| Summary: | Preparing for the unexpected: enhancing Army readiness in the Arctic. Lt. Col. Kirby R. "Bo" Dennis, U.S. Army. The Army must take steps to enhance its Arctic posture through a training-and-equipping fort commensurate with the theater’s increasing strategic importance. Lethal weapon: combatives and mental skills training to ensure overmatch in the close-combat fight. Lt. Col. Peter R. Jensen, U.S. Army, retired, Lt. Col. Andy Riise, U.S. Army. Combatives training provides one of the few environments that generates stress responses in soldiers similar to those engendered by combat. The collaboration between the Modern Army Combatives Program and Ready and Resilient performance centers provides opportunities to mitigate the performance risk from the stress response and provides the tools for soldiers to perform optimally. Larger war, smaller hospitals? Sanders Marble, PhD. The author discusses the conundrum of battlefield challenges that will likely result in the event of large-scale combat operations (LSCO) that make rapid evacuation of casualties impossible at certain times and places, including observing that the currently envisioned size of the deployed medical capabilities to support LSCO may be too small. A Russian military framework for understanding influence in the competition period. Tom Wilhelm. The director of the Foreign Military Studies Office suggests developments of the Russian military’s General Staff reveal a useful model for examining all levels of influence in the competition period, when conditions in the operational environment are below the threshold of armed conflict. Operationalizing artificial intelligence for algorithmic warfare. Courtney Crosby, PhD. The Department of Defense’s ability to operationalize artifcial intelligence (AI) is relatively new. The author discusses how operationalizing AI is one way of gaining a military advantage and provides a framework to achieve this goal and avoid adversarial overmatch. Ensuring the political loyalty of the Russian soldier. Maj. Ray C. ...
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