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120. Mapping the Future: Battlefield Dominance from Geospatial Data

October 1, 2026 · 39 min

[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. In this episode of The Convergence podcast, they explore the…
119. No Winning Without Fighting: How China’s View of Hybrid Warfare Has Evolved with Dr. Howard Wang

April 9, 2026 · 41 min

“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 Scientist Dr. Howard Wang, who recently served as a subject matter…
118. Sinews of War: A gaming Approach to Sustaining the Force

January 15, 2026 · 53 min

[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 evolving Operational Environment (OE). Wargaming helps facilitate “cognitive…
117. From Campus to Command: The William & Mary Wargaming Lab with Luke Miller

September 11, 2025 · 25 min

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist and the Georgetown University Wargaming Society co-hosted our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, last November, exploring: Trends in…
116. Do Androids Dream of Electric War: The Reality of Autonomous Weapons with Dr. Mark Bailey

August 28, 2025 · 25 min

“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 live or die” [Editor’s Note: As observed in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92…

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115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence

August 14, 2025 · 44 min

[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 and proliferation of advanced technologies and hyperconnected global…
114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan

July 31, 2025 · 46 min

“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 briefing slides is over. In the next few years, the defense community…
113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

June 18, 2025 · 37 min

[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have on the character of warfare — for a comprehensive list of…
112. Battle Tested: Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry

March 27, 2025 · 60 min

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 latest innovation — an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled digital war…
111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman

March 13, 2025 · 29 min

“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” [Editor’s Note: In last week’s post, Sherman L. Barto posited a fictional…
110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo

February 20, 2025 · 36 min

[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 blog post, to continue our exploration of the transformative potential…
109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang

January 23, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

“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.” [Editor’s Note: Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back…

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About the show

The Convergence is an Army Mad Scientist podcast with a distinct focus on divergent viewpoints, a challenging of assumptions, and insights from thought leaders and subject matter experts. The purpose of "The Convergence" is to explore technological, economic, and societal trends that disrupt the operational environment and to get a diversity of opinions on the character of warfare.