"The Pentagon's New Map"

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This paper discusses the book, "The Pentagon's New Map," written by Thomas Barnett. The book traces the shell-shocked strategic attitude after the Cold War's demise to the 1990s' conflagrations of European nationalism in Eastern Europe. The paper examines Barnett's proposal to create a nation-building 'after the fight' force and to have specific protocols for American military behavior, claiming that this might have been helpful in Iraq.

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"One of the greatest dangers and most common military fallacies of the leaders of a nation are to engage in the fighting of the last war, rather than the current and future strategic challenges facing the world. The United States military leaders were not exempt from this mistake, says Tom Barnett, in his book, The Pentagon's New Map, during the 1990's. Then, America was still focused in its design more upon on fighting the Cold War of the past, rather than looking to see how the new world order would create a different series of geographic alliances, between what the author calls functional and dysfunctional states."

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