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Richard Lum
Mar 14, 20221 min read
Emerging Issues for 2022
With rapid changes occurring across the social, technical, and political landscapes, IW-focused organizations need analytic frameworks...
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Richard Lum
Mar 1, 20222 min read
Ukraine in a Futures Context
Conflict is becoming increasingly difficult to disentangle from daily life.
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Richard Lum
Jul 7, 20211 min read
Anticipating Future Disruptions
Part 3 of Vision Foresight Strategy's new video mini-series: Reframing the Future 2021. Anticipating Future Disruptions gives you tips...
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Richard Lum
Jun 14, 20215 min read
Defense Futures: Why All Our Scenarios Should be Disruptive
(note: this article was originally published in 2016) I am often struck by the fact that, from a futures perspective, many of the...
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Richard Lum
May 25, 20211 min read
4 Steps to the Future
Part 2 of Vision Foresight Strategy's mini-series: Reframing the Future 2021 4 Steps to the Future is a step-by-step approach to...
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Richard Lum
May 10, 20211 min read
What is Foresight?
First of Vision Foresight Strategy's mini-series: Reframing the Future 2021 A brief 4 minute video on what foresight is and how every...
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Richard Lum
Apr 22, 20211 min read
A Contest over Culture, and More.
For so many of these "competitions" - things like narrative, "AI", space - the future isn't going to be one-and-done.
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Richard Lum
Apr 13, 20211 min read
Citizens and Involuntary Militia
A recent post in Small Wars Journal provides another scan hit supporting the maturation of an emerging issue we worked up back in 2017,...
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Richard Lum
Feb 18, 20211 min read
3 Tips to Develop Foresight Skills
With uncertainty and volatility affecting every aspect of our lives and organizations, one of the critical leadership skills is to have...
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Richard Lum
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Being Proactive- How to Stop Putting out Fires
Does your morning routine consist primarily of putting out fires and reacting to events within your organization? Do external events...
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Richard Lum
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Renewed Trend in Businesses Relocation?
Does a renewed trend in businesses moving their operations contribute to the emerging issue of "Wavering Corporate Allegiance?"
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Richard Lum
Jan 8, 20211 min read
Is Your Knowledge Useful?
We have reading lists, newsletter subscriptions, data feeds and platforms streaming us premium content daily. Are you effectively...
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Richard Lum
Dec 23, 20201 min read
Best Military Advice- Time to start writing
The incoming Biden Administration is taking shape with old and new voices joining the national security conversation. The cycle is...
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Richard Lum
Dec 1, 20204 min read
Special Forces in the 21st Century
What should be Army Special Forces’ role in an era of great power competition, gray zone operations, and hybrid warfare?
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Richard Lum
Nov 16, 20205 min read
The Future is neither WWII nor the Cold War
There are better analogies than WWII or the Cold War for thinking about our competitive futures.
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Richard Lum
Nov 9, 20201 min read
Webinar Highlights - A Map with No Edges: Anticipating and Shaping the Future Operating Environments
You can now review highlights of the presentation and the Q&A at your convenience.
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Richard Lum
Nov 5, 20201 min read
A Map with No Edges
Dr. Lum's article, published today in the Small Wars Journal, emphasizes that "we need to define the range of future outcomes that...
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Richard Lum
Nov 3, 20201 min read
American Futures 2021: Brief #1
The American Futures 2021 project is a series of rapid forecasts to explore the continually shifting landscape of 2021.
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Richard Lum
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Webinar Highlights - Foresight for Thriving in an Age of Uncertainty
Thank you to all who attended the webinar! We especially appreciated the contributions to an active Q&A session.
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Richard Lum
Oct 28, 20201 min read
VFS Webinar- A Map With No Edges
A Map with No Edges: Anticipating and Shaping Future Operating Environments There is no single “future of conflict” that we can discern...
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