February, 2022 | Mad Scientist Laboratory

February 28, 2022February 25, 2022

387. On Surprise Attacks Below the “Bolt from the Blue” Threshold

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature today’s guest blog post — the close runner-up submission from our Fall / Winter Writing Contest — by Lesley Kucharski, Counterproliferation Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her Back … Read the rest

February 24, 2022February 23, 2022

386. Then and Now: Using the Past to Secure the Future

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring our interview with Warrant Officer Class 2 Paul Barnes, British Army, discussing his recent article in Modern War Institute (MWI), learning … Read the rest

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

385. OASIS: A North American Proving Ground

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to feature guest blogger Steve Pomper with his winning essay submission from our Fall / Winter Writing Contest. His Back to the Future themed piece uses the U.S. Army’s pre-war … Read the rest

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022

384. Disinformation Threats to the All-Volunteer Force

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring MAJ Joe Littell and CPT Maggie Smith from the Army Cyber Institute, United States Military Academy, West Point, discussing the impact of … Read the rest

February 7, 2022February 3, 2022

383. Is Ours a Nation at War? U.S. National Security in an Evolved — and Evolving — Operational Environment

“America’s adversaries recognize and respect its impressive battlefield capabilities. They don’t want to confront us, at least not yet. How does our Army meet the challenges posed by adversaries who seek to sidestep US battlefield advantages while pursuing their … 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”