Posts by Kevin O'Connell
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.
Read MoreDATE 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 MoreDATE World Users’ Blog #1 – Introduction to the DATE World User’s Blog
Welcome to the inaugural posting of the DATE World Users Blog. The purpose of this blog is to drive rapid and continuous improvement of the training environment by: Collaborating with DATE users like you, Sharing DATE World contributions from the field, Educating the force on DATE best practices, Disseminating emerging DATE topics and concepts, Our…
Read MoreSMCT 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 MoreDecisive 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 MoreDATE 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 MoreTRADOC G2 Threats to 2030
The US Army: Facing a Complex and Converging Operational Environment The US Army stands at a crossroads. The various, yet interconnected elements of the operational environment (OE) are rapidly converging, presenting a multitude of challenges. A Return to Great Power Competition The US Army transitions from counterinsurgency operations to confront a new reality: great power…
Read MoreTRADOC 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 MoreMeet 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 MoreThe 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…
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