Senior Managing Director, Enterra Solutions
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- 2008.05.16: The current bibliography (books only) of "Great Powers"
- 2008.05.16: Tom is on the (internet) radio tonight
- 2008.05.16: Two nights in a row!
- 2008.05.16: Grain companies will be the vilified oil companies of the future (like they were in the past)
- 2008.05.16: Zakaria's "Post-American World" and Kagan "The Return of History"
- 2008.05.16: America's China challenge (or why I fear McCain)
- 2008.05.16: Pay them now or cost yourself soon
- 2008.05.15: Tom's NOT on the (internet) radio tonight [updated]
- 2008.05.15: "Great Powers" to be released 2/5/09
- 2008.05.15: The fragility of perfection yields the practicality of cooperation
- 2008.05.15: Isn't it weird Bush can't manage one trial in seven years for 9/11?
- 2008.05.15: Myanmar: China and India
- 2008.05.15: Upgrade USAID
- 2008.05.14: God bless Canada--and Canadians
- 2008.05.14: Hear ye, hear ye: U.S. is number one in prisons!
- 2008.05.14: Scary glimpse of global warming future?
- 2008.05.14: There, there, young China
- 2008.05.14: Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure!
- 2008.05.14: Fields for food or fuel?
- 2008.05.13: Where in the world is Tom?
- 2008.05.13: To get rich is to get mobile
- 2008.05.13: Stupid choice by Putin shows limits of his imagination
- 2008.05.13: Gates in touch with the future but increasingly out of step with Pentagon's "big war" crowd
- 2008.05.13: Big surprise: Russia renationalizes the oil industry and production slumps
- 2008.05.13: Not what we were going for in Afghanistan
- 2008.05.12: Tom around the web
- 2008.05.12: Welcome to the blogroll
- 2008.05.12: Bush administration accepts "reality"—NEWSFLASH!
- 2008.05.12: China's version of open market activities—for now
- 2008.05.12: Two steps forward, one step back
- 2008.05.12: Bush will go to Beijing Olympics; that deal was made last fall
- 2008.05.11: This week's column
- 2008.05.10: Right out of Seinfeld
- 2008.05.10: Great article on unflat world
- 2008.05.10: Some reality on controlling CO2 emissions
- 2008.05.09: What I think I learn at the company retreat
- 2008.05.09: Ahmadinejad continues to lose power in the parliament
- 2008.05.09: SysAdmin, Iranian-style
- 2008.05.09: McCain could easily destroy globalization
- 2008.05.09: Connectors v. Disconnectors
- 2008.05.08: Clearly, I need to work more food metaphors into my bits
- 2008.05.08: A better form of strategic comms...
- 2008.05.08: The correct priority
- 2008.05.08: Terrorism in a vacuum
- 2008.05.08: Alarmist on Iran, except...
- 2008.05.08: Not exactly king of that universe, is he?
- 2008.05.07: Tested in Tucson
- 2008.05.07: Evolve our forces
- 2008.05.07: In China, the walled-garden Internet already under heavy attack from hacktivists
- 2008.05.07: Connectivity traded for content control: perfectly fine in the near term
- 2008.05.07: Workers getting uppity? Where have I seen this before?
- 2008.05.07: Brazil to catch the "oil curse"?
- 2008.05.06: Tom around the web
- 2008.05.06: Tempering China's chauvinism
- 2008.05.06: Remember the bit in Esquire about "if your grad degree involved a lot of memorization"?
- 2008.05.06: Speaking of growing food dependency …
- 2008.05.06: Urbanization will trigger rural land sale rights in China
- 2008.05.06: Our leadership is needed now more than ever
- 2008.05.06: Have to consider this one of the last "dominos" to fall
- 2008.05.05: Rock and a hard place
- 2008.05.05: Tom in Defense AT&L
- 2008.05.05: Consequences of losing a postwar
- 2008.05.05: Fascinating global counterinsurgency resources
- 2008.05.05: Proxy review
- 2008.05.04: Today...
