Posts by Ed Waters
TRADOC G2 Newsletter February 2023
Our latest TRADOC G2 Newsletter has a significant focus on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and highlights many new regular publications associated with this event.
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This addition has a significant focus on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and highlights many new regular publications associated with this event. In this addition you will find our new Russia Landing Zone, our latest one-stop-shop with all of our products focused on Russia. This site is packed with links and resources ranging from collaborative observations of the ongoing Ukraine Conflict to training…
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This edition includes several new products to help automate, visualize, and interact with Chinese and Russian doctrine. Since the release of the ATP 7-100.3 Chinese Tactics in August 2021, we have been working and receiving feedback from numerous stakeholders in order to help bring this manual to life. The “How They Fight Interactive Application” is in our…
READ STORYTRADOC G2 Newsletter January 2022
TRADOC G2 Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1 January 2022 Please find our latest TRADOC G2 Newsletter. This addition includes several products on Chinese and Russian doctrine. It also highlights that we have completed 11 of 17 planned new courses on Joint ISR for distributed learning on JKO. Finally, this edition includes our latest Operational Environment assessment…
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The latest Soldiers’s Manual of Common Tasks (SMCT) Visualization from TRADOC G-2: Send a Spot Report (SPOTREP) 071-COM-4080. As an element leader within an operational environment, you will need to send Spot Reports. A SPOTREP, is used to report timely intelligence or status regarding events that could have an immediate and significant effect on current…
READ STORYDecisive Action Training Environment (DATE) World
Oct. 2021. This visualization depicts the DATE World training environment. This environment allows users the train against pacing and near-peer threats. Actors within DATE World mirror the modernization efforts of our real world adversaries, and are designed to enable training for all US Army essential tasks, ensuring that the Army and its partners are doing…
READ STORYDATE World: The U.S. Army’s Training Environment
The Decisive Action Training Environment World is the U.S. Army’s official training environment, designed to enable readiness for major pacing threat challenges and advanced and persistent threats for all operational environments. It provides the Army training community with a singular, unified, scalable training environment that facilitates training across live, virtual, and constructive events. DATE World…
READ STORYThe Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) has approved and published The Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict. This document is intended to complement previously published Operational Environment (OE) documents, expanding and adding to our understanding of the OE in light of recent events — think of it as an addendum. The document…
READ STORYTRADOC G2 Threats to 2030 Visualization
The U.S. Army finds itself at a historic inflection point, where disparate, yet related elements of the Operational Environment, also known as the OE, are converging. The U.S. Army faces many challenges in the current OE. THREATS TO 2030 on DVIDS
READ STORYMeet the ION, Training for the Future, Today
Story by Spc. Tyler Morford. … As Soldiers from the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade, Homewood Illinois, and the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, gain experience at Fort Custer Training Center during a validation and evaluation exercise, a controlled network called the ION, utilized more than 15 miles away, designed to simulate current and future…
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