhetoric?
- 2009.02.07: Rising power, still led by idiots
- 2009.02.07: The Chinese aren't stupid
- 2009.02.06: Use the Force, Tom
- 2009.02.06: Twittering the book tour: day 3
- 2009.02.06: This was the radio satellite tour
- 2009.02.06: US Chamber of Commerce event cancelled on Monday
- 2009.02.06: Great Powers on sale +1
- 2009.02.06: Tom in The Ethical Standard
- 2009.02.06: Director's Commentary On Chapter Six: The Security Realignment: Rediscovering Diplomacy, Defense, And Development
- 2009.02.06: What a pullout looks like in Somalia
- 2009.02.06: Civilians need training, too
- 2009.02.06: We protect our farm land, too
- 2009.02.06: AFRICOM contributes with UN, AU in Darfur
- 2009.02.05: Twittering the book tour: day 2
- 2009.02.05: Staying positive
- 2009.02.05: Great Powers is out!
- 2009.02.05: My no TV tour
- 2009.02.05: SWJ Q&A with Tom
- 2009.02.05: Tom's latest piece for Esquire
- 2009.02.05: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Five
- 2009.02.05: Deleted scene: Chapter 5
- 2009.02.05: Shoe protests
- 2009.02.05: Barnett map
- 2009.02.05: Sweatshops are relative
- 2009.02.05: CJTF-HOA joins AFRICOM
- 2009.02.04: Listen to the first hour of the Great Powers discussion with Hewitt
- 2009.02.04: The book tour on Twitter so far
- 2009.02.04: Don't forget to listen to Hewitt's show tonight
- 2009.02.04: Today's efforts
- 2009.02.04: Crazy buzz, but there you have it
- 2009.02.04: Great Powers comes out tomorrow!
- 2009.02.04: Director's Commentary On Chapter Five: The Diplomatic Realignment: Rebranding the Team of Rivals
- 2009.02.04: Cherry-picking is smart
- 2009.02.04: The strongman as escape hatch?
- 2009.02.04: HRC on AFRICOM
- 2009.02.04: The utility of leaks
- 2009.02.03: Tom's begun tweeting the book tour
- 2009.02.03: Book tour info
- 2009.02.03: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Four
- 2009.02.03: Obama will keep baby, throw out bathwater
- 2009.02.03: Jobs in the global economy: get 'em while you're hot
- 2009.02.03: We need a better definition of 'win'
- 2009.02.03: How do you say 'kaput' in Chinese?
- 2009.02.02: The Hewitt taping went very well
- 2009.02.02: NDU says no media for the 11th
- 2009.02.02: 2 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.02.02: Another series of hour-long interviews with Hugh Hewitt
- 2009.02.02: Deleted scenes: Chapter Four
- 2009.02.02: Good sign from Biden on China
- 2009.02.02: Don't freak out yet
- 2009.02.02: The writ of the rest
- 2009.02.02: Core: got nukes, Gap: wants them
- 2009.02.01: Shame on you, Dan Patrick, for not knowing NFL history
- 2009.02.01: 3 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.02.01: God was telling me it was time to change my wardrobe
- 2009.02.01: Deleted scenes: Chapter Three
- 2009.02.01: Column 139
- 2009.02.01: Tom back at the Clinton Center/School
- 2009.01.31: 4 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.31: How to access the Carnegie Council event in NYC on 4 Feb
- 2009.01.31: Director's Commentary On Chapter Four: The Economic Realignment: Racing To The Bottom Of The Pyramid
- 2009.01.31: Iraq and Blackwater: moving on
- 2009.01.31: What's your position on bad things?
- 2009.01.31: The big "if" on the U.S. stimulus package
- 2009.01.31: Admit it, the Euro works great
- 2009.01.30: 5 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.30: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Three
- 2009.01.30: The importance of cities in our economy
- 2009.01.30: When smart results in dangerous and stupid
- 2009.01.30: The G-20-for-real: inevitably in the works
- 2009.01.30: Two steps forward, one step back for Hispanic housing in America
- 2009.01.29: I am now officially, deeply confused about the book's release date
- 2009.01.29: 6 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.29: Deleted scenes: Chapter Three
- 2009.01.29: Bush fed anti-government sentiment alright
- 2009.01.29: The new rules that inevitably flow after a crash
- 2009.01.29: Chinese net justice
- 2009.01.29: Off to fight the pirates
- 2009.01.28: 7 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.28: Director's Commentary On Chapter Three
- 2009.01.28: Latest from Nimble
- 2009.01.28: When generals trump diplomats
- 2009.01.28: The international citizen is being educated--today
- 2009.01.28: You kill the womb, you kill life
- 2009.01.27: 8 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.27: Director's commentary on the cover
- 2009.01.27: Great Powers shipped by Amazon, arriving to some already
- 2009.01.27: Russia prObama
- 2009.01.27: China's good move
- 2009.01.27: Now the bill comes due for Putin
- 2009.01.27: Now the bill comes due for Chavez
- 2009.01.26: 9 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.26: Great Powers product description
- 2009.01.26: 'A' stands for Apply what we learned
- 2009.01.26: You want to know how stupid and clueless al Qaeda is?
- 2009.01.26: The best damn editorial department in news
- 2009.01.26: You take what you can get
- 2009.01.25: 10 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.25: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter Two
- 2009.01.25: Column 138
- 2009.01.24: The long and winding road
- 2009.01.24: 11 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.24: Great Powers deleted scenes: Chapter 2
- 2009.01.24: What if we have to intervene next door?
- 2009.01.24: Pretty global accessibility map
- 2009.01.24: Someone's got some 'splainin to do
- 2009.01.23: Tom on Wall Street
- 2009.01.23: Joyner wraps up his Great Powers series
- 2009.01.23: 12 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.23: Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter One
- 2009.01.23: Got job training America?
- 2009.01.23: HAK on Sino-American strategy
- 2009.01.23: China's class-actions
- 2009.01.23: Central Asia: energy, militaries and human rights
- 2009.01.22: Latest pix
- 2009.01.22: 13 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.22: Director's Commentary On Chapter Two: A Twelve-Step Recovery Program For American Grand Strategy
- 2009.01.22: New Atlanticist Great Powers review series
- 2009.01.22: Hardliners in Iran looking to steer the prez election
- 2009.01.22: True Wild West stuff
- 2009.01.22: A sign of Russia's woes
- 2009.01.21: Twittering the ball
- 2009.01.21: 14 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.21: Deleted scenes: Chapter 1
- 2009.01.21: George Clinton and goodnight
- 2009.01.21: We need to show Mid-east can have nuclear without nukes
- 2009.01.21: Gently brays the donkey
- 2009.01.21: No one can replace US demand (yet)
- 2009.01.21: The Leviathan, seriously
- 2009.01.20: Gala pix
- 2009.01.20: Strategic stars align
- 2009.01.20: 15 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.20: Tom's celeb spotting on Twitter
- 2009.01.20: Director's Commentary On Chapter One: The Seven-Deadly Sins Of Bush-Cheney
- 2009.01.20: The most worrisome global economic trend
- 2009.01.20: Israel wants it bad in Gaza, will likely get it bad in Iran
- 2009.01.20: Some common sense on the seeming triumph of authoritarian capitalism
- 2009.01.20: We've got the beat
- 2009.01.20: Another reason why we need the DoEE
- 2009.01.19: Yesterday's Twitter-stream
- 2009.01.19: 16 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.19: Bio from Great Powers
- 2009.01.19: I love the re-creation of Lincoln's train ride
- 2009.01.19: Another review of Tom in Mankato
- 2009.01.19: Expanding the Afghan effort in the right way
- 2009.01.19: A brilliant Brooks bit on Hamas/Iran
- 2009.01.19: Mankato Brief in the news
- 2009.01.19: Tom in the SF Chronicle
- 2009.01.18: George from a distance, on a not very cold night
- 2009.01.18: 17 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.18: Tom's inauguration Twitter stream
- 2009.01.18: Glossary from Great Powers
- 2009.01.18: Column 137
- 2009.01.17: 18 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.17: Excerpts from Great Powers, part 2
- 2009.01.17: The China price gets steeper
- 2009.01.17: Yo-yoing oil prices
- 2009.01.17: Carving up Africa the right way
- 2009.01.16: Mankato: I came, I saw, I got through the mega brief
- 2009.01.16: 19 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.16: Excerpts from Great Powers, part 1
- 2009.01.16: The PR campaign on the COIN effort in Afghanistan
- 2009.01.16: #6 is gone
- 2009.01.16: Brooks on Gladwell's message
- 2009.01.16: The "dream team" on genocide? Dream on.
