15. U.K. Fight Club: Gaming the Future Army with LTC Arnel David and Major Aaron Moore

Episode 15 July 23, 2020 00:23:41
15. U.K. Fight Club: Gaming the Future Army with LTC Arnel David and Major Aaron Moore
The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast
15. U.K. Fight Club: Gaming the Future Army with LTC Arnel David and Major Aaron Moore

Jul 23 2020 | 00:23:41

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Show Notes

In this latest episode of “The Convergence,” we talk with guest bloggers LTC Arnel David, U.S. Army, and Major Aaron Moore, British Army, who recently penned Fight Club Prepares Lt Col Maddie Novák for Cross-Dimension Manoeuvre — describing the nascent revolution in Professional Military Education (PME) wrought by the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital assistants, gaming, and Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Using storytelling and backcasting, LTC David and Maj Moore vividly described how Leaders will seek out and leverage these technologies to hone their warfighting skills across all dimensions, enabling them to “think, fight, learn, repeat” and enhance their versatility as innovators on the battlefield.

In today’s podcast, LTC David and Major Moore further discuss the convergence of technology and wargaming that resulted in Fight Club and how it is transforming Leader development: 

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