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September 1, 2022August 31, 2022

414. It’s All In Your Head: How The Brain Makes Better Soldiers

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Zach Schonbrun, author of The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius, discussing his book, how the brain — … Read the rest

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

413. The Resurgent Scourge of Chemical Weapons

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes back returning guest blogger Ian Sullivan with today’s guest post, addressing the recent resurgence in the use of chemical weapons in the Operational Environment. A number of adversaries have employed chemical agents during … Read the rest

August 18, 2022August 17, 2022

412. Gaming the System: How Wargames Shape our Future

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring guest panelists Ian Sullivan, Mitchell Land, LTC Peter Soendergaard, Jennifer McArdle, Becca Wasser, Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, … Read the rest

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

411. Using Wargames to Reconceptualize Military Power

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes back returning guest blogger and proclaimed Mad Scientist Caroline Duckworth with another insightful post, this time addressing the limitations of traditional net assessment in accurately predicting combat operations’ outcomes. Using the on-going … Read the rest

August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

410. Sooner Than We Think: Command Post Survivability and Future Threats

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring returning guest COL John Antal (USA-Ret.), addressing the challenges facing our Army in executing continuous and uninterrupted mission command in the contemporary … Read the rest

Explore the latest TRADOC G-2 OE content on the Operational Environment Enterprise

Download and check out the TRADOC G-2’s new OE Assessment — The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations

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)

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”

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U.S. Army War College War Room

U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin

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