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November 18, 2021November 16, 2021

367. How Russia Fights

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, introducing our new series — How They Fight. … Read the rest

November 15, 2021November 10, 2021

366. Ultimate Victory: Lessons on Future Warfare from Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes back returning blogger and podcaster Luke Shabro, Deputy Director, Army Mad Scientist, with his compelling review of the … Read the rest

November 8, 2021November 5, 2021

365. Hybrid Analysts and the Modern Platforms of Conflict

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes today’s guest blogger, Michael Lortz, contractor, analyst, trainer and writer, with a most perceptive submission proposing a new … Read the rest

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

364. China and Russia: Achieving Decision Dominance and Information Advantage

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist welcomes back returning guest blogger Ian Sullivan, Assistant G-2, ISR and Futures, TRADOC, with today’s insightful post addressing how China … Read the rest

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021

363. Other People’s Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, with Brent L. Sterling, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown … 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”