Mad Scientist

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist welcomes Annika La Vina, founder and CEO of DRAGON, to discuss the data-saturated battlespace of the future. She argues prioritizing cognitive load management and human-centric design over sheer information volume will prevent warfighters … Read the rest

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist welcomes back frequent collaborator and proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. James Giordano, head of the Center for Strategic Deterrence and the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, with a new submission. In today’s … Read the rest

“The PLA expected Russia to run the same playbook it did with Crimea on a larger scale.  And it didn’t work.”

[Editor’s Note:  Today’s post welcomes back proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Howard Wang, who recently served as a … Read the rest

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist launched its CALLING ALL CREATORS Multi-Media Contest on 10 December 2025 with the following Army Transformation Challenge:

Contemporary conflicts around the globe have demonstrated the ever-increasing speeds at which warfighting innovations are being … Read the rest

“We break the innovation cycle when we make our capabilities so modular, so cheap, and so decentralized that the enemy’s rapid cycles of counter-innovation have nothing to grip onto.“

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist launched its CALLING … Read the rest