- 2008.05.04: A key understanding of why I end up advocating Hillary over Obama
- 2008.05.04: This week's column
- 2008.05.03: We also need connectivity with foreign militaries
- 2008.05.03: Recent books read (7 of 7): Talbott's "The Great Experiment"
- 2008.05.02: Enough flying for one week
- 2008.05.02: This week’s column in a nutshell
- 2008.05.02: Recent books read (6 of 7): Wallis' "The Great Awakening"
- 2008.05.02: Recent books read (5 of 7): Krupp and Horn's "Earth: The Sequel"
- 2008.05.02: Recent books read (4 of 7): David Rothkopf's "Superclass"
- 2008.05.02: Recent books read (3 of 7): Robin Wright's "Dreams and Shadows"
- 2008.05.01: Quick trip to Amsterdam for two speeches and some conversation
- 2008.05.01: Recent books read (2 of 7): Glenny's "McMafia"
- 2008.05.01: Recent books read (1 of 7): Klare's "Rising Powers and Shrinking Planet"
- 2008.05.01: Throw Momma under the surge
- 2008.05.01: Interview on CNSNews.com
- 2008.04.30: The coming capitalism
- 2008.04.30: Yes, I know, it's so stoopid to compare China to America's past (except here I go again)
- 2008.04.30: My son Kevin publishes his first photo in a major magazine
- 2008.04.30: Globalization is boring
- 2008.04.30: Maybe more evidence of a deal-in-the-making
- 2008.04.29: Tom around the web
- 2008.04.29: History will condemn us if...
- 2008.04.29: Four on a match
- 2008.04.29: Wrong-headed thinking from another age
- 2008.04.29: A big, good step forward
- 2008.04.29: The blunter the (two-way) approach, the better
- 2008.04.28: Vietnam-era logic
- 2008.04.28: First time ever this happens to me
- 2008.04.28: Boys and Bears
- 2008.04.28: SysAdmin reporting on the ground...
- 2008.04.28: Bush's only hope for a positive foreign policy legacy
- 2008.04.27: This week's column
- 2008.04.26: Very sensible Scales on Iraq
- 2008.04.26: Accolades for Howe
- 2008.04.25: Most excellent piece on global warming that makes best economic point
- 2008.04.25: How I would welcome a McCain presidency
- 2008.04.24: Tom around the web
- 2008.04.24: Unacceptable answer from Petraeus
- 2008.04.24: Some interesting stuff on the Iranian blogosphere
- 2008.04.23: Better for America that Petraeus does CENTCOM instead of EUCOM
- 2008.04.23: Classic COIN counter-attack
- 2008.04.23: Ground forces win postwars
- 2008.04.22: Putin and missile defense
- 2008.04.22: Russians, singing American songs (and vodka)
- 2008.04.21: The problem with being ex-military . . .
- 2008.04.21: Danny Federici's last perf
- 2008.04.21: Starting the sell inside Putnam
- 2008.04.21: Good stuff
- 2008.04.21: West Point abroad
- 2008.04.20: The book is done
- 2008.04.20: This week's column
- 2008.04.19: Big decisions on the book
- 2008.04.19: Wrong choice on missile defense v. NATO expansion
- 2008.04.19: Connectivity versus content: two examples
- 2008.04.18: Perhaps a big breakthrough in the works
- 2008.04.18: Robbing Peter's meal to gas Paul's car
- 2008.04.17: Don't expect spying to end anytime soon
- 2008.04.17: Being unrealistic is unforgivably stupid
- 2008.04.16: Early signs of the growing food hyper-interdependency
- 2008.04.16: The Chinese are everywhere!
- 2008.04.15: Zoellick has right idea, as usual
- 2008.04.15: Isn't it wonderful to belong to such a flexible multinational economic and political union?
- 2008.04.14: Chapter 11 in the box
- 2008.04.14: Global middle class ideology
- 2008.04.14: You think Leviathan personnel issues are tough...
- 2008.04.13: Last realignment chapter done but not completely signed off
- 2008.04.13: This week's column
- 2008.04.12: Low wattage
- 2008.04.12: To beat the band
- 2008.04.12: Denying future allies sufficient access to modeled behavior
- 2008.04.11: The fanciest high-tech stage I've ever worked
- 2008.04.11: Global fund now seen as competitive offering
- 2008.04.11: Sachs' "Common Wealth"
- 2008.04.10: Tom around the web [Updated and corrected]
- 2008.04.10: Special day with special operators [Corrected]
- 2008.04.10: No surprise
- 2008.04.10: Core/Gap video
- 2008.04.09: Chapter 11, one more brick in the wall
- 2008.04.09: New article on China
- 2008.04.09: There is no reason why Zimbabwe should be so screwed up
- 2008.04.09: This unfolds with real speed
- 2008.04.08: Recasting Chapter 11 somewhat
- 2008.04.08: Worth perusing as insight into Obama thinking
- 2008.04.08: Nice compilation of ideas people have been making for years
- 2008.04.07: Honestly . . .
