Introduction: Envisioning Future War; Strategic Insights, v. 10, Special issue (October 2011), 1-6. Topic: Global Trends and Future Warfare

Abstract

The workshop whose proceedings are presented here was convened to provide the National Intelligence Council (NIC) with insight into the way war in the intermediate future, meaning the next twenty years or so, is viewed from the perspective of America's allies, partners, and potential adversaries. The group took as its starting point two works by the NIC: Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, which seeks to identify emerging economic, social, geopolitical, and other forces that will shape the future security environment; and a more specialized study entitled Tomorrow's Security Challenges: The Defense Implications of Emerging Global Trends, which draws specific inferences from these trends with respect to defense organization, strategic planning, and the conduct of war.