July, 2021 | Mad Scientist Laboratory

July 26, 2021July 22, 2021

342. Our Arctic—The World’s Pink Flamingo and Black Swan Bird Sanctuary

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory regrets to inform our Community of Action of the passing of Mad Scientist Frank Prautzsch. Frank was a frequent and long-time contributor to the Army’s Mad Scientist Initiative, providing informative guest blog posts, … Read the rest

July 22, 2021July 21, 2021

341. Gamers Building the Future Force

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to announce our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Air Force Gaming leads Capt Zach Baumann, Capt Oliver Parsons, and MSgt Michael Sullivan discussing how gaming breaks down barriers … Read the rest

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

340. The Future of War is Cyber!

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist has observed the following trend in our guest blog post submissions and crowdsourcing contests: while just about everyone recognizes the significance of the cyber domain on Competition and Conflict, it’s our younger contributors — Millennials … Read the rest

July 12, 2021July 9, 2021

339. Young Minds on Competition and Conflict

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist leveraged age diversity in the subject webinar, part of this year’s series of Competition and Conflict virtual events – exploring our adversaries’ views on Competition, Crisis, Conflict, and Change. On 6 May 2021, the … Read the rest

July 8, 2021July 7, 2021

338. Algorithms of Armageddon with CAPT (Ret.) George Galdorisi

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to announce our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring CAPT George Galdorisi (USN-Ret.) discussing leading edge technologies, man-machine teaming, and algorithms of armageddon — Enjoy! (Please note that this podcast and … 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

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”