The second-most popular link this week was to Tom's new article in Esquire about Africom, The Americans Have Landed. Links:
+ The Huffington Post linked the story, almost in wire-fashion, and created a lot of traffic.
+ Warfare 2050 (mentioned the article, but didn't have the link yet)
+ Baudrillard's Bastard
+ The Blue Herald
+ American Footprints (6/13)
+ Cowboy J
+ Africa Media didn't like the story.
+ Chris Floyd linked it with an ideological axe to grind.
+ And, just in, Foreign Policy has it on their reading list.
+ 5GW has a major post on Tom's thinking called On the Barnettian 5GW. Therein, Curtis coins the term 'Barnettian paradox'.
+ Lexington Green mentioned Tom quite a few times in his Article Roundup.
+ jDub™ posts a semi book report on PNM.
+ InsideDefense mentioned Tom, but it's subscription only. Here's the excerpt from Google: 'Other defense observers, such as author Thomas Barnett, have previously disputed this line of thinking, likening it to trumped-up estimates of Soviet power...'
+ MountainRunner linked AFRICOM as embryonic DoEE.
+ ArtLung Blog linked No divided loyalties, no permanent friends.
+ Valley of the Shadow linked One Leviathan, many SysAdmins.
+ Wolf Pangloss linked Great piece on Iran’s economic collapse, despite all the oil wealth.
+ International Consortium on Religion, Culture, and Dialogue linked yesterday's column.
What was most popular? Stay tuned!
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Comments (4)
Sean,
The post "Realpoliticks in a Unipolar World" is on the Blog: Valley of the Shadow.
Thanks for the notice.
Posted by JSF | June 18, 2007 8:35 PM
i know that, but must have zoned out for a minute in composing that post. thanks for the correction. amended above.
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June 18, 2007 8:50 PM
Sean,
No harm, no foul. Thanks for the links.
Posted by JSF | June 18, 2007 9:59 PM
Hmm. Ideological hack-job thought it may have been, Chris Floyd's post does bring up one good point. With an operation like the one that had been proposed, how do you tell the difference between columns of irregular soldiers and columns of refugees?
Posted by Michael | June 20, 2007 4:10 PM