Discusses the challenges that the United States faces in dealing with multiple-agent dynamic complex systems problems, and producing analysts capable of conducting emerging international futures forecasting. The U.S. effort toward producing integrated security solutions, including integrated and holistic assessments of international environments and thus of emerging futures forecasting, rests upon having effective basic and intermediary holistic education and training programs that we do not now have. The author asserts that all major classic learning and analysis traditions have enfolded a holistic complex systems view of human affairs and of emerging trends forecasting involving them, wherein broad learning was a preamble to success. This is the necessary teaching and learning path for producing analysts capable of doing emerging international future's forecasting. The author highlights the following advanced analytical concepts that need to be taught to and used by future analysts: "Layering the Onion", Path Development and Harmonics, Streaming and Emergence, Perturbations and Multi Systems Bias Responses.

Introduction -- Wherein lies our best opportunity for advancement in emerging futures forecasting -- Of mindset and forecasting practice -- Of futures forecasting: learning to stand, walk, and run -- What is the justification for such an investment? -- Where are we going in this discussion? -- Considerations for teaching the futures forecasting art -- Layering the onion: building cross cultural, multidisciplinary, historical, and comparative competence -- Interpenetration: understanding relationship patterns and their supports/weaknesses -- Folding in -- Learning to see solution patterns -- A transnational overview of path development and harmonic issues under conditions of complexity: how change happens within variously interpenetrated complex systems -- The logic of comparative social inquiry: using most-similar and most-different systems comparison -- Teaching appropriate iteration -- Historical complex system's dynamics leading to knowledge of variously interpenetrated developmental dynamics -- Confronting the great divide: on teaching embeddedness and emergency for forecasting change -- Learning animation and dynamic path formation -- Applying dynamic animation -- Learning synchrony and harmonic path dynamics -- Using dynamic harmonic perturbations for emerging change forecasting, and other advanced applications.