- 2008.04.07: Chapter 11, extended as predicted
- 2008.04.07: The Gore counter-narrative kicks it up a gear
- 2008.04.07: God I miss the Sovs!
- 2008.04.06: Chapter 11, deeper in
- 2008.04.06: This week's column
- 2008.04.05: Chapter 11, the last of the realignment chapters, is begun
- 2008.04.05: Tom's recent pix
- 2008.04.05: Arming a cauldron
- 2008.04.05: Pick your fights with Russia
- 2008.04.04: How long until Iraqi peacekeepers?
- 2008.04.04: Man's gotta know his history
- 2008.04.03: West Point
- 2008.04.03: Perfectly fine comeback
- 2008.04.03: Brain-dead strategizing at its best
- 2008.04.02: Talk at Middlebury
- 2008.04.02: Proof!
- 2008.04.02: We need a listener and an articulator
- 2008.04.02: Iran's veto wielded
- 2008.04.01: Tom around the web
- 2008.04.01: Very nice time at Amherst
- 2008.04.01: Perhaps we finally stop sacrificing U.S. troops on the altar of Iran's nuclear program
- 2008.04.01: The subhead on this rings in with a "duh!"
- 2008.03.31: The immaculate snapshot
- 2008.03.31: Next iteration reality check
- 2008.03.31: Give a dictator enough rope!
- 2008.03.30: Tom's speaking in Mass.
- 2008.03.30: This week's column
- 2008.03.29: Chapter 10 in the box
- 2008.03.29: 50 constant experiments
- 2008.03.29: Iraq is to moose hunting as...
- 2008.03.28: Thickening and thinning
- 2008.03.28: The dance with Pakistan
- 2008.03.28: Function in search of real force
- 2008.03.27: A most disciplined day of writing
- 2008.03.27: The great man speaks!
- 2008.03.27: Nice moves
- 2008.03.26: Chapter 10 begun
- 2008.03.26: Long War, soft power
- 2008.03.26: Send her victorious...
- 2008.03.25: Tom around the web
- 2008.03.25: Obama outlook
- 2008.03.25: Imagine a beautiful relationship with Russia
- 2008.03.24: Chapter Nine finished
- 2008.03.24: Want democracy in the ME? Embrace Shia
- 2008.03.24: Fascinating to watch a military start-up
- 2008.03.23: This week's column
- 2008.03.22: Chapter 9 almost finished
- 2008.03.22: No need to sway on global warming
- 2008.03.22: And so it begins ...
- 2008.03.22: It's a start
- 2008.03.21: Chapter 9, air conditioned
- 2008.03.21: Springsteen show
- 2008.03.21: Salutations from Australia
- 2008.03.21: Global warming and food
- 2008.03.20: Chapter 9 started
- 2008.03.20: Deny them an enemy
- 2008.03.20: Naval SysAdmin
- 2008.03.19: Iraq success: happy confluence
- 2008.03.19: Always lovely to see
- 2008.03.18: Chapter 8 finished
- 2008.03.18: Tom around the web: Esquire Fallon article edition
- 2008.03.18: Maddening Blackwater article
- 2008.03.18: We all gotta start somewhere
- 2008.03.17: Tom around the web
- 2008.03.17: Chapter 8 mostly done
- 2008.03.17: Break it down: Map adjunct
- 2008.03.17: Worth reading
- 2008.03.16: This week's column
- 2008.03.15: Track Tom's book progress
- 2008.03.15: We've got a lot of nerve
- 2008.03.15: Handicapping McCain
- 2008.03.14: Final reflections on the Fallon article in Esquire
- 2008.03.14: From a Soldier in Iraq
- 2008.03.14: China's sexual revolution
- 2008.03.13: Chapter 7 done and in the box
- 2008.03.13: More evidence that State will never become a Department of Everything Else
- 2008.03.13: Ah, I guess networking does help in COIN!