- 2009.01.16: Mullen-Obama will be good fit
- 2009.01.15: 20 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.15: Director's Commentary on the Preface of Great Powers
- 2009.01.15: GP: the lost chapters
- 2009.01.15: Iran is a great power
- 2009.01.15: You really want a world without nukes?
- 2009.01.15: Lula leads
- 2009.01.15: Again on the Official History
- 2009.01.15: Those 500-plus independent nations inside these United States
- 2009.01.14: Hmm, I'm going to plead like that more often
- 2009.01.14: 21 days until Great Powers comes out
- 2009.01.14: Simple McMaster misquote of me--at least--and inaccurate portrayal of Art Cebrowski's thinking as it evolved
- 2009.01.14: Director's Commentary on the Book Proposal of Great Powers
- 2009.01.14: We need to worry about China (but not their military)
- 2009.01.14: Kerry's new role
- 2009.01.14: AFRICOM's true purpose
- 2009.01.14: A wee bit of history in Core integration
- 2009.01.14: It's not proliferation when it's among friends
- 2009.01.13: Galrahn: the Great Powers series
- 2009.01.13: Director's Commentary on the Dedication of Great Powers
- 2009.01.13: The EU getting smarter on Russia's energy supply
- 2009.01.13: Look who's #2 on global stimulus package
- 2009.01.13: All bad things must come to an end
- 2009.01.13: Leviathan in the docket
- 2009.01.13: How rare this global contraction is, and yet, still how painful
- 2009.01.12: Confessing my sins
- 2009.01.12: Gave away my first book copy
- 2009.01.12: GP Director's Commentary on the Table of Contents
- 2009.01.12: Two views of 'revelation'
- 2009.01.12: We can't let Iran get the bomb! (but...)
- 2009.01.12: Damn! Another "resource war" averted!
- 2009.01.12: Keep it coming, baby!
- 2009.01.11: My mistake on Mankato
- 2009.01.11: Tom's Grand Strategy beliefs from GP
- 2009.01.11: Column 136
- 2009.01.10: Getting lotsa good feedback emails on Thurs talk in DC
- 2009.01.10: Next Friday in Mankato MN & Feb 16 in Chicago on WGN; LOOKING FOR RADIO SPOTS!
- 2009.01.10: 12-step recovery program for America from Great Powers
- 2009.01.10: The book first mistake found--by me.
- 2009.01.10: Live by the SWORD
- 2009.01.09: A summary of required compromises detailed in Great Powers
- 2009.01.09: The debut of the new brief
- 2009.01.09: The zen reason of Panetta
- 2009.01.09: Grand Strategist U
- 2009.01.09: Good history, but still different
- 2009.01.08: Precedent Obama!
- 2009.01.08: New brief debuted
- 2009.01.08: Great Powers press release
- 2009.01.08: Really, we're going to win this
- 2009.01.08: We have more in common with Iran than Russia
- 2009.01.08: You're in the Core when...
- 2009.01.08: More useful evolution on the part of the Army toward its expanding SysAdmin portfolio
- 2009.01.07: The GP promotional blitz begins
- 2009.01.07: Preferring Gaza to air strikes
- 2009.01.07: When cold warriors attack
- 2009.01.07: Immigration illustrated
- 2009.01.07: SysAdmin from Indiana to Afghanistan
- 2009.01.06: Rest of images assembled, first 25 slides animated
- 2009.01.06: Book in my hands!
- 2009.01.06: Sullivan on Panetta
- 2009.01.06: Gates' steady hand
- 2009.01.06: One scare-the-hell-out-of-the-America-public department was enough
- 2009.01.06: This is how we do it
- 2009.01.06: Save the economy
- 2009.01.05: Another one bites the dust
- 2009.01.05: Down to 122 slides
- 2009.01.05: What rockets wrought
- 2009.01.05: China and US from Japan
- 2009.01.05: The blistering, 61-year-race that was nuclear proliferation
- 2009.01.05: A big man who would have made Commerce a big job
- 2009.01.05: As cities are labs for global warming, they also presage a post-Caucasian America
- 2009.01.04: Down to 235
- 2009.01.04: The great slim down
- 2009.01.04: Column 135
- 2009.01.03: The draw of free land
- 2009.01.03: Gangs rule over the most crime-free America in decades
- 2009.01.03: China is simply not yet a credible demand center
- 2009.01.02: Struggling, but brief coming together
- 2009.01.02: The religious flow now: from Gap to Old Core
- 2009.01.02: Pay attention Putin, your middle class is talking
- 2009.01.02: Like I remember the early 1980s recession
- 2009.01.02: The drone wars reach our border with Canada
- 2009.01.02: The effects of our drug war in Mexico
- 2009.01.02: Twitter feed from SF
- 2009.01.01: China v. pirates
- 2009.01.01: Only measure that matters
- 2009.01.01: Upside view on South Africa
- 2009.01.01: Putin's punishment was pre-determined by Russia's connectivity
- 2009.01.01: The high-trust-v-low-trust environment problem--in spades
- 2008.12.31: 'War' between Israel and Hamas
- 2008.12.31: The people flow creates the sustaining money flow during hard times
- 2008.12.31: China growing up fast on the financial front--at least in mindset
- 2008.12.31: Rwanda--messing around again
- 2008.12.31: Israel's pre-emptive strikes on Gaza
- 2008.12.30: William Wyler's masterpiece
- 2008.12.30: Tweeter dumb, tweeter dee
- 2008.12.30: No easy Indian response to Pakistan's troop shift
- 2008.12.30: Greatest American political scientist of 20th century
- 2008.12.30: The recession reaches India
- 2008.12.30: Know your supply chain--real-world example of effort
- 2008.12.30: As predicted, it's not one-laptop-per-child that triggers the online growth
- 2008.12.29: When you've made hay on high oil...
- 2008.12.29: Arabs today, Americans...
- 2008.12.29: Why does America think prohibition works with drugs when it never did with alcohol
- 2008.12.29: No slump in Chinese advertising
- 2008.12.29: The growing medical trade attracts a serious New Core economy
- 2008.12.28: The Rock, Tower and Woods
- 2008.12.28: Saturday in SF
- 2008.12.28: Column 134
- 2008.12.27: The city by the bay
- 2008.12.27: Listen all y'all it's a sabotage
- 2008.12.27: And I don't mean Bachelor of Science
- 2008.12.27: Voting with their year-abroad, students pick China
- 2008.12.27: Bosnia: still not done breaking up?
- 2008.12.27: America's soft media power unabated
- 2008.12.26: I left my heart...
- 2008.12.26: From: Army To: Obama
- 2008.12.26: Predictable and good: Brazil the extra-regional military power
- 2008.12.26: The Economist on Russia/Putin
- 2008.12.26: Our endgame in Iraq is the start of the real game
- 2008.12.26: The Chinese: they're everywhere, they're everywhere!
- 2008.12.26: Tom's trying Twitter
- 2008.12.25: The rat bastard has to die someday
- 2008.12.25: Pirates: it's asymmetrical until you decide otherwise
- 2008.12.25: KKR looking to buy the cow and sell the milk in China
- 2008.12.25: The underlying, quite Marxian fear in Beijing with the financial crisis
- 2008.12.25: "Germany aims to protect its [economic] interests"! The deuce you say!
