[Editor’s Note: Several years ago, the Mad Scientist Laboratory featured Ian Sullivan‘s insightful post addressing how China and Russia were striving to achieve Decision Dominance by maintaining Information Advantage. In today’s post, we revisit the information environment with … Read the rest
480. Know Your Enemy: Army Doctrine Starts with the Threat
“You can focus on building a level of competence at every level — all three components, all ranks — on the enemy threat and what it can do so that we maintain overmatch.”
[Editor’s Note: Grizzled readers of the … Read the rest
479. Thoughts on AI and Ethics… from the Chaplain Corps
[Editor’s Note: With our sights trained on a rapidly evolving Operational Environment (OE), Army Mad Scientist continues to track emergent trends affecting the U.S. Army’s ability to deter aggression, or failing that, decisively defeat any adversaries in the Twenty-first … Read the rest
478. Rapid Adaptation
“Indeed, the ability to adapt is probably the most useful to any military organization and most characteristic of successful ones, for with it, it is possible to overcome both learning and predictive failures. In the interim, however, the cost … Read the rest
477. Building Beyond: Preparing the Army for Lift-Off
“Pretty much any mistake may cause loss of life and loss of the whole structure.”
[Editor’s Note: As longtime readers of the Army’s Mad Scientist Laboratory know, our adversaries are deploying capabilities to fight the U.S. Joint Force through … Read the rest
