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September 16, 2021September 14, 2021

353. Global Entanglement and Multi-Reality Warfare

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature today’s episode of The Convergence podcast with COL Stefan Banach (USA-Ret.), Director, Army Management Staff College, … Read the rest

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

352. The PLA and UAVs – Automating the Battlefield and Enhancing Training

[Editor’s Note: Today’s post consists of two articles — excerpted from the July 2021 edition of the OE Watch, published by the Foreign Military … Read the rest

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

351. The Exploitation of our Biases through Improved Technology

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes guest blogger Raechel Melling with her post exploring how our adversaries can target the Nation at the granular level, … Read the rest

September 2, 2021February 28, 2025

350. The Secret Service Embraces the Future with Robin Champ

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature today’s episode of The Convergence podcast with Robin Champ, Chief, Enterprise Strategy Division, U.S. Secret … Read the rest

August 30, 2021August 27, 2021

349. Weighing Effort in the Future Strategic Environment 2028-2035

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to feature today’s guest post — a semi-finalist from our Mad Scientist Writing Contest on the 4C’s: Competition, … 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”