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Mr. Richard Johnson and Col Joachim Isacsson of Defence Futures, UK MOD visited Joint Staff College to give a lecture about Global Strategic Trends (GST) for the students of Joint Advanced Course.

The followings are the explanation about GST-7 by Defence Futures.

The GST is a strategic foresight analysis program published every five years with aim of providing long-term strategic context for decision makers in the UK MOD and wider government, as well as for allies and partners of the UK. The outputs of this program are based on the premise that predicting the future is impossible. This publication therefore offers analysis, based on a range of strategic foresight tools, to help users minimize bias and reduce the likelihood of surprise or unwanted outcomes, while building preparedness and agility to meet alternative futures. This GST-7 is to analyze “Out to 2055” – offering analysis from a thematic and geographic perspective, presenting five scenarios which hypothetical pathways into a future world order, also identifying six global key drivers of change, and 22 underlying trends that can be observed today is available to public to foster discussion with other countries.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/global-strategic-trends-out-to-2055

In the Q & A session, they were gracious enough to answer many questions from our students and it became great opportunity for our future work. In addition, we exchanged the view about the possibility of Japan-UK research interaction.