- 2008.03.12: Gave one interview, deeper into Chapter 7
- 2008.03.12: Surge timing
- 2008.03.12: Good example of what I've been saying on Africa
- 2008.03.12: Email exchange
- 2008.03.12: Blast those cell phones!
- 2008.03.11: Turkey already signaling a certain willingness to connect the Kurds in Iraq
- 2008.03.11: New Robb on an old trick
- 2008.03.11: Deeper still into Chapter 7
- 2008.03.11: Fallon's resignation
- 2008.03.11: Fallon Trip Posts - Days One and Two
- 2008.03.11: BFA being translated into Chinese
- 2008.03.10: Deep into Chapter Seven (Economic Realignment)
- 2008.03.10: Fallon trip posts - Background
- 2008.03.10: Turn the page, baby!
- 2008.03.09: I stuck in my thumb, and pulled out a short introduction to Part III
- 2008.03.09: This week's column
- 2008.03.08: 'Children of Men' in Israel
- 2008.03.08: Cuba and China
- 2008.03.07: I'm just saying ...
- 2008.03.07: Isn't it weird ....?
- 2008.03.07: Andrew Jackson's "external improvements"
- 2008.03.07: International standards with no international = bupkes
- 2008.03.07: A reasonable take on the Fallon piece by--of all people--Gareth Porter
- 2008.03.07: AFRICOM promotes 'active security'
- 2008.03.07: Putin will fade
- 2008.03.06: What is the middle class ideology of globalization?
- 2008.03.06: My mistake on offering criticism of COIN piece
- 2008.03.06: Think Progress on the Fallon piece
- 2008.03.06: The key quote in the Adm. Fallon piece
- 2008.03.06: Chapter 6 and Part II are now in the box
- 2008.03.06: Ricks' attempted 'takedown' of Esquire piece
- 2008.03.06: Tom's latest article for Esquire
- 2008.03.06: Tom's article mentioned at the White House yesterday
- 2008.03.05: PNM mentioned in the HASC
- 2008.03.05: The ultimate legacy of Bush's "big bang" strategy
- 2008.03.05: Yet another important voice speaks to the Nixon-goes-to-Tehran concept
- 2008.03.05: This sort of ambition shouldn't scare us
- 2008.03.05: Enterra strikes again
- 2008.03.04: Done for today
- 2008.03.04: Oops! Day just got tougher!
- 2008.03.04: Oh crappy day
- 2008.03.04: Q&A: Obama
- 2008.03.04: Bets down
- 2008.03.04: Disconnectedness defines danger in Egypt
- 2008.03.04: In my endless fascination with New Core similarities to the U.S. ...
- 2008.03.03: The next chapter planned
- 2008.03.03: My Grendel is dead!
- 2008.03.03: Who's afraid of Vladimir Putin?
- 2008.03.03: CRC a step forward (but in the wrong department)
- 2008.03.03: Better job of commenting on the manual than I offered
- 2008.03.02: Still chugging, but oh so close on 5
- 2008.03.02: This week's column
- 2008.03.01: A quick 2k to end the WWI-WWII section
- 2008.03.01: Weird, weak argument for trying to militarize the climate change debate
- 2008.03.01: Global COIN: also not the answer
- 2008.02.29: Achieving the near brain-dead experience
- 2008.02.29: No buzzword concept is the answer to everything
- 2008.02.29: Walk softly...
- 2008.02.29: Pakistan perspective
- 2008.02.29: Confront China (quietly)
- 2008.02.28: Same old in Iran
- 2008.02.28: Nice sign of learning
- 2008.02.28: Earmarks aren't totally evil
- 2008.02.28: Beautiful Khanna review
- 2008.02.27: Upcoming ...
- 2008.02.27: State's so broken, they don't think they're broken
- 2008.02.27: If you're going to kick down the door...
- 2008.02.27: Why not take the educational "mountain" to Mohammed?
- 2008.02.27: We need a definition of grand strategy
- 2008.02.26: Quickie in PHX
- 2008.02.26: No global answers until a truly global economy emerges
- 2008.02.26: Worry about the Old Core
- 2008.02.26: Worried about Chinese hackers?
- 2008.02.26: The outsourcing of computers
- 2008.02.25: Tom around the web
- 2008.02.25: Feeling five-by-five
- 2008.02.25: Depressing but accurate piece on Mideast
- 2008.02.25: ICC's chocolate, our peanut butter . . .
