{"id":50,"date":"2005-05-03T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-10-27T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:43:08","slug":"the-pentagons-new-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2005\/05\/03\/the-pentagons-new-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon&#8217;s New Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is an expanded version of an article written by T. Barnett a few years back.\u00a0 His basic thesis is that all the recent trouble spots our military has been involved in share one thing in common \u2013 they are not part of the economically integrated, functioning core.\u00a0 Put another way, economic integration with the free trading world creates economic co-dependency and an infusion of freedom (human rights) which are at odds with inter-nation war.\u00a0 Starting with that principal, he dissects US military policy since the end of the cold war.\u00a0 It is a very interesting analysis.\u00a0 Some of his ideas are clearly part of current U.S. foreign policy and the real reasons we are in Iraq.\u00a0 The book isn\u2019t perfect \u2013 Barnett is long winded, self aggrandizing, and idealistic (especially his predictions and solutions) \u2013 but those issues don\u2019t outweigh the novelty of his analysis and its relevance to the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is an expanded version of an article written by T. Barnett a few years back.\u00a0 His basic thesis is that all the recent trouble spots our military has been involved in share one thing in common \u2013 they are not part of the economically integrated, functioning core.\u00a0 Put another way, economic integration with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2005\/05\/03\/the-pentagons-new-map\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pentagon&#8217;s New Map<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,46],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-interesting","category-needs-review-date","tag-thomas-barnett"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}