Global Strategic Trends Programme

It is published by the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) which is under the UK's Strategic Command based in Shrivenham, Wiltshire.

[2] Comments included: Professor Peter Hennessy - "You have to have as a good a system for horizon scanning as you possibly can, with all the necessary caveats.

For example, we haven’t talked about it yet, but the one that I find the most helpful was an institutionalisation of something that was done in the last defence review, the DCDC people at Shrivenham, the “Shrivenham Scans” as I call them, I find them absolutely fascinating... ...they produced a very good one [scan], the bulk of which was made public in time for this review and, as far as I can see, it's having no salience at all in the way the SDSR is being cut—yet another example of an own goal and being less than the sum of our parts.

Professor Hew Strachan - "Strategic trends stress those things that are likely to happen to the world, but not much of what they do really focuses on what the United Kingdom is trying to do.

Recommendation in Written evidence submitted by Professor Julien Lindley-French - "Cross-government structures under the NSC/Cabinet Office should ideally include a Strategy Group made up of both officials and non-government experts to build on the Strategic Trends work of DCDC with a specific remit to establish likely forecasts and context for Intelligence and Planning."