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September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

417. Forging the Future to Find the Next Great Disruptor

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring a provocative conversation with Amy Webb, futurist, … Read the rest

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022

416. China’s Economic Ascendency through 2040

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes back returning blogger Kate Kilgore with today’s post addressing a key, but heretofore neglected (at least within these pages!) … Read the rest

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

415. Turkey and the TB-2: A Rising Drone Superpower

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Karen Kaya — Senior Turkey/Middle East Analyst for … Read the rest

September 1, 2022August 31, 2022

414. It’s All In Your Head: How The Brain Makes Better Soldiers

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Zach Schonbrun, author of The Performance Cortex: … Read the rest

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

413. The Resurgent Scourge of Chemical Weapons

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes back returning guest blogger Ian Sullivan with today’s guest post, addressing the recent resurgence in the use of chemical … 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”