OODAcon 2024: Navigating the Future – Strategic Insights from America’s New Map

Panel Description

In this session, geostrategist and author Thomas Barnett will provide a deep dive into the evolving geopolitical landscape based on his latest book, America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse. Barnett will offer key insights into the shifting global dynamics and their implications for leaders in business, technology, politics, and national security, emphasizing the strategies needed to navigate this complex future.

Thomas Barnett, Principal Business Strategist – Throughline, Inc.;  Partner  Barnett Consulting

After 9/11, Thomas joined Cebrowski’s new Office of Force Transformation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as his Assistant for Strategic Futures. In that capacity, he developed an influential brief on globalization and international security, which later morphed into a New York Times-bestselling book, The Pentagon’s New Map (2004). Thomas extended his “New Map” series with the volumes Blueprint for Action (2005) and Great Powers (2009).  

The New York Times-bestselling author and nationally known public speaker has been profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of globalization, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter. A prime example is his TED Talk, which has received over 1.3 million online views.

An award-winning professor, Dr. Barnett has written for Esquire, Foreign Policy, Wired, National Review, and the Washington Post and has been interviewed by Rolling Stone, Economist, Time, BBC World Service, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and many foreign media. U.S. News & World Report’s Michael Barone has described Thomas as “one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time.”

He worked for years as a journalist, both as a Contributing Editor at Esquire and as the author of a nationally syndicated print column for Scripps Howards News Service. Barnett served as a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee’s Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and as a visiting strategist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Thomas was likewise a Visiting Strategist at China’s first-ever government-approved NGO on national defense and international security – the Knowfar Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies.

By or Featuring Thomas Barnett

• America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse
• https://www.americasnewmap.com/about-thomas
• Substack 
• https://thomaspmbarnett.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasNewMap

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• The Future of Global Maritime Power: China’s Strategic Challenge to U.S. Dominance
• 10 Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Evolving Strategies and Regional Insights
• The Future of the Energy Sector and AI Data Centers
• The BRICS Plus Summit Pursues Bitcoin-based De-dollarization and Surpasses GDP of G7 Countries
• Opportunities for Advantage: Who Will Lead the World in Humanoid Robotics?
• A Record 27 Humanoid Robots Take Center Stage In Beijing
• How Do We Track Critical Technologies, Prioritize Challenging Missions, and Map Them Both to Real-World Innovation Efforts?

• The Trend Of Corporate Nuclear Continues: Amazon Embraces Small Modular Nuclear Reactors for Sustainability
• U.S. Competitive Advantage: Frontier Science Basic Research and Unlocking Vast Scientific Data Assets
• Rearming for the Future
• Convergence is AIxBio: AI and the Bioeconomy
• What You Need to Know About Protecting Cyber Infrastructure In The Age of Great Power Competition
• China’s Competitive Advantage in Material Science Basic Research and Strategic Chip Innovation
• Quantum-Safe Encryption: A Critical Frontier for U.S. National Security
• Is the United States Pushing China and Russia Tech Collaboration?

For further OODA Loop News Briefs and Original Analysis on this topic, go to this link. Also: Semiconductors.