- 2008.02.25: The cowboys have landed
- 2008.02.24: Joy and suffering
- 2008.02.24: This week's column
- 2008.02.23: Chapter 5 still . . . working
- 2008.02.23: Some new meta-analysis from New Core China
- 2008.02.23: The future of SysAdmin security
- 2008.02.22: Chapter 5 in works
- 2008.02.22: Turkey finally engages in its bloody nose strike
- 2008.02.22: Rising China's currency
- 2008.02.22: Help Pak build SysAdmin
- 2008.02.22: The one real danger of the subprime...
- 2008.02.22: A global carbon tax—the price must be right
- 2008.02.21: America's "dangerous display of space warfare"! (quotes made up!)
- 2008.02.21: Better ground for a stupid conflict with China
- 2008.02.21: Chen had his chance
- 2008.02.21: The Bush doctrines (press "5" for worldwide democracy)
- 2008.02.21: Palmisano's IBM is global, in an Old-New Core sense
- 2008.02.20: Great new hire for Enterra
- 2008.02.20: Sequencing the Axis
- 2008.02.20: COIN needs DoEE
- 2008.02.20: The New Core births the new multinationals
- 2008.02.20: "Soft Islam" is good enough
- 2008.02.19: Good definition of Gap status
- 2008.02.19: Start the clock on Cuba
- 2008.02.19: Bang Congo's drum slowly
- 2008.02.19: Tough row, but rich hoe
- 2008.02.19: Food, the new oil
- 2008.02.19: European economics
- 2008.02.18: 4 done, 10 to go
- 2008.02.18: The grass is getting taller in China
- 2008.02.18: The Chinese went back to college . . . in 1977
- 2008.02.18: Harnessing the Shiia revival
- 2008.02.18: Warfare now is both asymmetrical and asynchronous
- 2008.02.17: This week's column
- 2008.02.16: Back in the saddle ...
- 2008.02.16: Remembering my own doubts on NCW
- 2008.02.16: The future of cost overruns in the Army
- 2008.02.16: The big drink in California
- 2008.02.15: America the cheap
- 2008.02.15: The end of 'we're not political'
- 2008.02.15: Kurdish success, Arabian anger
- 2008.02.14: Yuan diplomacy work the bottom of the pyramid
- 2008.02.14: Lee Kuan Putin picks his man
- 2008.02.14: The future of potentially bad bio-tech
- 2008.02.14: We need the DoEE
- 2008.02.13: Heightened immigration is a global phenomenon
- 2008.02.13: New Core problems, rules
- 2008.02.13: China's demands begin to equal our own
- 2008.02.12: I'm feeling about as low as one can in this cruel world ...
- 2008.02.12: Tom around the web
- 2008.02.12: Grab your honey...
- 2008.02.12: China keeps on truckin'
- 2008.02.12: Spreading the China dam model
- 2008.02.12: Best on Iran
- 2008.02.11: Better to invest money in ag than big infrastructure
- 2008.02.11: To go Core is to value daughters
- 2008.02.11: Finally read the FP article on conflict and climate change
- 2008.02.11: Gates on the second half
- 2008.02.10: This week's column
- 2008.02.09: Finished Part One of Four
- 2008.02.09: Tom in NoVa (with Alphachimp)
- 2008.02.08: Another brick in the wall
- 2008.02.08: The power of individuals
- 2008.02.08: The boomer towns of tomorrow
- 2008.02.08: Little brother surveillance
- 2008.02.08: This fight is far from over
- 2008.02.07: Back where we started the GWOT
- 2008.02.07: When the statist firms enter retail, their sovereign insulation fades
- 2008.02.07: Everything you need to know on the future of the car industry
- 2008.02.07: Japan gets more American, around the edges
- 2008.02.06: Understanding why our opponent can't win helps us avoid losses
- 2008.02.06: Get yer Tatas out!
- 2008.02.06: Citizen in Peace – Soldier in War
- 2008.02.06: Is Army too COIN now?
- 2008.02.05: Description of the work, service in a tough spot
- 2008.02.05: Global warming gets more real, and more marketable
- 2008.02.05: The question of integration
- 2008.02.05: Bono, meet Gates
- 2008.02.04: Tom around the web
- 2008.02.04: Tom's Cairo pix
- 2008.02.04: Perhaps my favorite statue in DC
- 2008.02.04: Why is Europe so antagonistic on capitalism?