- 2008.12.25: Merry Christmas!
- 2008.12.25: Wicked cool present from reader
- 2008.12.24: How can we get you back?
- 2008.12.24: Trade barriers toughen - for now
- 2008.12.24: The decline of the fisheries--much more immediate than global warming
- 2008.12.24: SNAFU in Somalia
- 2008.12.24: Life after the boom
- 2008.12.23: Re: Tim Roemer
- 2008.12.23: A sad, sick show in Chi-town [with addendum]
- 2008.12.23: More realistic on China's model
- 2008.12.23: It's who you know
- 2008.12.23: The bottom-up strategic review/revolt that was
- 2008.12.23: Chavez: asking for a real intervention
- 2008.12.23: Tom Friedman's nightmare scenario
- 2008.12.23: Newspapers booming at the bottom
- 2008.12.23: The nationalists love to rewrite history, and there's so much to rewrite in Russia
- 2008.12.23: Taiwan invades the Mainland yet again: Calling all doctors!
- 2008.12.23: The tighter speaking market
- 2008.12.23: AQ needs to pick the biggest fight possible
- 2008.12.22: Almost too luxurious
- 2008.12.22: Don't panic
- 2008.12.22: Tough love for the Pentagon
- 2008.12.22: The competitive landscape inside the States: How dire the picture?
- 2008.12.22: The glass-half-full on Sudan . . . drink up!
- 2008.12.22: A Turk is a Turk is a Turk is the leader of Germany's Green Party
- 2008.12.21: Short end of stick
- 2008.12.21: Column 133
- 2008.12.20: The Great Game around Afghanistan
- 2008.12.20: Grrrl power in the House!
- 2008.12.20: Correcting information ops
- 2008.12.19: The line between terrorism and globalization
- 2008.12.19: Smart woman with smart advice
- 2008.12.19: Sarkozy-the-slimy when it comes to ag subsidies
- 2008.12.19: The unwanted gift of missile defense in Europe
- 2008.12.19: Latest from Putnam on GP
- 2008.12.18: Why Abu Ghraib and Gitmo matter
- 2008.12.18: New POTUS is inevitable POTY
- 2008.12.18: China fighting pirates right on cue
- 2008.12.18: ... But don't go light on the stimulus package?
- 2008.12.18: Go easy on those first 100 days?
- 2008.12.18: The "how bad?" question
- 2008.12.17: Ah, the balance
- 2008.12.17: Tech question
- 2008.12.17: Wrote it many times, now confirmed by research
- 2008.12.17: Mixed unions in India--as in, mixing caste
- 2008.12.17: Whither Africa?
- 2008.12.17: Half surge = stability without recovery
- 2008.12.17: Asian triangle overview
- 2008.12.16: Tentative deal for Turkish edition of Great Powers
- 2008.12.16: The SysAdmin grows
- 2008.12.16: Another China-Taiwan connection
- 2008.12.16: Zakaria on Grand Strategy
- 2008.12.16: East and West, intertwined and imperative
- 2008.12.16: Ford in Brazil
- 2008.12.15: A *starred* review from Kirkus on Great Powers
- 2008.12.15: India as the globalization microcosm
- 2008.12.15: Why the SysAdmin struggle matters
- 2008.12.15: Co-opt Chinese anti-piracy
- 2008.12.15: China's importation of new rules through globalization continues apace
- 2008.12.15: The shifting global car industry
- 2008.12.15: Tom on Facebook
- 2008.12.14: Column 132
- 2008.12.13: The nation within the state flexes its muscle
- 2008.12.13: Another warning of short-term decline of U.S. ag thanks to global recession
- 2008.12.13: Scanning what's for dinner
- 2008.12.13: Connecting Mumbai to globalization--as it should be
- 2008.12.13: The road from oligarchic to state-directed ramped up in Russia
- 2008.12.12: Making it into the Obama book club
- 2008.12.12: Interview with Tom in Defense News
- 2008.12.12: Ain't no rise without us
- 2008.12.12: Obama's promise to Israel
- 2008.12.12: The counter-intuitive on North Korea's latest bluster
- 2008.12.12: And you thought high oil was bad...
- 2008.12.12: Reminder: Iraq's a fake state
- 2008.12.12: Gentile doubts SysAdmin
- 2008.12.12: Mashup: Florida and the Map
- 2008.12.11: Steve in Iraq Oil Report
- 2008.12.11: Are you a big mouth?
- 2008.12.11: Avast ye pirates, Prince Erik has cast his gaze your way!
- 2008.12.11: Obama better be his own lead on China
- 2008.12.11: Nice Economist report on cars in emerging markets
- 2008.12.11: Big step for India: policing its own radicals
- 2008.12.10: Last week's column gets me some emails from scientists ...
- 2008.12.10: "Slumdog Millionaire" the best film I've seen this year so far
- 2008.12.10: After the long winter, signs that maybe the Big Bang gets us what we need in the end
- 2008.12.10: China considers being a big boy on its economy
- 2008.12.10: Some perspective on India's alleged 9/11
- 2008.12.10: De facto Core pillars begin stepping up
- 2008.12.10: Tapscott on the Net Generation
- 2008.12.10: Big Pharma will stay rich, but only by selling heavily to the bottom-of-the-pyramid
- 2008.12.10: Great Powers in Library Journal
- 2008.12.10: Hint of SysAdmin?
- 2008.12.09: The final check on Great Powers
- 2008.12.09: The "command economy" can't actually command consumer spending
- 2008.12.09: More common sense from Bush on Russia
- 2008.12.09: Tougher times as greener times?
- 2008.12.09: Great Powers Table of Contents
- 2008.12.09: South Africa turning a blind eye
- 2008.12.09: Kazakhstan is selling location, location, location--in addition to oil & gas
- 2008.12.09: Another nice piece on Islamic finance as the new kosher--hell, the new gold!
- 2008.12.09: PLA in Afghanistan would be great
- 2008.12.08: Publisher's Weekly: first review out for Great Powers
- 2008.12.08: America and the ICC
- 2008.12.08: Yet another important brick in the SysAdmin wall
- 2008.12.08: Naval gazing
- 2008.12.08: Core crisis upside
- 2008.12.08: New financial kosher
- 2008.12.07: Column 131
- 2008.12.06: Daddy duty
- 2008.12.06: Kick-ass on so many levels: Shinseki as Sec Vets Affairs
- 2008.12.06: Hard to improve on Gates
- 2008.12.06: A glimpse of bad things to come in the FATA
- 2008.12.06: We need to modernize our nukes
- 2008.12.05: Tom in the Economist
- 2008.12.05: Sure sign of a system perturbed
- 2008.12.05: Compromised general?
- 2008.12.05: Entice the Chinese to fight pirates
- 2008.12.05: Yes, we pass a rule for everything we do in the Long War
- 2008.12.05: D.R. Congo--take II
- 2008.12.05: Germany is the new France
- 2008.12.05: 'Iraq and Beyond' requests your comments
- 2008.12.04: CNN on post-Great Depression recessions suffered by US
- 2008.12.04: No rest for the weary, no relief for the hungry
- 2008.12.04: Lawyers: First outsourced, now imported by the body
- 2008.12.04: What the world needs now is trade--lots more trade
- 2008.12.04: The East-East gets big-big
- 2008.12.04: Another glorious example of stupidity in our drug war
- 2008.12.04: Climate change in the news
- 2008.12.04: A new take on the coastal megacities
- 2008.12.03: The latest on Tom's gig in Mankato
- 2008.12.03: UAW prez today on CNN
- 2008.12.03: Don't hate Mumbai because it's beautiful
- 2008.12.03: Does the Iraq timetable start the clock on Afghanistan?
- 2008.12.03: Japan is changing, bit by bit
- 2008.12.03: The Hong Kong-after-next
- 2008.12.03: Bill Emmott slumming in the Post, talking about a not-so-post-American world
- 2008.12.03: Oh, how far the mighty ANC have fallen!
