Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace

http://www.ted.com In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US military: Break it in two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fierce soldiers capable of swift and immediate victories; and an internationally supported network of System Administrators, an older, wiser, more diverse organization that actually has the diplomacy and power it takes to build and maintain peace.

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[kingofthebrittains]

@xenophon86 Hey Xeno, JD here, I'm taking about his semantics. He's a salesman pitching a NWO approved "solution". He's a"Security" strategist so his whole context is old no matter how new he claims it is. This is just a different way to perpetuate control of the many by the few. The pentagon wouldn't hire him if his goals didn't match theirs in the long run. Sys Admin is another term for people policing each other for the overlords. This is not a world I want to live in!

[dinogrower]

This all entertaining but the information is not really anything that most people can apply to their own lives. Its good for a laugh. Not worth much more than that. And good luck with dealing with the rift between the religion of Islam and Westerner civilization. A second peace keeping institution is not going to do shit for that.

[mrinkognit]

USpolitic is the personified evil and the biggest enemy from all people over the world and the usamericans dont understand that they're governed by the enemy that's a shame

[hungoversundays]

@MrJeanSarkozy

You lost your argument when you put "R u a fag?".

And this guy is trying to put forward for an American World Police program, in other words stationing enough troops worldwide to counter any threat aimed at them aka an Empire, like the British did.

We do not want this.

[tantzer]

@MrJeanSarkozy You say, "7 billions ppl on earth and you're telling me about 600.000 [dead]." Thanks for confirming that you don't care about genocide. You proved my point. To you, 600,000 Iraqi children dead is nothing. You are not a human being; you're a beast, and the USA is ruled by dangerous people just like you.

[MrJeanSarkozy]

@tantzer 7 billions ppl on earth and you're telling me about "600.000". You're just a dumb anti-USA with no clue. "supporting dictators" Does it mean these dictators wouldn't have killed their people without USA anyway? No, they would. All USA do is not killing people for fun, it's undercover economy alliances. Its a cold and raw but it's not about "killing ppl". Dictators are killing anyway. (Would you talk about caesarus or any past empire leader with such a whiny and wussy manner? R u a fag?)

[tantzer]

@MrJeanSarkozy Your statistics are all wrong. According to UN figures, sanctions on Iraq in the 90's (which, let's recall, were based on a false WMD pretext), killed 600,000 children by the year 1996. This is just one example. The US has been making mischief all over the world, supporting dictators, overthrowing democracies, instigating wars,destroying nations, launching covert operations, etc. The US is the evil empire of our age, and it needs to be stopped at any cost.

[MrJeanSarkozy]

@tantzer "Take your genocidal wet-dreams elsewhere." There are more GENOCIDAL deaths every year in countries not ruled by the USA, all over the world, than USA would ever provoke in 50 years. Dumb ignorant. You need to find another angle to criticize what this guy is exposing because yours is totally flawed and irrelevant, for anyone who knows the real numbers.

[nooneisusingthisname]

Very clever, even if I am absolutely uncomfortable with the idea of leaving a nation in charge.