Mad Scientist Laboratory

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022

426. Army Mad Scientist Writing Contest Fall-Winter 2022: Back to the Future

Crowdsourcing is an effective tool for harvesting ideas, thoughts, and concepts from a wide variety of interested individuals, helping to diversify thought and challenge conventional assumptions. … Read the rest

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022

425. Making Quick Decisions, Quicker!

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring our interview with proclaimed Mad Scientist Jason Sherwin… Read the rest

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

424. Unplanned Obsolescence

[Editor’s Note: One of the effective tools Army Mad Scientist employs to envision future Operational Environment possibilities are Edge Cases — examining what is at … Read the rest

November 3, 2022November 2, 2022

423. Special Conference Preview — Back to the Future: Using History to Forecast, 8-9 November 2022

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring our hosts Luke Shabro and Matt Santaspirt previewing … Read the rest

October 27, 2022October 26, 2022

422. Army Mad Scientist Conference — Back to the Future: Using History to Forecast, 8-9 November 2022

REGISTER NOW! Plan on joining Army Mad Scientist and the National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA) for our Back to the Future: Using History … Read the rest

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Explore the latest TRADOC G-2 OE content on the Operational Environment Enterprise

Download and check out The Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict

Learn more about how our Pacing Threat fights in ATP 7-100.3, Chinese Tactics

Check out OE Exploitable Conditions 2028 – Exploitable Conditions Framework — TRADOC G-2’s Global Cultural Knowledge Network has identified twelve conditions in the Operational Environment that actors could exploit when competing with the U.S. and its partners!

Click here to read the Army Future Command’s new AFC Pamphlet 525-2, Future Operational Environment: Forging the Future in an Uncertain World 2035-2050 addressing the mid- to far term OE and watch the associated video!

Watch the TRADOC G-2’s Threats to 2030 video addressing the challenges facing the U.S. Army in the current OE (i.e., now to 2030)

“THE CONVERGENCE” — Army Mad Scientist Podcasts

Former Undersecretary of the Navy James F. “Hondo” Geurts and Dr. Zachary S. Davis, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discuss Strategic Latency Unleashed: The Role of Technology in a Revisionist Global Order and the Implications for Special Operations Force and how to think radically about the future, capitalize on talent, and unleash technological convergences to out-compete our adversaries, and when necessary, defeat them decisively in conflict.

COL John Antal (USA-Ret.), author and innovator in the interactive gaming and learning industry, discusses the implications of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, the psychological effects of drone warfare, and the future of maneuver.

COL Scott Shaw, Commander, U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, discusses the future of ground warfare, including lessons learned from the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in 2020 and the realities of combat for tomorrow’s Soldiers.

Dr. David Kilcullen, bestselling author and expert on unconventional warfare, discusses how the U.S. Army must prepare to engage “Dragons” and “Snakes” as they employ Liminal Warfare and blended cyber-kinetic operations to avoid our conventional warfare dominance.

Mr. Doowan Lee, CEO and co-founder of VAST-OSINT, discusses disinformation, changes over time in approaches to information warfare, and collaboration between Russia and the Chinese Communist Party on information operations.

Click here to listen to other episodes of “The Convergence”