[Editor’s Note: The Army’s Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to feature the first in a series of posts from the United States Army War College (USAWC) Team Sullivan’s Travels‘ Future Dynamics of Warfare: Everyone is a Player, Everything … Read the rest
489. Threat #49: I Think There’s Trouble Brewin’
“That sort of sets the stage for this new class of tools of engagement. And if we really want to call [them] weapons — so be it.”
[Editor’s Note: Humanity is entering an era of hyper-innovation as the potential … Read the rest
488. Revolutionizing 21st Century Warfighting: UAVs and C-UAS
[Editor’s Note: This decade has witnessed a revolution in warfighting with the proliferation of battlefield automation and the concurrent race to develop effective countermeasures. Constellations of inexpensive, expendable, small armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the hands of dismounted … Read the rest
487. Calling All Wargamers & Wicked Problems Writing Contest
Crowdsourcing the Intellect of the Nation
[Editor’s Note: Crowdsourcing remains an effective tool for harvesting ideas and concepts from a wide array of individuals, helping us to diversify thought and challenge conventional assumptions. Army Mad Scientist seeks to crowdsource … Read the rest
486. The Hard Part of Fighting a War: Contested Logistics
“The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
[Editor’s Note: Sustaining a deployed force executing combat operations is a challenge. Geographical distance further compounds this challenge, especially when the theater of operations is half a world … Read the rest
