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Preface: The shape of things to come -- The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney -- A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy -- The American trajectory : of great men and great powers -- The economic realignment : racing to the bottom of the pyramid -- The diplomatic realignment : rebranding the team of rivals -- The security realignment : rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and development -- The network realignment : the rise of the sysadmin-industrial complex -- The strategic realignment : resurrecting the progressive agenda -- Coda: Future perfect tense.

The Pentagon, as former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates derisively pointed out, has a bad case of "next-war-itis." With Iraq now ancient history and Afghanistan winding down, all four of the major US military services today prefer to imagine distant, future, high-tech shoot-'em-ups against China over dealing with the world as people find it, which is still full of those nasty little wars. While the Navy and Air Force have been fighting harder for longer because they've gotten the short end of the stick for the last decade, the Army and Marine Corps are now running hard from the long war too, looking to make sure they don't get discarded like Iraq and Afghanistan. After years of acting like it was on top of everything, the US military is back in Chicken Little mode and, man, is that sky ever fallin'. Adapted from the source document.

"In America's New Map: Restoring Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse, Thomas P.M. Barnett, bestselling author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century and acclaimed geo-strategist, offers seven throughlines to frame and redefine the ambitions and posture of these United States, setting our Union on a bold-but-entirely-familiar national trajectory."

This title combines original research, case studies, and critical analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. It is divided into two sections; the first section discusses immigration and the borderlands while the second section covers topics such as the resilient citizen, lessons learned from the pandemic, and disaster recovery.