- 2008.12.03: AMEMB to PRC: the crucial diplomatic link
- 2008.12.03: Brooks starting to get it
- 2008.12.02: I like Richardson at Commerce
- 2008.12.02: Defense News interview
- 2008.12.02: Obama on India
- 2008.12.02: Screw pink; green is the color of gay liberation
- 2008.12.02: Somalia--same as it ever was
- 2008.12.02: Recession touches China
- 2008.12.01: The official tour dates to date
- 2008.12.01: This attack will work against them
- 2008.12.01: Tom in NYC for Great Powers
- 2008.12.01: Yes, there is a school for complete assholes!
- 2008.12.01: MS tries to cut out the Gap's BS on IP theft
- 2008.12.01: The financial storm washes up in the PG
- 2008.11.30: Pakistan will have to move fast
- 2008.11.30: Movies update
- 2008.11.30: Thomas P.M. Barnett, philosopher
- 2008.11.30: Column 130
- 2008.11.29: Looks like Gates is staying
- 2008.11.29: Bankers, you have nothing to gain but your chains!
- 2008.11.29: African free trade: About time!
- 2008.11.28: This really is my best book
- 2008.11.28: On the motives in Mumbai
- 2008.11.28: News flash: Obama's cabinet not arch-liberal
- 2008.11.28: Revealing charts on losses in the financial crisis
- 2008.11.27: Scary business in Mumbai
- 2008.11.26: Book finally, finally, finally done
- 2008.11.26: The crisis arrives in the East and is acknowledged more publicly
- 2008.11.26: Kristof not drinking the Kool-Aid on Misha the Aggrieved
- 2008.11.26: The New Core creates the new energy rules?
- 2008.11.26: The over-under on the Green Revolution
- 2008.11.26: Those idiot kids will be the death of us!
- 2008.11.25: No love in Philly
- 2008.11.25: The new look review on Afghanistan, corresponding to Iraq's new look review on America
- 2008.11.25: The best Phase IV competition out there; Who's sizing your SysAdmin force?
- 2008.11.25: Does the House of Saud finally stand up as a grown-up?
- 2008.11.25: We're number one--with a bullet!
- 2008.11.25: More than three nations in Iraq?
- 2008.11.24: My wife would thank this man
- 2008.11.24: A relief to have learned something
- 2008.11.24: Japan sees an opening in the financial crisis
- 2008.11.24: The second law of petro politics: disregard Friedman's "first law" outside of bubbles
- 2008.11.24: The 19-year-old female just off the farm--driver of industrialization everywhere
- 2008.11.23: Rebuilding code
- 2008.11.23: Article to go with today's column
- 2008.11.23: And we're back
- 2008.11.22: Siterep
- 2008.11.22: Column 129
- 2008.11.22: Disappointing NIC report
- 2008.11.22: Nice piece of analysis from Heritage
- 2008.11.22: Iraq victory approximation
- 2008.11.21: For now, Obama's picks strike me as encouraging
- 2008.11.21: The expected penalty on the milk scandal
- 2008.11.21: FDR to Obama: don’t go light on the stimulus
- 2008.11.21: Welch advises Obama on picking people
- 2008.11.21: "Flight 93" versus "United 93"
- 2008.11.21: A nice primer on cloud computing and its relationship to SOA
- 2008.11.21: In God—and America—we trust
- 2008.11.21: Growing network connectivity—literally!—in Africa
- 2008.11.21: China pulls the trigger on rural land reform
- 2008.11.20: How much can China step up in this global financial crisis?
- 2008.11.20: More upside on the crash: falling commodity prices temper inflation
- 2008.11.20: That excellent Friedman column on Detroit
- 2008.11.20: China steps up, India gets scared
- 2008.11.20: Just a reminder: we’re #1 on competitiveness
- 2008.11.20: Hard times breed more comprehensive trade deals
- 2008.11.20: 'Expeditionary banking' and DIB
- 2008.11.20: G-20 emergence
- 2008.11.19: Why video loses out to the game
- 2008.11.19: The funniest Colbert line of late re: Obama vetting proces
- 2008.11.19: The perfect front page for this day and age
- 2008.11.19: The long war’s shift into Africa—on schedule
- 2008.11.19: 3 generals survive 800lb Bomb in MRAP with EFP protection
- 2008.11.19: Looking for another upside target with the financial crisis
- 2008.11.19: More dust-settled perspective on Russia-v-Georgia
- 2008.11.19: Another upside for Russia with global warming: maritime connectivity
- 2008.11.19: Brazil muscles in on American beef? Not so fast!
- 2008.11.18: Lenin is officially spinning in his sarcophagus
- 2008.11.18: Paul Light’s excellent suggestion on fast-track reorganization authority
- 2008.11.18: World Bank on the financial crisis
- 2008.11.18: The over-under on Africa in the financial crisis
- 2008.11.18: Lockheed's Net Rises as Sales Fall
- 2008.11.18: Signal received, Azerbaijan thinks ahead
- 2008.11.18: While the oligarchs gently weep
- 2008.11.18: Golden age over already for U.S. ag?
- 2008.11.18: Mexico wising up on oil-sector FDI
- 2008.11.17: Little offered by, but then again, little expected from global summit
- 2008.11.17: Good news for the Dems; bad news for America
- 2008.11.17: Technologizing ahead on global warming
- 2008.11.17: The OSCE's human rights effort --> USSR fall --> Sakharov Prize --> China targeted
- 2008.11.17: The U.S. cavalry stuck defending a fort in the middle of nowhere—cue music (please!)
- 2008.11.17: French mediation
- 2008.11.17: The New Core wants to move up from the G-20 kiddie table
- 2008.11.17: Jones for State?
- 2008.11.17: Give us Gates for 20 more months
- 2008.11.16: I can't believe I gave my tix away!
- 2008.11.16: Column 128
- 2008.11.15: Three good flicks worth seeing
- 2008.11.15: Nice textbook on terrorism
- 2008.11.15: Watch the swears!
- 2008.11.15: A sensible bit from Haass on the financial crisis
- 2008.11.15: Why bailout Detroit?
- 2008.11.14: On Hillary, I was hoping ...
- 2008.11.14: Time to change tactics
- 2008.11.14: We need a modern Russian military
- 2008.11.14: The IMF gains an identity from financial crisis
- 2008.11.14: Non-chimera Chimerica
- 2008.11.14: Iran wants to come in from the cold
- 2008.11.13: Want to see Tom in Minnesota?
- 2008.11.13: Let the revisionist histories on the Iraq War begin!
- 2008.11.13: Rebuffed by China, Pakistan May Seek Aid From I.M.F.
- 2008.11.13: I told you we should have locked in China
- 2008.11.13: The big-war scenario is dead
- 2008.11.13: The persistence of need (for humanitarian intervention)
- 2008.11.12: That ship has sailed ...
- 2008.11.12: Ha! I regained my balance!
- 2008.11.12: The penultimate brief
- 2008.11.12: I said read it!
- 2008.11.12: Iran is more than oil
- 2008.11.12: Regionalizing Afghanistan
- 2008.11.11: Switch to fence-sitter on Gates possibility
- 2008.11.11: Tom's article for World Politics Review
- 2008.11.11: Name that body of water
- 2008.11.11: Musical wanderings
- 2008.11.11: Europe steps up, but the U.S. not yet displaced
- 2008.11.11: SWFs to the resc----no, they're waiting for the right prices to surface this time
- 2008.11.10: Sense and senselessness on the financial crisis
- 2008.11.10: More on what went right in Iraq
- 2008.11.10: No gloating in Beijing over this mess
- 2008.11.10: Dream on WRT SECDEF Gates
- 2008.11.10: Let's graduate from strategic children
- 2008.11.09: Column 127
- 2008.11.08: Hugh Shelton is a towering figure!
- 2008.11.08: Chivers' account on start of Russian-Georgian war finally emerges
- 2008.11.08: The state-within-the-state that flexes a bit of muscle: all hail the Puntland military!
