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April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

318. Why the Next “Cuban Missile Crisis” Might Not End Well: Cyberwar and Nuclear Crisis Management

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State Brandywine, with his submission … Read the rest

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021

317. Top Attack: Lessons Learned from the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring COL John Antal (USA-Ret.), continuing our recent series of … Read the rest

March 29, 2021September 8, 2021

316. Insights from the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in 2020 (Part II)

[Editor’s Note: Today’s post consists of two articles — excerpted respectively from the January and February 2021 editions of the OE Watch, published by … Read the rest

March 25, 2021April 1, 2021

315. The Bear is Still There: Four Insights on Competition with Russia

[Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army’s current operating concept states: “Russia has demonstrated the intent and the most effective combinations of systems and concepts to … Read the rest

March 22, 2021April 1, 2021

314. “The Queue” Redux!

[Editor’s Note: “As a phoenix from the ashes,” Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to bring back The Queue – a periodic post recounting … 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”