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https://www.theepochtimes.com/pentagon-working-on-radical-new-fighting-style-mosaic-warfare_3210312.html
A ship is not a ship and a plane is not a plane. They are providers of various sensors and effectors to force packages. Deficiencies in one platform can be made up from other force elements.
So far so good.
Again, so far so good.
Still smiling. Continuation of Distributed Ops and Multi-Domain Ops.
But then this
And this
Danger, Will Robinson!
MacNamara's bean counters are back.
Just enough means no contingency funding, no contingency plan, no reserves. It is beloved of accountants seeking 99% efficiency (assuming she isn't one of the irrational ones targeting 100%) and is constantly at odds with operational reality where achieving a 70% result is a good day.
A ship is not a ship and a plane is not a plane. They are providers of various sensors and effectors to force packages. Deficiencies in one platform can be made up from other force elements.
So far so good.
The official term is Mosaic Warfare, but some strategists liken it to Lego.
Again, so far so good.
With Mosaic warfare, instead of a limited number of the latest high-tech toys, military commanders would have the strategic equivalent of countless building blocks. Some would be unmanned.
Everything in the military toolkit—such as radar, radar sensing, jamming, missile launching or cyber capabilities—would be separated into these blocks, ready to be stuck together.
These can be assembled at will to fit each scenario, creating unique plays for each situation.
“Like the ceramic tiles in Mosaics, these individual warfighting platforms are put together to make a larger picture, or in this case, a force package,” says a statement on the DARPA website.
Still smiling. Continuation of Distributed Ops and Multi-Domain Ops.
DARPA’s Mosaic goes a step further than the Navy’s Distributed Operations and the Army’s Multi-Domain Operations concepts. Rather than just trying to side-step the anti-access problem, it also negates the Systems Destruction strategy of adversaries.
Systems Destruction refers to targeting the systems underlining a military capability or process, says Robert Bunker of the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.
“The German practice of blitzkrieg—maneuver warfare in World War II—was essentially targeting the Command and Control system of the opposing force which paralyzed its decision making and battlefield response capacity,” Bunker told The Epoch Times.
But then this
Smaller and Cheaper
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“Like Lego blocks that nearly universally fit together, Mosaic forces can be composed together in a way to create packages that can effectively target an adversary’s system with just-enough overmatch to succeed,” says a Mitchell Institute study (pdf), released in September.
Danger, Will Robinson!
MacNamara's bean counters are back.
Just enough means no contingency funding, no contingency plan, no reserves. It is beloved of accountants seeking 99% efficiency (assuming she isn't one of the irrational ones targeting 100%) and is constantly at odds with operational reality where achieving a 70% result is a good day.