“Agentic warfare is here, whether we welcome it or not. The era of military planners manually gathering limited data and compiling static crisis response options on briefing slides is over. In the next few years, the defense community will … Read the rest
543. Echoes of Dust and Steel
“That acceleration wasn’t just kinetic — it was cognitive. Each successful hit degraded enemy decision cycles, confused their tempo, and fractured their internal command AI. MDTF wasn’t just fighting their force. It was fighting their feedback loop. Victory didn’t hinge … Read the rest
542. Race for the Final Frontier: Why China is Highly Likely to Overtake the U.S. in Space Dominance by 2035
[Editor’s Note: The Army’s Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to feature the next in a series of posts excerpting findings from Team Axis Insight 2035‘s Project Deterrence Final Report. This Integrated Research Project documents the findings from … Read the rest
541. Contested Deployment: A Vignette
[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory know that we regularly explore how our sole pacing threat — China — could attempt to re-unify Taiwan with the mainland under the mantel of the Chinese Communist Party. As … Read the rest
