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Month: September 2021

Posted on September 30, 2021September 28, 2021

356. A New American Way of Training with Jennifer McArdle

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, with Jennifer McArdle, Product Strategist at Improbable and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discussing the … Read the rest

Posted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

355. Shén fēng: Military Use of Weather Modification Technology

[Editor’s Note:  Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger Rory Fedorochko, senior at William & Mary and former e-intern with the TRADOC G-2’s Importance of Ridiculous Ideas internship, with an intriguing fictional intelligence (FICINT) narrative exploring how China could … Read the rest

Posted on September 16, 2021September 14, 2021

353. Global Entanglement and Multi-Reality Warfare

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature today’s episode of The Convergence podcast with COL Stefan Banach (USA-Ret.), Director, Army Management Staff College, discussing global entanglement, multi-reality warfare, and the urgent need for a new paradigm and … Read the rest

Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

352. The PLA and UAVs – Automating the Battlefield and Enhancing Training

[Editor’s Note:  Today’s post consists of two articles — excerpted from the July 2021 edition of the OE Watch, published by the Foreign Military Studies Office, TRADOC G-2, and accessed via the Operational Environment Enterprise home page — … Read the rest

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

351. The Exploitation of our Biases through Improved Technology

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes guest blogger Raechel Melling with her post exploring how our adversaries can target the Nation at the granular level, exploiting our inherent biases via much improved deepfake and voice artificial intelligence technology.  This … Read the rest

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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.

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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.

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