- 2008.02.03: This week's column
- 2008.02.02: Bush seems ready to deal with everybody, even Iran—so far as Iraq is concerned
- 2008.02.02: Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map!
- 2008.02.01: China's ambition on hybrids is real
- 2008.02.01: The most unschooled religious generation keeps getting more religious
- 2008.01.31: On the primaries ...
- 2008.01.31: Getting better all the time . . .
- 2008.01.31: The young and the restless and the right kind of caliphate
- 2008.01.31: The Millennials getting political
- 2008.01.30: I've started writing the book
- 2008.01.30: Mideast money on the table
- 2008.01.30: The Leavenworth Brief
- 2008.01.30: Fine for USAF to chime in on COIN
- 2008.01.29: Expensive strategic stalemate
- 2008.01.29: The Institute for Defense & Business
- 2008.01.29: Enterra COO
- 2008.01.28: Tom around the web
- 2008.01.28: Better post on subs
- 2008.01.28: Not gonna do it
- 2008.01.28: We all knew this day was coming
- 2008.01.28: Give it up to Gates again
- 2008.01.28: How the NIE changed the discussion
- 2008.01.27: This week's column
- 2008.01.26: Still sorting ...
- 2008.01.26: Another call from Europe for a SysAdmin function
- 2008.01.25: Got an education yesterday in Oak Ridge
- 2008.01.25: We need serious SysAdmin alliances
- 2008.01.25: Another sensible take on Iraqi federalism
- 2008.01.25: Get used to the congregation preaching back
- 2008.01.24: Good to be me
- 2008.01.24: Speaking to the Big Red One
- 2008.01.24: Nice piece on Jim Hart
- 2008.01.24: They don't speak for us
- 2008.01.24: Last new book for now...
- 2008.01.23: The great sorting on the book
- 2008.01.23: Speaking at the 27th tactics symposium of the Advanced Aircraft Tactics Training Center
- 2008.01.23: Two more books
- 2008.01.23: Four to go
- 2008.01.23: The impact of Gates
- 2008.01.22: Enterra in Kurdistan
- 2008.01.22: I felt the "Love"
- 2008.01.22: The conversion proceeds
- 2008.01.22: Just plain dumb
- 2008.01.22: Huge internal struggle against attacking Iran
- 2008.01.22: Truth on subs
- 2008.01.21: Tom around the web
- 2008.01.21: Follow the money
- 2008.01.21: Nice to have two actual races
- 2008.01.21: Another another book post
- 2008.01.21: Another book post
- 2008.01.20: Not meant to be
- 2008.01.20: This week's column
- 2008.01.19: Another books post
- 2008.01.19: A nice analytic approach ...
- 2008.01.19: Federalism helps the poor
- 2008.01.18: ... From the Sea coming home
- 2008.01.18: More books
- 2008.01.18: Iranian suspicions
- 2008.01.18: Predictions coming true
- 2008.01.18: Some profound new connectivity ...
- 2008.01.17: Balancing the good, the bad, and the ugly with Bush
- 2008.01.17: Be careful what you wish for in cracking down on immigration
- 2008.01.17: A show of farce in the Gulf
- 2008.01.17: I had a dream
- 2008.01.17: Enterra in Iraq
- 2008.01.16: Q&A: McCain?
- 2008.01.16: Flunk the SysAdmin, lose the Leviathan
- 2008.01.16: Classic problem for a classically fake state
- 2008.01.16: I told you they were planning big-time for the endgame
- 2008.01.16: Now the Chinese can fight back
- 2008.01.15: Really tired of dynasties
- 2008.01.15: The straight dope on Kurdistan
- 2008.01.15: Interesting map
- 2008.01.15: Re-balancing the Sunni-Shia mix in Iraq
- 2008.01.15: Recent books
- 2008.01.14: Tom around the web
- 2008.01.14: The Pack is back . . . home!
- 2008.01.14: Nice piece by Diamond on consumption rates
- 2008.01.14: PDVSA now in food shipping business, thanks to Chavez
- 2008.01.14: An interesting non-offer
- 2008.01.13: This week's column
- 2008.01.12: Saw "Charlie Wilson's War" ...
