Look familiar? From the article: The future depicted in the National Intelligence Councils Global Trends 2015 report, published in December 2000, contains numerous contemporary echoes, as my colleagues at Defense One have pointed out. Theres financial volatility; anonymous cyberattacks; widening economic divisions; an increasingly assertive China; a WMD-wielding North Korea; growing illegal migration to the U.S. from Central America; a mercurial, authoritarian Russia that remains internally weak and institutionally linked to the international system primarily through its permanent seat on the UN Security Council; a Middle East tormented by demographic pressures, social unrest, religious and ideological extremism, and terrorism, and shaped by the destabilizing impact of new technology and the allure of political Islam.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:35:28 +0000
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