February, 2023 | Mad Scientist Laboratory

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

435. Law of the Land: Geopolitics through an International Lens

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Dr. Joanna Siekiera — an international lawyer specializing in Pacific law, maritime law, and the law of armed conflict — discussing the … Read the rest

February 16, 2023February 15, 2023

434. LSCO, PNT, and the Space Domain

[Editor’s Note: As long term readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory know, a contemporary U.S. Army maneuver Brigade Combat Team (BCT) has over 2,500 pieces of equipment dependent on space-based assets for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). This number … Read the rest

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

433. Gaming Information Dominance

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory introduces our new Bit series, exploring a finite but key component of the greater Operational Environment in a succinct post. Today’s post by returning guest blogger Kate Kilgore explores how video games and … Read the rest

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

432. Complexity, Entropy, and Faster Battlefield Decisions

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring John Bicknell, CEO/Founder of More Cowbell Unlimited, exploring complex systems, entropy, how data can be turned into action, and empowering … Read the rest

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

431. Your Adversary is Rational, Just Not the Way You Want Them to Be

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes returning guest blogger LTC Nathan Colvin with today’s insightful post exploring how game theory can help us understand our adversaries’ motivations. Using contemporary Russia as a use case, LTC Colvin explores the dynamics … 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”