Thomas P.M.
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Title
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface: An Operating Theory of the World . . . . . 1
1. NEW RULE SETS . . . . . 9
Playing Jack Ryan
New Rules for a New Era
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Rule-set Shifts From Cold War To Current EraPresent at the Creation
A Future Worth Creating
2. THE RISE OF THE "LESSER INCLUDEDS" . . . . . 59
The Manthorpe Curve
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First Attempt To Explain Cult Of PowerPointThe Fracturing of the Security Market
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Introducing Kenneth Waltz' Three PerspectivesThe Rise of Asymmetrical Warfare
How 9/11 Saved the Pentagon from Itself
3. DISCONNECTEDNESS DEFINES DANGER . . . . . 107
How I Learned to Think Horizontally
Mapping Globalization's Frontier
Minding the Gap
To Live and Die in the Gap
Different Worlds, Different Rule Sets
Why I Hate the "Arc of Instability"
4. THE CORE AND THE GAP . . . . . 191
The Military-Market Link
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More Definitions of Rule Sets and Global ChangeDELETED SCENE #5:
Wall Street's Map Versus the Pentagon's MapThe Flow of People,
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Population BombDELETED SCENE #7:
The Old Core's Challenge on Aging DemographicsThe Flow of Energy,
or Whose Blood for Whose Oil?The Flow of Money,
or Why We Won't Be Going to War with ChinaDELETED SCENE #8:
The Deleted Back Half of the Section on FDIThe Flow of Security,
or How America Must Keep Globalization in BalanceDELETED SCENE #9:
How I Really Got Invited to IndiaDELETED SCENE #10:
The Core's Public Exports By EraDELETED SCENE #11:
The Original Truncated Ending to the Section
5. THE NEW ORDERING PRICIPLE . . . . . 247
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How Vonne and I Survive Emily's Cancer As A CoupleOvertaken by Events
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Dreaming of 9/11 Before It HappenedDELETED SCENE #15:
Being Realistic About the Threat In This EraDELETED SCENE #16:
Y2K as a Learning Experience for Anticipating a 9/11-Like EventThe Rise of System Perturbations
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9/11 As An Existence Proof of System PerturbationsDELETED SCENE #18:
9/11 as a Combo of Vertical Shock and Horizontal WavesDELETED SCENE #19:
More Details on the Definition of a System PerturbationNew Crisis, New Rules (DELETED SCENE #22:
Barnett's Rules on System Perturbations)The Greater Inclusive
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More Background on the Three-Front War ConceptThe Big Bang as Strategy
6. THE GLOBAL TRANSACTION STRATEGY . . . . . 295
You're Ruining My Military!
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Deciding When to Intervene MilitarilyDELETED SCENE #24:
More on When to Intervene Inside the GapDELETED SCENE #25:
How Big an Interventionary Workload Can DOD Handle?The Essential Transaction
The System Administrator
The American Way of War
7. THE MYTHS WE MAKE . . . . . 341
(I Will Now Dispel)
The Myth of Global Chaos
The Myth of America as Globocop
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Racking and Stacking the Threat WorldwideThe Myth of American Empire
8. HOPE WITHOUT GUARANTEES . . . . . 367
Acknowledgements . . . . . 385
Notes . . . . . 391
Index . . . . . 427