Mad Scientist Laboratory

February 27, 2025February 26, 2025

524. Weapons on Demand: How 3D Printing Will Revolutionize Military Sustainment

[Editor’s Note: Crowdsourcing remains one of Army Mad Scientist’s most effective tools for harvesting ideas, thoughts, and concepts from a wide variety of interested individuals, … Read the rest

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

523. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race

“It is a perfect use case there for Gen AI to plug into these systems and augment the processes that already exist.”

[Editor’s Note: Today’s … Read the rest

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025

522. Drones and Biotechnological Weaponry: Emerging Risks, Strategic Threats, and Viable Readiness

[Editor’s Note: Recently, we’ve seen the proliferation of UAVs granting dismounted infantry the ability to reach out and strike their enemies with both precision and … Read the rest

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025

521. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat

“We have craft that defy physics as we know it and are moving at speeds that are at least a hundred times faster than anything a … Read the rest

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025

520. Unlocking TRADOC’s Potential with GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory has continuously tracked the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since its inception in 2017. In our continuing mission … Read the rest

HOT!!!

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

Download and check out our new OE Assessment — TRADOC Pam 525-92, 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)

“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”