December, 2020 | Mad Scientist Laboratory

December 17, 2020December 15, 2020

293. The Convergence: Reading and Leading in the Future

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of “The Convergence” podcast, featuring LTC Joe Byerly discussing the vital convergence of reading and leading. Please note that this podcast and several of the embedded … Read the rest

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020

292. Twelve Days of Christmas: The Best of the Mad Scientist Laboratory

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to provide today’s post for your holiday reading pleasure. We have compiled, synopsized, and embedded links to twelve of our best posts from the past three years — please take some time … Read the rest

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

291. Joint Operating Environment 2040

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes back returning guest blogger and proclaimed Mad Scientist Jeff Becker with today’s post, exploring the Joint Operating Environment in 2040. Complementing our recent posts on the The Operational Environment: Now through 2028 and … Read the rest

December 7, 2020December 4, 2020

290. Character of Warfare 2035

[Editor’s Note: Today’s post provides fifteen insights about trends and technologies impacting the Future Operational Environment and the way the U.S. Army will compete and fight in 2035 and beyond. Gleaned from the “Character of Warfare 2035” … Read the rest

December 3, 2020December 2, 2020

289. The Convergence: Bringing AI to the Joint Force

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of “The Convergence” podcast, featuring three panelists from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) — Ms. Jacqueline Tame, Ms. Alka Patel, and Dr. Jane … Read the rest

HOT!!!

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

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”