- 2008.11.08: Finally, the promise keepers arrive
- 2008.11.07: Good choice on Emanuel
- 2008.11.07: Good article/citation for my "post-Caucasian" column
- 2008.11.07: Teach your children well on the environment—and 20 years later you've got a new way of thinking
- 2008.11.07: A book to consider on the GWOT WRT AFRICOM
- 2008.11.07: The Pentagon feels the need . . . the need for astronomic speed!
- 2008.11.06: In crisis, there is great opportunity
- 2008.11.06: A wonderfully concise history of banking in America
- 2008.11.06: GOPEC seems inevitable
- 2008.11.06: Notice how the AU welcomes Africom
- 2008.11.06: Rara avis
- 2008.11.05: Russia: break out the sickles!
- 2008.11.05: Global economy info graphic
- 2008.11.05: Into Africa
- 2008.11.05: Globalized downturn and recovery
- 2008.11.05: Frontier integration
- 2008.11.04: Historic day all around
- 2008.11.04: The heat is on . . . the oligarchs
- 2008.11.04: Not so fast on the post-American world
- 2008.11.04: Would Iran strike preemptively?
- 2008.11.04: When even hardware is open source
- 2008.11.04: Kagan must be read
- 2008.11.03: The next Petraeus plan
- 2008.11.03: Whither globalization in Latin America now?
- 2008.11.03: Salvo in Crusader debate
- 2008.11.03: Hamilton wins again and Jefferson loses again
- 2008.11.03: Eye to eye
- 2008.11.02: Native Americans are just Asians--thousands of years removed
- 2008.11.02: The hyphen versus en-dash versus em-dash
- 2008.11.02: Column 126
- 2008.11.02: The repetition of repetition
- 2008.11.01: Single party dynamic
- 2008.11.01: Same as it ever was: Russia
- 2008.11.01: Read it and don't weep.
- 2008.10.31: I choose The Economist and Obama
- 2008.10.31: America's place (and Kagan's and Obama's)
- 2008.10.31: WSJ for Gates
- 2008.10.31: The three images of this election, in the voter's mind
- 2008.10.31: An accurate and pithy post-mortem on Bush
- 2008.10.30: A (minor) change in terminology
- 2008.10.30: I chill somewhat on the Second Pass
- 2008.10.30: Mother of God!
- 2008.10.30: The Economist's call on presidential candidates' economic plans
- 2008.10.30: Conservatives for Obama
- 2008.10.30: Mallaby sees a grand bargain opportunity in this financial crisis
- 2008.10.30: China, not looking to step up, not ready to step up, but needs to step up—now
- 2008.10.30: As I predicted, Iraq’s oil industries won’t be waiting on the central government deal
- 2008.10.29: Got second pass in hand
- 2008.10.29: Lunching with the loggies
- 2008.10.29: Harder for people to cross the border, but easier for money
- 2008.10.29: Pakistan squeezes the balloon
- 2008.10.29: Media bias? Waa!
- 2008.10.29: The Gap and the panic map
- 2008.10.28: Server problems
- 2008.10.28: Wetting your pants in public is embarrassing
- 2008.10.28: Would Al Qaeda prefer McCain?
- 2008.10.28: Obama the symbol
- 2008.10.28: Too late for the split-branch appeal
- 2008.10.27: Two in the hopper
- 2008.10.27: The five fallacies of doom-and-gloomers
- 2008.10.27: Crisis and the next administration
- 2008.10.27: Are Obama's coat tails long enough for Franken?
- 2008.10.26: Column 125
- 2008.10.25: Rebrand or re-Bush?
- 2008.10.25: Tom around the web
- 2008.10.24: The "final pass" is delayed
- 2008.10.24: Lots of snakes offer that apple
- 2008.10.24: Ivan, can you spare a rocket?
- 2008.10.24: Bargaining from strength, Taiwan buys and buys
- 2008.10.24: A reality of the globalization of the defense industry
- 2008.10.23: An open call for ideas for public briefs in DC & NY in early February to support the book release
- 2008.10.23: Evolutionary Enlightenment's interview with Tom
- 2008.10.23: The great awakening in Russia
- 2008.10.23: Who wins where terrorism loses out to crime
- 2008.10.22: Catching up with the Kims
- 2008.10.22: Roy’s prediction on Islam in France going the route of unreformed Catholicism
- 2008.10.22: God, those Boomers are sensitive
- 2008.10.22: Why can't we just all get along?
- 2008.10.21: Going too harsh on Brooks
- 2008.10.21: Amazon finally gets a pic up for Great Powers
- 2008.10.21: The Pacific Century in terms of U.S. immigration
- 2008.10.21: I have waited years for this analysis on management consulting!
- 2008.10.21: The continued rehabilitation of Chile's military
- 2008.10.21: You play with the big boys, you enjoy their same threats.
- 2008.10.20: The story about Favre . . .
- 2008.10.20: A clear rule set for the comments
- 2008.10.20: Tom's latest piece for GOOD
- 2008.10.20: Pack trounces Colts
- 2008.10.20: Argentina's bankruptcy—still proceeding
- 2008.10.20: The world's connected now
- 2008.10.20: Will the loser whining from Brooks on Obama never end? [updated]
- 2008.10.19: Dreaming of Maine
- 2008.10.19: Column 124
- 2008.10.18: Funniest line from Obama at the Al Smith dinner
- 2008.10.18: Simplistic portrayals of Russia don't cut it
- 2008.10.17: Abizaid repeats the call I’ve offered back in 2005 on Iran’s nuke effort
- 2008.10.17: India’s military: heart’s in the right place, but acquisition is not
- 2008.10.17: We need clever leadership
- 2008.10.17: The Petraeus outlook
- 2008.10.16: A favorite NYC landmark building
- 2008.10.16: More Amory
- 2008.10.16: Core and Gap: Assumed
- 2008.10.16: What's dead? War without the everything else
- 2008.10.16: A huge but necessary step, long predicted
- 2008.10.15: The Map shows shared vulnerability
- 2008.10.15: Bear marker reins in resurgent Russian bear
- 2008.10.15: South Africa self-destructs
- 2008.10.15: An important milestone in Iraq's economic connectivity
- 2008.10.15: Do you believe there's a silver lining?
- 2008.10.14: The continuing connectivity/content tradeoff in the Middle East
- 2008.10.14: I was being optimistic on Afghanistan in my upcoming Good article
- 2008.10.14: More like 5 foot-nine
- 2008.10.14: The world keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping . . . into the future
- 2008.10.14: Catching up with technology
- 2008.10.13: Why this election must get dirty
- 2008.10.13: A nice profile of Amory Lovins
- 2008.10.13: North Korean hope
- 2008.10.13: Nagl on the new field manual
- 2008.10.13: Proud path
- 2008.10.12: The general as intellectual omnivore
- 2008.10.12: Column 123
- 2008.10.11: Can the Core do official developmental aid more poorly?
- 2008.10.11: SysAdmin zombies
- 2008.10.10: State of grace in Islamic finance
- 2008.10.10: Another response to Bacevich
- 2008.10.10: Opportunities in hysteria
- 2008.10.10: More pressure on Iran
- 2008.10.10: Visualize China's size
- 2008.10.09: That emerging middle class—nice snapshot of Brazil's contingent
- 2008.10.09: China's labor decline—extended by an echo?
- 2008.10.09: When global trade talks fade, regional and bilateral thrive
- 2008.10.09: Calling off the divorce in Bolivia—for now
- 2008.10.09: Ramadan's continued evolution
- 2008.10.08: The temptation on the book . . .
