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November 22, 2017November 22, 2017

5. Personalized Warfare

The future of warfare, much like the future of commerce, will be personalized.

Emerging threat capabilities targeting the genome; manipulating individual’s personal interests, lives, and … Read the rest

November 20, 2017November 21, 2017

4. Ethical Dilemmas of Future Warfare

At the Visualizing Multi Domain Battle 2030-2050 Conference, Georgetown University, 25-26 July 2017, Mad Scientists addressed the requirement for United States policymakers and warfighters to … Read the rest

November 16, 2017November 21, 2017

3. Redefining the Role of Soldiers on the Future Battlefield

Will future Soldiers be augmented hyper-enhanced fighters; a force manager of unmanned and autonomous/semi-autonomous systems; or an amalgamation of the two?

Conflict in the Mid-21st Century … Read the rest

November 13, 2017November 21, 2017

2. Advanced Engagement Battlespace and the “Hyperactive Battlefield”

Small Wars Journal recently posted a Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) assessment entitled “An Advanced Engagement Battlespace: Tactical, Operational and Strategic Implications for the Future … Read the rest

November 9, 2017November 21, 2017

1. A Marketplace of Ideas about the Future…

Welcome to the Mad Scientist Laboratory, a marketplace of ideas about the future of our society, work, and conflict. Mad Scientist is a U.S. Army Training … 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”