OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — After 9/11, the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) at CIA created a ‘Purple Cell’ that was given the mission of actually considering exterior the field. It was staffed by a handful of the DI’s finest analysts who have been tasked to transcend any reporting and assume via hypothetical conditions. The product was shared with the President and others, not as predictions, however as a strategy to stimulate their desirous about potential future developments. They have been nicely obtained.
This can be a Purple Cell-like product. The scenario: it’s 2041 and China is now the pre-eminent international energy having eclipsed america, and Beijing is busily re-ordering the worldwide “guidelines of the sport” established after WWII, to go well with its wants.
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