- 2008.10.08: How to view this system perturbation
- 2008.10.08: A carbon-dating of China's economic development
- 2008.10.08: The August surprise that didn’t surprise McCain
- 2008.10.08: The Bush abdication, viewed from the Petraeus angle
- 2008.10.08: The more strategic analysis of the financial crisis emerges
- 2008.10.07: Corrections to advance copy
- 2008.10.07: The Russian Petrocracy not looking so strong
- 2008.10.07: Another example of P2P "UDA"
- 2008.10.07: The hi-lo mix in trust environments
- 2008.10.07: The Veep debate
- 2008.10.07: An example of the shift from single-party rule to mature democracy
- 2008.10.06: Getting down to details on the book
- 2008.10.06: Spreading the word to the spiritual-minded
- 2008.10.06: Give an underage regime a gun and hope for the best
- 2008.10.06: Why the bargain hunting will be intense
- 2008.10.06: Expect the trouble before next talks with Pyongyang
- 2008.10.06: We're done with hedgehogs
- 2008.10.05: WW2 re-enactment
- 2008.10.05: Column 122
- 2008.10.04: The baby formula scandal starts to deeply perturb China's dairy sector
- 2008.10.04: Great Powers Preface Wordle
- 2008.10.03: 104 today!
- 2008.10.03: How the GWOT and conservative judges have diminished U.S. judicial influence around the world
- 2008.10.03: Missing Musharraf
- 2008.10.03: The states experiment with new rules, as states are wont to do
- 2008.10.03: Shift: feminization
- 2008.10.03: Oprah International
- 2008.10.02: Big war dinosaurs after the asteroid
- 2008.10.02: Real power is demand
- 2008.10.02: Police yourself before the police come
- 2008.10.02: Two additional glass-filling-up views of Africa
- 2008.10.02: What goes on behind the Great Firewall . . . ultimately won't stay behind the Great Firewall
- 2008.10.01: The latest from Gates
- 2008.10.01: The model fails to work in Chad, but still makes sense
- 2008.10.01: We could've had Iran
- 2008.10.01: Conservative trojan horse
- 2008.10.01: Up, up and away
- 2008.09.30: When the unthinkable becomes the obvious
- 2008.09.30: Hope for Palestine
- 2008.09.30: Connect and charge
- 2008.09.30: The Lord works in mysterious ways ...
- 2008.09.30: Tom around the web
- 2008.09.30: Looking for guys to surface for address purposes
- 2008.09.30: Tom in the Early Bird
- 2008.09.30: Tom's three profiles in the October 2008 Esquire
- 2008.09.30: I find the Economist’s views on Russia to be quite validating
- 2008.09.30: AFRICOM's still seminal
- 2008.09.30: The EU wins this rule-set round
- 2008.09.30: U.S. leads the way in competitiveness—and factory management
- 2008.09.30: A bit o' Gap shrinkage by Tata—take it one nano at a time
- 2008.09.29: Third of Esquire profiles
- 2008.09.29: Ideological lipstick
- 2008.09.29: The real target of Russian pressure on the Caucasus
- 2008.09.29: Esquire's electronic ink
- 2008.09.29: Good Layman's SysAdmin Article
- 2008.09.29: I find the Economist’s views on Sarah Palin quite validating
- 2008.09.29: The mix on food prices (scarcity, affluence, and biofuels)
- 2008.09.29: South Africa's single-party state sputtering
- 2008.09.29: Wall Street’s system deeply perturbed—like clockwork
- 2008.09.29: Dissecting the surge’s success
- 2008.09.28: Column 121
- 2008.09.27: A mistake on Esquire's site
- 2008.09.27: Brief and a nice meal x3
- 2008.09.27: Interesting additional pressuring/signaling by Russia
- 2008.09.26: The older man takes the content but the younger man passes the threshold
- 2008.09.26: A billion elders by 2050--in China and India alone!
- 2008.09.26: The yin to Doha's yang: regional deals
- 2008.09.26: Another county heard from on alternative energy!
- 2008.09.26: How fast to shift in the direction of Pickens' Plan on energy?
- 2008.09.26: Cool connectivity tool for healthcare in India
- 2008.09.25: Differences in presidencies already seen
- 2008.09.25: Tom's Foreword to The John Boyd Roundtable
- 2008.09.25: Interesting rule-set adoption--and adaptation--on rendition
- 2008.09.25: The coming rise in global ag trade
- 2008.09.25: About as basic an argument as you can get
- 2008.09.25: $5T=overkill
- 2008.09.25: Putin's limits displayed again
- 2008.09.25: The limits of authoritarianism become apparent in Russia
- 2008.09.25: Sure there's some bad...
- 2008.09.25: Identity is even more key than economics
- 2008.09.25: Who do you trust?
- 2008.09.24: Uncorrected Proof for Limited Distribution--in hand
- 2008.09.24: Stay away, you diseased infidel!
- 2008.09.24: If you want to piss off young men in a traditional society ...
- 2008.09.24: Great Powers Wordle
- 2008.09.24: SECDEF right (as usual)
- 2008.09.24: More financial pain for Russia
- 2008.09.23: Good Shepherd Methodist church sign in NVA
- 2008.09.23: The sad truth about China's tainted products
- 2008.09.23: Slap down, again
- 2008.09.23: A real market clash within OPEC
- 2008.09.23: Tom around the web
- 2008.09.23: The aborted call for a new security club for Asia and Europe--from Moscow
- 2008.09.23: Where the emergency military funds end, Development-in-a-Box™ begins
- 2008.09.23: 'The Mullah regime is swirling slowly down the drain'
- 2008.09.23: Desert island pick
- 2008.09.23: Fukuyama on Russia
- 2008.09.22: How 'bout them Boys!
- 2008.09.22: Mallaby: better idea than Congress
- 2008.09.22: Power-of-supply reasoning
- 2008.09.22: A different Russia this time around
- 2008.09.22: Old Core focus: Japan
- 2008.09.22: Theocratic politics
- 2008.09.21: Beautiful night
- 2008.09.21: Esquire PNM Wordle
- 2008.09.21: Column 120
- 2008.09.20: Broder on closer for Obama
- 2008.09.20: Smart argument from Will on McCain
- 2008.09.20: Different ways to measure poverty
- 2008.09.19: Great Powers is really done now
- 2008.09.19: Waiting, waiting ...
- 2008.09.19: Second of Esquire 75th anniversary trio
- 2008.09.19: Peters on Putin: nationalist and pragmatic, mystical and cold, and plays by own rules
- 2008.09.19: One percent reality
- 2008.09.19: Rules need to catch up
- 2008.09.19: Tom around the web
- 2008.09.18: First of Esquire 75th anniversary trio online
- 2008.09.18: More evidence of Core financial punishment for Putin's Georgia play
- 2008.09.18: Globalization is bigger than us
- 2008.09.18: Mugabe escapes again! Thanks to South Africa's half-assed efforts at preventive SysAdmin
- 2008.09.18: More efficiency logic emerging thanks to high oil prices
- 2008.09.17: The master edit continues ....
- 2008.09.17: Lost weekend
- 2008.09.17: We adjust to higher oil prices, like we live in a market economy or something!
- 2008.09.17: The real cyber war involves products (and their reputations), not denial of services
- 2008.09.17: India's Growth Outstrips Crops
- 2008.09.17: New Core Hicks Nicks Biggest American Pix Helmer!
- 2008.09.17: High gas prices are—for lack of better words—good
- 2008.09.16: From Eddie Bauer to Jack Bauer—what 9/11 hath wrought
- 2008.09.16: How much for the bridge?
- 2008.09.16: Has a nice early detente feel, doesn't it?
- 2008.09.16: Stand on guard
- 2008.09.16: Take the red pill
- 2008.09.15: God--for lack of a better word--is good … for business
- 2008.09.15: Islamists running a globalizing economy—and well
- 2008.09.15: Turn Taliban and Al Qaida against each other
- 2008.09.15: Russian backlash adds up
- 2008.09.15: Who do you think has it right?
- 2008.09.14: Column 119
- 2008.09.13: The blogger quoted
- 2008.09.13: Does Ahmadinejad's stock now rise?
- 2008.09.13: Tom on Terrence McNally
- 2008.09.12: Quick in and out--Beantown
- 2008.09.12: War within the context of everything else prompts delayed gratification
- 2008.09.12: Q&A: Afghanistan
- 2008.09.12: Supermarkets connect
- 2008.09.12: Want to throw out Russia casually?
