US Strategic Foresight Erodes Amid Bureaucratic Downgrades

The United States is quietly dismantling its capacity for long-term strategic planning, one cut at a time. Key institutions have faced severe downgrades, weakening the ability to think beyond short-term political cycles. The Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, once a cornerstone of comparative military foresight since the Cold War, was temporarily disbanded last year before being reinstated in a diminished state. Similar disruptions echo across the national security landscape, with deep staffin