March, 2021 | Mad Scientist Laboratory

March 11, 2021March 9, 2021

311. Achieving an AI-era Workforce by 2025: A Modern, Scalable Approach to Retooling the United States (and its Army!)

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger Ted Hallum, Senior Defense Machine Learning Engineer, oLabs’ AI Center of Excellence, Octo, with today’s post proposing a scalable solution to the World Economic Forum‘s … Read the rest

March 8, 2021March 5, 2021

310. Learning about the Future through Podcasts

[Editor’s Note: In a previous episode of Mad Scientist’s The Convergence podcast, LTC Joe Byerly observed that “in order to understand the possibilities of the future, you have to connect disparate things and bring them together. Reading broadly … Read the rest

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021

309. The Convergence: The Future of Ground Warfare with COL Scott Shaw

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of “The Convergence” podcast, featuring COL Scott Shaw, Commander, U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, discussing the future of ground warfare, including lessons learned from the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict … Read the rest

March 1, 2021February 26, 2021

308. Competition and Conflict in the Next Decade

[Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army’s Mad Scientist Initiative launched its Are We Doing Enough, Fast Enough? series of monthly virtual events in January to explore our adversaries’ views on Competition, Crisis, Conflict, and Change. Last Tuesday, 23 February 2021, … Read the rest

HOT!!!

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 new The 2 + 3 Threat video addressing the near-term OE (i.e., 2020 to 2028)!

Watch the new TRADOC 2028 video [via a non-DoD network]!

“THE CONVERGENCE” — Army Mad Scientist Podcasts

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, Senior Director, Zignal Labs, 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”