‘Threats to Installations’ Vignettes Published to the Exercise Support Application (ESA)

Vignette images of military

The six ‘Threat to Installations’ Vignettes are products that stimulate discussions to help garrison commanders and staffs visualize the types of threats they will face in competition, crisis, and conflict. The threat activities are fictional and written to be location-agnostic so that users may add in specific locations, priorities, or threat concerns to address individual…

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SMCT SPOTREP

Operational Environment Enterprise

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…

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Meet the ION, Training for the Future, Today

How Russia Fights

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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MadSci Blog 284. The Convergence: Disinformation, Revisionism, and China with Doowan Lee

Mad Scientist Initiative

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…

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Mad Scientist Laboratory Blog Post 277. Insights from the Mad Scientist Weaponized Information Series

How Russia Fights

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/    

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