{"id":44434,"date":"2014-07-01T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d2b676c9b8c30d60cefaa781d9bc50c8"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:45:38","slug":"news-story-mod-identifies-future-strategic-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44434","title":{"rendered":"News story: MOD identifies future strategic trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This latest publication is the 5th edition of Global Strategic Trends (<abbr title=\"Global Strategic Trends\">GST<\/abbr>). It examines a 30-year outlook of a broad range of regional and thematic trends including the environment, health, education, automation, information, identity and transport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/global-strategic-trends-out-to-2045\">Global Strategic Trends out to 2045<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/development-concepts-and-doctrine-centre\">Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre\">DCDC<\/abbr>) consulted widely with experts, academics, other government departments, and with countries and institutions from around the world to develop a comprehensive analysis of the future.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lightning II jets inside HMS Queen Elizabeth's hangar\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/28055\/45157043.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>An artist&#8217;s impression of F-35B Lightning II jets inside the future HMS Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s hangar (computer-generated image) [Picture: Copyright BVT Surface Fleet]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minister for International Security Strategy, Dr Andrew Murrison, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Global Strategic Trends is a key element in setting the Ministry of Defence\u2019s context for long-term decision-making. Past editions of <abbr title=\"Global Strategic Trends\">GST<\/abbr> have been used to inform our national security strategy, and this fifth edition highlights further key themes that will shape our thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our world will significantly change over the next 30 years, and all of us will feel it. It will be a time of continuing transition, characterised by uncertainty, challenge and complexity. <abbr title=\"Global Strategic Trends\">GST<\/abbr> maps this and is well worth studying closely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C1Fv9cRMaJQ\">VIDEO: Global Strategic Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global Strategic Trends forms part of the <abbr title=\"Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre\">DCDC<\/abbr>\u2019s strategic trends programme, which began in 2001. This edition considers the strategic context out to 2045, highlighting a number of global defence and security implications for use by policy and decision makers not just in defence, but across government. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defence Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre has set out what the world might look like 30 years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}