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October 14, 2021January 30, 2025

359. Cultural Intelligence: More than Materiel

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, with Terry Young, Founder and CEO, sparks & … Read the rest

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021

358. Pattern Detected! Masking by Injecting Randomness

[Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, COL Scott Shaw, then Commander of the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, in an episode of Army Mad Scientist’s The … Read the rest

October 4, 2021October 1, 2021

357. The Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict

“Our adversaries are not just thinking in terms of matching us in materiel, but also in terms of people and approaches to warfare. They are challenging … Read the rest

September 30, 2021September 28, 2021

356. A New American Way of Training with Jennifer McArdle

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, with Jennifer McArdle, Product Strategist at Improbable and … Read the rest

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

355. Shén fēng: Military Use of Weather Modification Technology

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger Rory Fedorochko, senior at William & Mary and former e-intern with the TRADOC G-2’s Importance 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”