The Convergence - The Army's Mad Scientist Podcast

120. Mapping the Future: Battlefield Dominance from Geospatial Data

[Editor’s Note:  Today’s post welcomes Lieutenant General Jim P. Isenhower. and Mr. Jason Feser, for a podcast discussion on geospatial intelligence and its implications.

119. No Winning Without Fighting: How China’s View of Hybrid Warfare Has Evolved with Dr. Howard Wang

“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

118. Sinews of War: A gaming Approach to Sustaining the Force

[Editor’s Note:  Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory blog site know that wargaming is a vital cognitive tool for understanding the complexities of the evolvin

117. From Campus to Command: The William & Mary Wargaming Lab with Luke Miller

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist and the Georgetown University Wargaming Society co-hosted our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference at Georgetow

116. Do Androids Dream of Electric War: The Reality of Autonomous Weapons with Dr. Mark Bailey

“I think there’s a moral question that one has to ask in general about whether it’s appropriate for a machine to make a decision as to whether or not a human ought to liv

115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence

[Editor’s Note:  As observed in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92, The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations: “LSCO will be marked by the democratization

114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan

“Agentic warfare is here, whether we welcome it or not. The era of military planners manually gathering limited data and compiling static crisis response options on brief

113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

[Editor’s Note:  Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

112. Battle Tested: Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry

Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Billy Barry, Professor of Emerging Technology at the U.S. Army War College, to discuss his late

111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman

  “The hope is that we can begin to profile what the capabilities of the jammer are that we’re seeing out in the field with enough measurements from enough devices” [Ed

110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo

  [Editor’s Note:  Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back Ben Van Roo, recent author of our Unlocking TRADOC’s Potential with GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges 

109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang

“We have craft that defy physics as we know it and are moving at speeds that are at least a hundred times faster than anything a human or robot… can produce on the planet

108. Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy

Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy “What we’ve got to think about is, how do we make our Soldiers more effective, how do we maintain that battlefield primacy for

107. Hybrid Intelligence: Sustaining Adversary Overmatch with Dr. Billy Barry, LTC Blair Wilcox, & TIM

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference, co-ho

106. Whipping Wargaming Into NATO SHAPE with COL Arnel David

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference, co-ho

105. Taking the Golf Out of Gaming with Sebastian Bae

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference, co-ho

104. Achieving Victory & Ensuring Civilian Safety in Conflict Zones with Andrew Olson

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist first introduced Andrew Olson to our community of action with his insightful submission to our Calling All Wargamers crowdsourcing effo

103. On the Ground and In the Air in Ukraine with Wolfgang Hagarty

“I don’t think America, or the West in general, is prepared in any sort of way to fight a static war like we’re seeing over there in Ukraine.” [Editor’s Note:  One of th

102. War, Inc: The Private Sector in Contemporary Conflict with LTC Kristine Hinds

[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory featured LTC Kristine M. Hinds‘ assessment of private sector involvement in future conflicts in “Sixth Domain” – Private Sect

101. Precursor to Victory: Understanding the Operational Environment with Mr. Ian Sullivan

[Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist is pleased to publish its 500th post!  Since its inception on 09 November 2017, the Mad Scientist Laboratory has continuously sought t