National Intelligence Council Releases Global Trends 2025 Report

The National Intelligence Council, which reports to the Director of National Intelligence, has released as report called Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World which contains the best guess of what the world 17 years hence will be like.

Some of the conclusions to the National Intelligence Council's Global 2025 report are:

"The whole international system—as constructed following WWII—will be revolutionized. Not only will new players—Brazil, Russia, India and China— have a seat at the international high table, they will bring new stakes and rules of the game.

"The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future.

"Unprecedented economic growth, coupled with 1.5 billion more people, will put pressure on resources—particularly energy, food, and water—raising the specter of scarcities emerging as demand outstrips supply.

"The potential for conflict will increase owing partly to political turbulence in parts of the greater Middle East."

Some news organizations have trumpeted with Global Trends 2025 report, with perhaps some unbecoming glee, as trumpeting the "decline of American power", something which it does not do. It rather suggests that while the United States will remain the "preeminent" super power, it will be challenged for that role by China and India. In short, the world of 2025, at least in the area of super power conflict, will look kind of like the world from 1960-89 when the United States, the Soviet Union, and China vied for dominance. That's not exactly a declinist view.



Source: associatedcontent.com