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March 25, 2019March 26, 2019

131. Omega

[Editor’s Note: Story Telling is a powerful tool that allows us to envision how innovative and potentially disruptive technologies could be employed and operationalized in … Read the rest

March 21, 2019March 20, 2019

130. Trouble in Paradise: The Technological Upheaval of Modern Political and Economic Systems

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to publish the following post by returning guest blogger and proclaimed Mad Scientist Ms. Marie Murphy, addressing … Read the rest

March 18, 2019March 15, 2019

129. “The Queue”

[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to present our latest edition of “The Queue” – a monthly post listing the most compelling articles, books, … Read the rest

March 14, 2019March 13, 2019

128. Disruption and the Future Operational Environment

Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to announce that Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is co-sponsoring the Mad Scientist Disruption and the Future Operational … Read the rest

March 11, 2019March 7, 2019

127. “Maddest” Guest Blogger!

[Editor’s Note: Since its inception in November 2017, the Mad Scientist Laboratory has enabled us to expand our reach and engage global innovators from across … Read the rest

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Explore the latest TRADOC G-2 OE content on the Operational Environment Enterprise

Download and check out The Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict

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”