- 2008.01.12: Showing what we're about with microloans
- 2008.01.11: Need some help
- 2008.01.11: Palestine in Israel (and America down south)
- 2008.01.11: Brezhnevian Iran
- 2008.01.11: Lame dynasties (and Boomers)
- 2008.01.10: More strategizing
- 2008.01.10: China: neither too much, nor too little
- 2008.01.10: Will we pose the right questions next time?
- 2008.01.10: Who's gonna' take care of you?
- 2008.01.09: Day of strategizing
- 2008.01.09: Maybe the mullahs aren't so crazy
- 2008.01.09: Pessimistic and optimistic
- 2008.01.08: Gates has the right view
- 2008.01.08: Tom in AW&ST
- 2008.01.08: Back in DC
- 2008.01.07: Tom around the web
- 2008.01.07: The Saudi pardon of the rape victim ...
- 2008.01.07: The difference at WDW
- 2008.01.07: Middle East's youth have upside, too
- 2008.01.06: This week's column
- 2008.01.05: Another day at Disney
- 2008.01.05: Fighting comment spam
- 2008.01.05: A painful condemnation of the Bush Administration's failure to adjust to the insurgency in Iraq
- 2008.01.05: Our goose, China's gander
- 2008.01.04: The Iowa result
- 2008.01.04: Spaceship Earth
- 2008.01.04: Hello from Tom at Mission: SPACE
- 2008.01.03: The rule-setter on remittances
- 2008.01.03: Tom around the web: addendum
- 2008.01.03: Waterboarding in the age of TR
- 2008.01.03: Kurdistan: Told you
- 2008.01.03: Same threats, different vision
- 2008.01.03: Korea: Core and Gap
- 2008.01.02: The GMO brings eternally "new" Core U.S. in line with New Core pillars
- 2008.01.02: Two new book lists and FAQs
- 2008.01.02: Tom around the web: caught up
- 2008.01.02: Food and fuel logic
- 2008.01.02: Be all that you can be, in the PLA
- 2008.01.01: Tom around the web: books and Bhutto
- 2007.12.31: At "Prime Time Diner" at MGM Sudio/WDW
- 2007.12.31: Happy New Year!
- 2007.12.31: Tom around the web
- 2007.12.30: This week's column
- 2007.12.29: India follows China's adoption lead
- 2007.12.28: Luce's "In Spite of the Gods"...
- 2007.12.28: Possibly the best single article I have ever read on Russia
- 2007.12.27: More and more books
- 2007.12.27: This week's column
- 2007.12.27: Bhutto's assassination
- 2007.12.27: Postwar Iraq and our Great Depression
- 2007.12.27: Reminding us of where the radical Salafi jihadists will naturally head over time ...
- 2007.12.26: Chinese pre-New Year's
- 2007.12.26: Islamic finance takes off
- 2007.12.25: Globalization transforms Indian society
- 2007.12.24: Four more books
- 2007.12.24: Two more reasons why the “55th State” is more possible than thought
- 2007.12.23: More books
- 2007.12.23: This week's column
- 2007.12.22: The NYC commute
- 2007.12.22: If I can make it in Shanghai, I’ll make it anywhere!
- 2007.12.21: Blowing through books
- 2007.12.21: Two interviews
- 2007.12.21: Obama is right, and so are Iranians
- 2007.12.21: Furreigners not welcome!
- 2007.12.21: Why a cleaner China is likely a more centralized China
- 2007.12.21: Israel’s future isn’t South Africa, its denouement is South Africa
- 2007.12.21: MTV faces real competition in the Middle East
- 2007.12.20: Tom has a new piece up for the Guardian
- 2007.12.20: Putin is Time's Man of the Year
- 2007.12.20: Know your supply chain
- 2007.12.20: Keeping up with the Wangs
- 2007.12.20: Here come the Big Boxes, the verrry verrry baaad Big Boxes!
- 2007.12.20: One cellphone per consumer
- 2007.12.20: McCaffrey is great
- 2007.12.19: Time with MARSOC
- 2007.12.19: China pics
- 2007.12.19: Stories attached to column on innovation in Asia
- 2007.12.19: Seeing different worlds
- 2007.12.19: Story attached to past column on global dairy production
- 2007.12.19: Gates' strategy emerges
- 2007.12.18: We will eventually deal on Iran
- 2007.12.18: Counterposition on CNA report
- 2007.12.18: Why the NIE on Iran isn't political
- 2007.12.18: