Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

Thomas P.M. Barnett
American Businessman
Born: 1962
America Every People Power World You
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The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Morning Every Marines Dig Something Like Terrier West Up Get Want Hole
If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in. Thomas P.M. Barnett
You People Out Ideas Attract Execution Get Front Your Who Need Pulled
Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Strong Will Men Field Those Hormones Some Unrequited Vast Gladly Tens Tens Of Millions Force Forced Policy Around Female Wage Due Off Western Burn China Shortage Planet Created Wars Millions
The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Air Force Fears Own Military Every Dissemination Air Worse Miniature Rapid Would Unbelievable Rise Seemingly Wing Drones Primarily Terms Toys Force Passed Due Existential Than Where Far Navy Unit Now Recently
Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it's got all those A's lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for 'If the United States fights somebody, we're going to be huge. They're going to be small.' Thomas P.M. Barnett
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If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Man Money Every Addicted About Supplies Highly Known Foreign Foreign Oil America Commodity Just Oil Polluting China Then Coal Save
Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Government Obama Economy Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Bankrupt Barack Barack Obama Inherited
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Stronger Every President Our Neighbors Promising Only Ties Southern Office Them Ignore Largely
Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse. Thomas P.M. Barnett
You Matter Thought Nation Worldwide Our Worse Bad Administration Had Idea Most How How Far Gotten Fallen End American Little Bush Bush Administration Far Standing
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). Thomas P.M. Barnett
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I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Best Long Past Situation Complementary States Possess Neither Colonial Both Pursuing Argued Baggage Partnership Were Quite Africa Place China Interested Interests Strategic United United States Start
An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process. Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization. Thomas P.M. Barnett
Terrorism Globalization Movement Form Transnational Function Fundamentally
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line. Thomas P.M. Barnett
You People Finish Line Understanding Action Finish Line Customer Mile Her Actually Last Drag Dragging

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