Feedback Request for "The Operational Environment and the Changing Character of Future Warfare"

TRADOC G-2 would appreciate your feedback on our paper, "The Operational Environment and the Changing Character of Future Warfare". Please share your unclassified comments in the discussion thread below.

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  • Excellent paper. One item left out: Controlling populations through addiction. While there was mention of "drug cartels" as a disruptive force, I got the impression that this was in connection with violent activity. Currently large portions of the US population are deeply addicted to drugs that keep them from functioning as fully aware and involved citizens. An addicted population is one that cannot be mobilized either militarily or as a civil force for intelligent response to cyber social-warfare. It may be easily argued that addiction is a straightforward outcome of previous (failed) policies regarding drug control and/or a simple result of the relationship between poor pain management techniques and ongoing pharmaceuticals use. However, if not this time, perhaps another time such a possibility should be viewed as a serious possible threat in the form of a chemical control weapon. Keeping an eye on the forces engaged in keeping populations under control through addictive substance availability might not hurt. It is necessary to ensure that populations are full conscious before we can fully address adding AI to innate cognition.
  • This is a consequential comment you are making and I hope that folk take notice. I'm not sure how a population-wide addiction attack would work, but I definitely see the willful creation of addicts as a 'form of struggle' in irregular war. Just as gangsters use debt traps and various forms of blackmail, they will also target people for the creation of drug dependency.
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  • This is a consequential comment you are making and I hope that folk take notice. I'm not sure how a population-wide addiction attack would work, but I definitely see the willful creation of addicts as a 'form of struggle' in irregular war. Just as gangsters use debt traps and various forms of blackmail, they will also target people for the creation of drug dependency.
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