. >> you mentioned greg martin's and three cups of tea and you were also referencing thomas barnett. who is he? >> thomas barnett in a lot of ways is the guide is best known for the briefing called the pentagon new map. in early 2000, he was the kind of guy that captured the zeitgeist of the department of defense and he had a couple of famous briefings, a powerpoint briefing he would deliver to the military audience which explained how the post-9/11 world shifted. but i went a little bit more into what he was sort of are doing. and part of what he was also getting at is that there needed to be something like a nation building a cadre available to address what he called the gap states, the feeling states. i think that he called at before some and his idea was you've got the army, the big forces that do regime change and the nations have called on to do so but they need people on call and they are a mix of diplomat aid worker boy scout u.s. marine, this kind of mishmash of different things but he was one of the early people articulated in a lot of ways and sort tried to explain what th