Mad Scientist Laboratory – Page 50 – … Exploring the Operational Environment

March 18, 2021April 1, 2021

313. The Metaverse: Blurring Reality and Digital Lives with Cathy Hackl

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of The Convergence podcast, featuring Cathy Hackl — Futurist and Founder of Futures Intelligence … Read the rest

March 15, 2021February 28, 2025

312. Tactical Innovation: The Missing Piece to Enable Army Futures Command

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger LTC Jim Armstrong, a student at the Army War College, with his insightful and provocative submission … Read the rest

March 11, 2021March 9, 2021

311. Achieving an AI-era Workforce by 2025: A Modern, Scalable Approach to Retooling the United States (and its Army!)

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory welcomes guest blogger Ted Hallum, Senior Defense Machine Learning Engineer, oLabs’ AI Center of Excellence, Octo… Read the rest

March 8, 2021March 5, 2021

310. Learning about the Future through Podcasts

[Editor’s Note: In a previous episode of Mad Scientist’s The Convergence podcast, LTC Joe Byerly observed that “in order to understand the possibilities of … Read the rest

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021

309. The Convergence: The Future of Ground Warfare with COL Scott Shaw

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of “The Convergence” podcast, featuring COL Scott Shaw, Commander, U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare … Read the rest

“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”