- 2008.09.12: Now is no time to go all wobbly
- 2008.09.11: I stand corrected on Woodward's The War Within
- 2008.09.11: My mistake on galleys
- 2008.09.11: Congress should approve Indian nuke deal
- 2008.09.11: Don't lose perspective on ship movements
- 2008.09.11: McCain's gains
- 2008.09.11: Actually, I am comforted by such alleged/real "hypocrisy"
- 2008.09.10: The usual crush of editing
- 2008.09.10: Woodward's strange account of Fallon's resignation [corrected]
- 2008.09.10: Impressions of Dubai
- 2008.09.10: Terrorism in a vacuum (redux)
- 2008.09.10: Tom around the web
- 2008.09.09: Sounds like a recount to me
- 2008.09.09: More reasonableness from a lame duck president
- 2008.09.09: The inevitable redirect
- 2008.09.09: Nice "dear leader" you've got there . . . be a shame if somebody slipped him a stroke!
- 2008.09.09: Holy M--, M-- of G--! The first galley is being overnighted!
- 2008.09.09: Don’t let the door hit you on your way out
- 2008.09.09: $2B in missiles for your League of Democracies
- 2008.09.09: What? No resource wars?
- 2008.09.08: The only season that matters
- 2008.09.08: Yes, Stewart's great, but...
- 2008.09.08: Civilian Expeditionary Force/SysAdmin
- 2008.09.08: Is Israel China's gateway into Middle Eastern involvement?
- 2008.09.07: Comment upgrade: Party and access
- 2008.09.07: Comment upgrade: Campaign optimism
- 2008.09.07: Column 118
- 2008.09.07: An essential problem, given the tasks that lie ahead
- 2008.09.06: A nice rendition of why it's okay to be gloomy right now on globalization
- 2008.09.06: Cell phone diplomacy
- 2008.09.05: A clarification on my posts about Palin
- 2008.09.05: Respecting Ramadan
- 2008.09.05: Connectivity enhanced--the old-school way
- 2008.09.05: Digital cash in Iraq
- 2008.09.05: More on the comment policy
- 2008.09.05: Right call on ag
- 2008.09.04: Easy to imagine McCain as president
- 2008.09.04: A good problem to have
- 2008.09.04: With allies like this ...
- 2008.09.04: Georgia 'opportunity' cost: $8B
- 2008.09.04: Yin and yang, baby
- 2008.09.03: Maybe a bit of overkill on my part regarding Russia redirect by Pentagon
- 2008.09.03: The Russian strategic rationale emerges
- 2008.09.03: Opportunity in Africa
- 2008.09.03: Tom around the web
- 2008.09.02: Kagan is much smarter than this
- 2008.09.02: Friends, the idle brain is the Devil's playground
- 2008.09.02: Things begin to settle out
- 2008.09.01: The logic still holds on terrorism
- 2008.09.01: Putin has some 'splaining to do
- 2008.08.31: Column 117
- 2008.08.30: Interesting difference in Veep choices
- 2008.08.30: How do the two czars endanger Russians?
- 2008.08.29: Still deeply but closely divided
- 2008.08.29: Obama's my one
- 2008.08.29: The Mei Mei watches the Pack play!
- 2008.08.29: Great sign: China on Russia
- 2008.08.28: Barack the Vote!
- 2008.08.28: Hit 'em where they is!
- 2008.08.28: Negotiations
- 2008.08.28: Cheney's right
- 2008.08.28: Wandering DC ...
- 2008.08.27: Galrahn "outexplicits" me, kicking my strategic ass
- 2008.08.27: The tat now fully delivered
- 2008.08.27: Ouch Kim! Very ouch
- 2008.08.27: Tom around the web
- 2008.08.26: Russia's competing America-style
- 2008.08.26: Iraq changes
- 2008.08.26: Good piece by Gordon on where we're at in Iraq
- 2008.08.25: Add this!
- 2008.08.25: Fab says Tom's brilliant
- 2008.08.25: I was wrong on the weather, but golden on China's medal total
- 2008.08.25: Want to revive the Cold and abandon the Long?
- 2008.08.25: Traditional walls inevitably come down
- 2008.08.24: Column 116
- 2008.08.23: No harm done
- 2008.08.23: Party line, intelligently delivered
- 2008.08.23: History should never be confused with actual events
- 2008.08.22: The calmer Friedman accounts for economics
- 2008.08.22: Indulge your inner optimist
- 2008.08.22: Some re-calculations by Tehran, probably in light of Russia-Georgia
- 2008.08.22: Let Russia join NATO?
- 2008.08.21: The Core comes with competing rule sets
- 2008.08.21: In the bag and forthcoming
- 2008.08.21: Nice, sensible piece by zenpundit
- 2008.08.21: Pretty bold signal, I would say
- 2008.08.21: (George) Friedman's trying too hard
- 2008.08.20: Prayers answered
- 2008.08.20: Russia could be a strategic partner
- 2008.08.20: Stupidity doesn't get any better than this
- 2008.08.20: Fantastic piece by Spengler
- 2008.08.20: Natural to assume a quid pro quo
- 2008.08.19: There are no indispensable men
- 2008.08.19: Immature democracies are dangerous
- 2008.08.19: Tom around the web
- 2008.08.18: Buchanan sense
- 2008.08.18: Classic dynamic at work here
- 2008.08.18: Tom around the web
- 2008.08.17: Column 115
- 2008.08.16: The recent RAND study on terror groups/insurgencies ...
- 2008.08.16: Very sensible analysis on Russia's intentions
- 2008.08.16: Remember: the New Core sets the new rules
- 2008.08.16: A glimpse of the future of citizenship
- 2008.08.15: Bush, so far, has played it cool on Russia
- 2008.08.15: Thinking PR with Putnam/Penguin
- 2008.08.15: Morning with USAID Asia
- 2008.08.15: If you're media (any kind), and you think you want to do something on Great Powers at the start of February . . .
- 2008.08.14: By all means, vote with your dollars, but when you point that missile . . .
- 2008.08.14: Request for prayers
- 2008.08.14: Long Day with the Army of the West
- 2008.08.14: Guest Post: Lt. Gen. William Caldwell
- 2008.08.13: Great (George) Friedman quote on Russia
- 2008.08.13: Tom in Leavenworth
- 2008.08.12: 'I learned it from watching you!'
- 2008.08.12: Back with the Army of the West
- 2008.08.12: China, pollution and the Olympics
- 2008.08.11: Perfect capture of individual trajectory in China
- 2008.08.11: A casualty of globalization--Mauritania
- 2008.08.10: Column 114
- 2008.08.09: The king is dead. Long live the Mad Man!
- 2008.08.09: Answering the inevitable question on Russia
- 2008.08.09: Actually, it was Georgia's timing ...
- 2008.08.09: The Gap: where it's hardest to grow food and where populations grow fastest
- 2008.08.08: Putin picks his moment on Georgia
- 2008.08.08: It's water, plus a focus on the dog--not the tail
- 2008.08.08: Two down, one to go in global currency balancing function
- 2008.08.08: Connectivity empowers the Gap: person by person
- 2008.08.08: The pain just isn't there yet on Doha
- 2008.08.08: Long predicted, but nonetheless an important milestone
- 2008.08.07: Own it, baby!
- 2008.08.07: Tom around the web
- 2008.08.07: What's the Sahara good for?
- 2008.08.07: China's rural consolidation far from over
- 2008.08.07: The basic suspicion confirmed on Favre
- 2008.08.06: Quick quiz on who supplies American oil
- 2008.08.06: A tipping point on de-/regulation
- 2008.08.06: Disaster response backdoor to mil-mil cooperation
- 2008.08.06: I give you ... one strand of an energy future that is both inevitable and good!
- 2008.08.06: What he said!
- 2008.08.06: A truly brilliant blog post by Galrahn
- 2008.08.05: You know you're in Bean Town when ...
