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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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 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…
READ STORYThe Latest from TRADOC Mad Scientist: China’s PLA Modernization through the DOTMLPF-P Lens
[Editor’s Note: As previously noted on the Mad Scientist Laboratory, U.S. battlefield dominance over the past thirty years has been sustained by three heretofore unchallenged pillars: 1) We have the best equipped Army in the world; 2) We have the best trained Soldiers and the most dynamic leaders; and 3) Our ability to conduct maneuver warfare…
READ STORYMadSci Blog 284. The Convergence: Disinformation, Revisionism, and China with Doowan Lee
Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is pleased to announce our latest episode of “The Convergence” podcast, featuring Mr. Doowan Lee, discussing disinformation, changes over time in approaches to information warfare, and revisionism and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Please note that this podcast and several of the embedded links below are best accessed via a non-DoD network…
READ STORYMad Scientist Laboratory Blog Post 277. Insights from the Mad Scientist Weaponized Information Series
Today’s Mad Scientist Laboratory blog post captures the key insights,organized into a dozen themes, that we’ve gleaned from this past Spring andSummer’s series of Weaponized Information Virtual Events. Following eachtheme, we’ve provided links to assist you in drilling down further toexplore and learn more about each of these insights. https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/277-insights-from-the-mad-scientist-weaponized-information-series-of-virtual-events/
READ STORYTRADOC 2028 Visualization
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command recruits, trains, educates, and builds the Army, driving constant improvement and change. The pace is accelerating, and with the possibility of large scale combat operations and the convergence of new technologies we are at the cusp of a change in the character of warfare. Preparing Soldiers and leaders to…
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