Summary of student scenarios: 2020 Vision project, fiscal year 1997

摘要

The Strategic Issues Thinking: 2020 Vision project introduces students and teaches to national security issues through the techniques of scenario building, and engages them in an interactive process of creating scenarios relevant to the Department of Energy, Defense Programs (DOE/DP). Starting with the world as it is today, teams of students develop a series of scenarios on international developments over the next 25 years under various circumstances. This report identifies recurrent themes in the student's scenarios, lists creative ways the students presented their scenarios, compares and contrasts the program's FY97 results with FY96 results, identifies the benefits of the program, and offers a glimpse of Sandia's future plans for the 2020 Vision project.