1994 Series 1 Number 10 Page 26
In 1994, Brigadier General WR Dobson reported on Air Command’s (Canadian Air Force) project to assess the implications of major international and national trends that might influence the composition and structure of the Canadian Aerospace Forces in 2020 and beyond. It was not the intention to advocate change, merely report the trends of future change as determined from extensive research of material available at that time.
Although change may be perceived as threatening, documenting the trends of change may provide opportunities to influence the evolution of change proactively.
The report described a class of national and international problems not previously experienced by conventional political entities. Western industrialized nations have traditionally exercised forms of economic, political, and military power that were not designed to contend with the rate or magnitude of behavioural change that seemed to be occurring as the world transitioned from the industrial age to the information age.
Major areas examined included demographics and human resources, climate, environment, technology, economics, society and politics, international and military affairs.
Inter alia, major effects from climate change were foreseen after 2020, and it was predicted that the very necessary reorganization of society to a “we’re all in this together” approach to living less destructively would require tremendous political will.
Link to | Overview: Project 2020.
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