Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nanotechnology, the Internet of Things, blockchains, neuroscience, biotech.

We live in a world of rapid technological development. Frontiers are being pushed further and further at a faster and faster pace.

And there's a broad consensus that, in a military context, the way we fight and the environments we fight in will change as a result.

But that's where the consensus stops.

We don't yet know the degree to which war will change.

But success in future wars might turn out to hinge on our exploration of those questions today.

That's what we do in this episode of the Modern War Institute podcast.

I'm John Amble editorial director at MWI, and to take a look into the future of warfare, I'm joined by two guests. Hi, I'm David Fastabend. I'm a retired Army officer.

Hi, I'm Ian Sullivan. I'm the Assistant G2 here at Traydock for ISR and Futures.

General Fastamend and Mr. Sullivan have done some fascinating work on this topic in conjunction

with the Army's training and doctrine command.

They were also both involved in producing two pretty important papers.

We'll make several references to those papers during this conversation, so if you'd like

to read them, find this podcast episode on the Modern War Institute website and follow the links

included there.

A couple notes before we get into the discussion. First, we had a lot of help in organizing this episode from both Treydoc and in particular Treydok's Mad Scientist program. They recently

launched a blog. It's called the Mad Scientist Laboratory. It's easy to find. You can Google it.

And it's worth checking out

to see the work they're doing on the future of warfare. And finally, as always, what you hear

in this episode are the views of the participants and don't represent those of West Point,

the Army, or any other agency of the U.S. government. All right, let's get to the conversation.

Treydoc sort of owns a big part of this problem set, if you can call it, that sort of forecasting

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