Mr. Barnett gave a PowerPoint presentation on national security strategy and military transformation to officers and analysts at the National Defense University. He talked about the changing nature of warfare in the post-Cold War era, the impact of globalization on security threats and potential responses, future military force structures and strategies, as well as current threats from various regions of the world. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience. The speech was the most recent version of his presentation given on June 2, 2004, and December 6, 2004 that had previously aired on C-SPAN. Thomas P.M. Barnett was a senior strategic researcher at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and a former strategist in the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation. He was also the author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century and Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating, both published by Putnam Publishing Group.