A Better Crystal Ball

The Right Way to Think About the Future
Article/Op-Ed in Foreign Affairs
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Oct. 13, 2020

Peter Scoblic co-authored an article in Foreign Affairs about how to manage uncertainty in national security.

There is a better way, one that would allow the United States to make decisions based not on simplistic extrapolations of the past but on smart estimates of the future. It involves reconciling two approaches often seen to be at philosophical loggerheads: scenario planning and probabilistic forecasting.