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February 7, 2022February 3, 2022

383. Is Ours a Nation at War? U.S. National Security in an Evolved — and Evolving — Operational Environment

“America’s adversaries recognize and respect its impressive battlefield capabilities. They don’t want to confront us, at least not yet. How does our Army meet the … Read the rest

January 31, 2022January 28, 2022

382. LET’S TWEET, GRANDMA – Weaponizing the Social to Create Information Security

[Editor’s Note: Ever since the Reverend Jonathan Swift‘s A Modest Proposal shocked Britain’s 18th century Whig establishment with the suggestion that Irish peasants sell … Read the rest

January 27, 2022January 26, 2022

381. Weaponizing Weather: The Global Security Threat of the Future

“We assess that climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to US national security interests as the physical impacts increase and geopolitical tensions mount about how to … Read the rest

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022

380. Veritas, Agilis, Versabilis

[Editor’s Note: In a previous post, guest blogger Chris Elles described “the relentless technological acceleration between 2020-2035 catalyzed the single characteristic that most determined … Read the rest

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

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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”