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DATE World Users’ Blog #2 – What is DATE World?

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/31/2022 |

Have you ever felt like your battalion S3 is living in a fantasy world? Has your battalion S3 section, maybe,…

DATE World Users’ Blog #1 – Introduction to the DATE World User’s Blog

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/10/2022 |

Welcome to the inaugural posting of the DATE World Users Blog. The purpose of this blog is to drive rapid…

TRADOC G2 Newsletter January 2022

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/06/2022 |

TRADOC G2 Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1 January 2022 Please find our latest TRADOC G2 Newsletter. This addition includes several…

Ethiopia Acquiring Emirati and Chinese Drones

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/02/2022 | Comments Off on Ethiopia Acquiring Emirati and Chinese Drones

Wing Loong Baiweiflight. “The Ethiopian government has increased a large-scale recruitment drive in the army in the hopes that a…

Saudi Arabia’s Domestic UAV Program Slow To Get Off the Ground

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/02/2022 | Comments Off on Saudi Arabia’s Domestic UAV Program Slow To Get Off the Ground

Personnel from the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing trained with Royal Saudi Air Force Police Wing members in a joint counter…

Syrian Kurds Balancing Great Powers To Secure a Future in Syria

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/02/2022 | Comments Off on Syrian Kurds Balancing Great Powers To Secure a Future in Syria

Fighters of the YPJ. “We have good relations with Russia. For the past two years, we have cooperated on the…

SMCT SPOTREP

By Kevin O'Connell | 12/27/2021 |

The latest Soldiers’s Manual  of Common Tasks (SMCT) Visualization from TRADOC G-2: Send a Spot Report (SPOTREP) 071-COM-4080. As an…

Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) World

By Kevin O'Connell | 11/03/2021 |

Oct. 2021. This visualization depicts the DATE World training environment. This environment allows users the train against pacing and near-peer…

DATE World: The U.S. Army’s Training Environment

By Kevin O'Connell | 10/06/2021 |

The Decisive Action Training Environment World is the U.S. Army’s official training environment, designed to enable readiness for major pacing…

The Operational Environment (2021-2030): Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict

By Kevin O'Connell | 10/04/2021 |

 The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) has approved and published The Operational Environment (2021-2030):  Great Power Competition, Crisis, and…