U.S. intelligence agencies will no longer produce the Global Trends report — a once-perennial assessment of looming global threats — after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard shut down the office responsible for it, The New York Times reported Friday.
For more than two decades, Global Trends offered a long-range view of potential challenges, from climate change and migration to pandemics, often years before they materialized. Past editions correctly anticipated issues such as worldwide health crises and shifts in immigration patterns.
But Gabbard’s office announced it was eliminating the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group, which produced the report, saying the draft 2025 version “violated professional analytic tradecraft standards” and sought to “propagate a political agenda that ran counter to all of the current president’s national security priorities,” according to the Times.
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