[Editor’s Note: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear munitions), remain potent adversarial capabilities — as much for their potential psychological effects as their kinetic or physiological effects. Their use or threatened use, having long … Read the rest
482. Insights from the Israel-Hamas War
“Subterranean is a huge force multiplier, and I think that any adversary that has the ability to do so, is going to use it.”
[Editor’s Note: It has almost been a decade since U.S. forces and coalition partners assisted … Read the rest
481. How to Win Strategic Competition Across the Competition Continuum
[Editor’s Note: Several years ago, the Mad Scientist Laboratory featured Ian Sullivan‘s insightful post addressing how China and Russia were striving to achieve Decision Dominance by maintaining Information Advantage. In today’s post, we revisit the information environment with … Read the rest
480. Know Your Enemy: Army Doctrine Starts with the Threat
“You can focus on building a level of competence at every level — all three components, all ranks — on the enemy threat and what it can do so that we maintain overmatch.”
[Editor’s Note: Grizzled readers of the … Read the rest
479. Thoughts on AI and Ethics… from the Chaplain Corps
[Editor’s Note: With our sights trained on a rapidly evolving Operational Environment (OE), Army Mad Scientist continues to track emergent trends affecting the U.S. Army’s ability to deter aggression, or failing that, decisively defeat any adversaries in the Twenty-first … Read the rest