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January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

379. Maximizing the Army Team’s Potential!

[Editor’s Note: Today’s post features two semi-finalist entries from our recent Army People Synchronization Conference Writing Contest.

Soldier for Life – Strategic Alignment of … Read the rest

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022

378. Virtual Intervention: People First in 2035

[Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the Army People Synchronization Conference later this month, Army Mad Scientist launched a complementary writing contest to support this critical … Read the rest

January 10, 2022January 7, 2022

377. Modernize U.S. Auxiliary Forces for New Era of Great Power Conflict

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes returning guest blogger LTC Steve Speece with another insightful post, this time addressing how Great Power Conflict in the … Read the rest

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022

376. Through Soldiers’ Eyes: The Future of Ground Combat

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to present our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring six subject matter experts (SMEs) discussing their experiences … Read the rest

January 3, 2022December 29, 2021

375. “Maddest” Guest Blogger 2021

[Editor’s Note: Our mission is to continually explore the Operational Environment (OE) and the changing character of warfare on behalf of the Army. One of … 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”