… Exploring the Operational Environment
“It’s got to start with knowing the enemy. Everything always starts with knowing the adversary.”
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to publish its 500th post! Since its inception on 09 November 2017, the Mad Scientist Laboratory… Read the rest
[Editor’s Note: The mission of Army Mad Scientist is to explore the Operational Environment (OE) and the changing character of warfare on behalf of the U.S. Army. The OE underpins how the Army is organized, trained, equipped, and operates … Read the rest
[Editor’s Note: Crowdsourcing remains one of Army Mad Scientist’s most effective tools for harvesting ideas, thoughts, and concepts from a wide variety of interested individuals, helping us to diversify thought and challenge conventional assumptions about the Operational Environment.
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[Editor’s Note: Last week’s Mad Scientist Laboratory blog post featured a timely “what if?” nightmare scenario by COL John Antal (USA-Ret.), set in a not-too-distant-future — imagining an Operational Environment where today’s National Defense Strategy threat members, colluding … Read the rest
“Yet Let’s Be Content and The Times Lament…”
[Editor’s Note: Over recent years, we’ve witnessed increased bi-lateral cooperation between our five National Defense Strategy threats — China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Violent Extremist Organizations (VEOs). Most notably, cooperation … Read the rest