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Print this article When it comes to foreign policy, the United States is notoriously averse to long-term thinking. Particularly since the end of the Cold War, our strategic culture has tended to cycle through fads, in which the terms of reference change even as the underlying policies remain continuous. Partly as a corrective to this tendency, every four years, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases an unclassified report forecasting the future’s most significant geopol...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Russia has long struggled to overcome its inability to retain talent for homegrown innovation and R&D. As a result, Russia’s global activism leans heavily on tried-and-true tactics. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary How will the Kremlin’s tool kit evolve as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deepfake forgeries become more wi...

URL copied to clipboard In 1993, President Clinton’s newly appointed CIA director, James Woolsey, described the post-Cold War security environment and the collapse of the Soviet bloc as the United States slaying the dragon and being left in a jungle inhabited by poisonous snakes. Throughout the 1990s, the United States duly reconfigured its huge military power away from heavy armour, anti-submarine forces and other Cold War elements and towards expeditionary warfare, special forces, stand...

682 Global Trends-2040: The US and China will influence global dynamics, forcing other states to accept ‘starker choices’. Reuters Vappala Balachandran Former Special Secy, Cabinet Secretariat Global Trends-2040, released by the US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on April 8, is the seventh in the series starting with the first report in 1997 which was a 15-year global strategic security projection till 2010. In 1996, the US government asked its civilian intelligence and anal...

Climate change, technology, disease and financial crises will pose big challenges for the world, an intelligence report concludes.

Insight, however, no matter how good, is wasted when policymakers aren’t paying attention — a lesson that the Global Trends report makes painfully clear.

World will face "more intense and cascading global challenges" over next two decades, U.S. intelligence report warns By Olivia Gazis April 9, 2021 / 12:32 AM / CBS News More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of government and international organizations over the next two decades, according to a compreh...

Climate change, rich-poor gap, conflict likely to grow: US intelligence report Top Searches Climate change, rich-poor gap, conflict likely to grow: US intelligence report Reuters / Apr 9, 2021, 12:44 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail WASHINGTON: Disease, the rich-poor gap, climate change and conflicts within and among nations will pose greater challenges in coming decades, with the Covid-19 pandemic already worsening some of those problems, a US intelligence report said on Thursday. The rivalr...

  WASHINGTON -- Disease, the rich-poor gap, climate change and conflicts within and among nations will pose greater challenges in coming decades, with the COVID-19 pandemic already worsening some of those problems, a U.S. intelligence report said on Thursday. The rivalry between China and a U.S.-led coalition of Western nations likely will intensify, fueled by military power shifts, demographics, technology and "hardening divisions over governance models," said Global Trends 2040: A More Co...

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) on Thursday released the seventh edition of its quadrennial Global Trends report. Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World is an unclassified assessment of the forces and dynamics that the NIC anticipates are likely to shape the national security environment over the next twenty years. Global competition for influence will intensify. “During the next two decades, the intensity of competition for global influence is likely to reach its highest level s...