- 2008.08.05: Now globalization incentivizes energy conservation instead of living off cheap energy
- 2008.08.05: Good ol' Gates (again)
- 2008.08.05: China short-circuiting the processes--both grief and guilt
- 2008.08.05: The latest and greatest Brief video
- 2008.08.05: Putin, like Old Hickory
- 2008.08.04: Favre better win his job back, because trading him to the Vikes is beyond boneheaded
- 2008.08.04: The realistic but observant take on China
- 2008.08.04: "Charlie Wilson's Peace" with the right ending!
- 2008.08.04: This is a job for SysAdmin
- 2008.08.04: Some truly bad thinking from Brooks
- 2008.08.04: El Nuevo Mapa del Pentagono
- 2008.08.03: Column 113
- 2008.08.02: More good news in Iraq
- 2008.08.02: Success breeds expectations
- 2008.08.01: Obama-Clinton ticket as statistically worthwhile
- 2008.08.01: The regional security dialogue emerges--sans US
- 2008.08.01: Thanks for the new world order
- 2008.08.01: The struggle for the soul of the global middle class
- 2008.08.01: Good stuff from Fareed Zakaria on Obama v. McCain
- 2008.07.31: Actually, John, that’s the perfect answer for the age
- 2008.07.31: Post-Fidel Cuba is moving right along ...
- 2008.07.31: China missing the opportunity on the Sichuan earthquake
- 2008.07.31: Where U.S. imports from
- 2008.07.31: The Iraq-is-all narrative is waning
- 2008.07.30: "High Water Mark of the Rebellion"
- 2008.07.30: Tom in Gettysburg 2
- 2008.07.30: Tom around the web
- 2008.07.30: Double duh on Darfur
- 2008.07.30: Obama's running mate
- 2008.07.29: Tom at Gettysburg
- 2008.07.29: Beijing and masking-up for the Games
- 2008.07.29: The Economist weighs in on the Med Union
- 2008.07.29: Classic revelation about a doom-and-gloomer
- 2008.07.29: The set-up on Iran, by Iran?
- 2008.07.29: China’s outward push on FDI
- 2008.07.29: What The Economist said!
- 2008.07.29: Amen brother. NGOs and PVOs are no way to build a nation
- 2008.07.28: Map still looking solid
- 2008.07.28: You use religion in politics, and eventually you get a backlash from … the believers!
- 2008.07.28: Tom: the KatPol interview
- 2008.07.28: Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose
- 2008.07.28: The passed-off danger within the global economy
- 2008.07.28: Those religious Chinese
- 2008.07.27: This week's column (#112)
- 2008.07.26: The chicken (happiness) gets you the egg (democracy)
- 2008.07.26: The only election stuff that matters
- 2008.07.25: Spoke at "Serviam" celebration sponsored by Blackwater Worldwide
- 2008.07.25: Latest talk in DC
- 2008.07.25: Obama and McCain
- 2008.07.25: What do we learn from southern Europe’s experiments on immigration?
- 2008.07.25: Saudis/Arabs following Chinese lead on equity crops
- 2008.07.25: A natural but welcome tension in micro-loans
- 2008.07.25: The shift by Old Core carmakers to New Core car markets continues apace
- 2008.07.24: Few yielding to the many
- 2008.07.24: Another sign of al Qaeda’s limits on soft power
- 2008.07.24: Some sense of internal debate in North Korea
- 2008.07.24: There will always be a “cause celebre” for al Qaeda
- 2008.07.24: Duh! There’s real money to be made!
- 2008.07.24: Tom in Global Times
- 2008.07.23: Recognizing the inevitables to approach the inconceivables
- 2008.07.23: Some numbers arising from New Core demand
- 2008.07.23: Been watching this proposed energy flow for a while
- 2008.07.23: Guest Post: KC-17 Many-Mission Tanker Idea
- 2008.07.23: Gates' balancing act
- 2008.07.23: I love this kind of evidence of change
- 2008.07.22: Saudi change
- 2008.07.22: The Leviathan is eventually forced to give it up
- 2008.07.22: There she is, Miss Core-wannabe ... !
- 2008.07.22: Chinese DiB
- 2008.07.22: US, EU look south for fresh strength
- 2008.07.22: Good signs but stay vigilant
- 2008.07.21: Next-war crowd fights back
- 2008.07.21: Just plain good
- 2008.07.21: Good in the direction of Iran
- 2008.07.21: Connectivity is part of the cure
- 2008.07.21: Kaplan at his best
- 2008.07.21: Dreaming for Iran
- 2008.07.21: Only bad interventions must necessarily be huge ones
- 2008.07.20: This week's column
- 2008.07.19: Now a trifecta in the October issue of Esquire
- 2008.07.19: Quake-response by PLA not impressive
- 2008.07.19: Sense of how our sanctions turned Iran eastward, or just globalization?
- 2008.07.18: ADM Mike Mullen when visiting AFRICOM senior staff:
- 2008.07.18: A reminder of where the fight logically retreats over time
- 2008.07.18: A glimpse of the future in China
- 2008.07.18: Membership has its prvilieges
- 2008.07.18: Better than mine
- 2008.07.18: Sichuan earthquake = system perturbation
- 2008.07.17: First great catch-up on blog since book
- 2008.07.17: Supreme wiggle room
- 2008.07.17: The worm finally starts to turn on Iran
- 2008.07.17: Becoming less inscrutable
- 2008.07.17: Want leverage with China on Sudan?
- 2008.07.17: Bush:Iran::Farve:Packers
- 2008.07.17: Emerging candidate consensus on Afghan/Paki-stan
- 2008.07.17: The most vigorous glass-half-full reading by two key architects of the surge
- 2008.07.16: Taking stock ...
- 2008.07.16: From Tehran to Baghdad, Kabul to Islamabad
- 2008.07.16: True, but G-8 can be altered in ways UNSC can't
- 2008.07.16: Finally, a poll that matters--the electoral map
- 2008.07.16: Connectivity forces submission to accepted global rule sets
- 2008.07.16: Natural request by Iraq
- 2008.07.16: Unpopular trifecta
- 2008.07.16: I retract on Favre
- 2008.07.15: Back in the saddle . . .
- 2008.07.15: If Iran wants to trigger US strikes for domestic purposes, this is the route
- 2008.07.15: Real progress, in my mind, in Russia
- 2008.07.15: A glimpse of future capabilities
- 2008.07.15: Congrats to Mark
- 2008.07.15: Everything must go!
- 2008.07.14: Gotta read this one from Steve
- 2008.07.14: Shift in front
- 2008.07.14: The essence of Russia today
- 2008.07.14: This deal was set a while back
- 2008.07.14: We will see this in spades--efficiency as the answer
- 2008.07.14: The reality of China's globalization exposure
- 2008.07.13: This week's column
- 2008.07.12: Ahmadinejad de-selected by the Supreme Leader?
- 2008.07.12: "We'd by happy to try him. Just bring him by."
- 2008.07.12: It was just a matter of time
- 2008.07.12: You gotta' make sure your connected
- 2008.07.11: Let me say it right now on Favre
- 2008.07.11: Negotiations begin at the scary part
- 2008.07.11: Rooftop DC party
- 2008.07.11: Connected
- 2008.07.11: Still think Iran can never connect?
- 2008.07.11: Match and close
- 2008.07.11: Familiar concepts from Leavenworth
- 2008.07.10: All systems "go" for war
- 2008.07.10: We made our choice on Iraq, now we get Iran and N Korea
- 2008.07.10: Wishing Mugabe ill
- 2008.07.10: A glimpse of what lies ahead--inevitably
- 2008.07.10: Uncalled for and unwise
- 2008.07.10: Tom in the NY Review of Books
- 2008.07.09: Mentoring via books and email
- 2008.07.09: Ma is good on his promises
- 2008.07.09: When binary is stupid
- 2008.07.09: Tom in AFJ
- 2008.07.09: Exactly what the doctor ordered
- 2008.07.08: