Here is the 7th Edition of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) Global Trends 2040 Report: A More Contested World. This edition was first published in March 2021on the DNI website and has been published every four years since 1997.
Global Trends assess the key trends and uncertainties that will shape the Strategic environment for the United States during the next two decades.
Global Trends is designed to provide an analytic framework for policymakers early in each administration as they craft national security strategy and navigate an uncertain future. The goal is not to offer a specific prediction of the world in 2040; instead, the intent is to help policymakers and citizens see what may lie beyond the horizon and prepare for an array of possible futures.
5 Themes Appear Throughout This Report and Underpin This Overall Thesis:
- Global Challenges
- Fragmentation
- Disequilibrium
- Contestation
- Adaptation
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Length: 156 Pages
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“Intelligence does not claim infallibility for its prophecies. Intelligence merely holds that the answer which it gives is the most deeply and objectively based and carefully considered estimate.”
– Sherman Kent, Founder of the Office of National Estimates
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