Technology and Warfare
Near Peer: China (Understanding the Chinese Military)
(Understanding the Chinese Military)
READ STORYMad Scientist: MadSci blog, China and Russia’s Information Advantage
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READ STORY21st Century Large-Scale Combat Operations: Emergent Lessons Learned from Russia’s “Special Military Operation” In Ukraine
The TRADOC G-2 began capturing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) observations emerging from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict in early March 2022 using an internal MS Teams Channel named TR-G2 Russia-Ukraine Crisis Monitoring. This channel enables the TRADOC G-2 staff and greater TRADOC community to… https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/operational-environment-and-threat-analysis-directorate/w/red-diamond-newsletters/38120/02-21st-century-large-scale-combat-operations-emergent-lessons-learned-from-russia-s-special-military-operation-in-ukraine-by-ian-kersey-tradoc-g-2/
READ STORYChina Debuts New Space Capabilities
Since the beginning of 2022, new capabilities of several significant systems in China’s space program have been tested. These include space-based orbital debris tracking sensors, a new spaceplane, a new series of datalink satellites, and tests of a deployable “sail” to facilitate deorbiting of satellites. Chinese state media China News Online describes the success of…
READ STORYNew Chinese Aerial Refueling Aircraft Enters Service
Chinese officials recently confirmed that an aerial tanker variant of the Y-20, the YY-20, strategic transport aircraft has entered service [1]. The Y-20 is China’s largest indigenously produced military transport aircraft. As China’s interests overseas continue to expand, the ability to deploy forces rapidly using the base transport variant of the Y-20 will continue to…
READ STORYDATE World Users’ Blog #2 – What is DATE World?
Have you ever felt like your battalion S3 is living in a fantasy world? Has your battalion S3 section, maybe, given this fantasy world a name?…and is that name DATE World? Before psychoanalyzing the poor folks in S3 any further, it’s worth asking yourself the question: What is a DATE World? As it turns out…
READ STORYSMCT SPOTREP
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 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 STORYTRADOC G-2 New Leadership Professional Development (LPD) Series
The TRADOC G-2 is kicking off a new Leadership Professional Development (LPD) series designed to educate the force on a new series of Army doctrine, the Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 7-100 series. This doctrine series provide unclassified assessments of threat tactics. The first ATP 7-100 series publication due for release is the ATP 7-100.3,…
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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