Pentagon Working on Radical New Fighting Style: Mosaic Warfare
By Simon Veazey
January 25, 2020 Updated: January 29, 2020

In the secretive labs of the Pentagon, top military minds are working on a new fighting style.

Their novel vision for warfare isn’t about making bigger, faster, or even higher-tech kits. It’s about getting numerous smaller, cheaper, perhaps lower-tech systems and deploying them in a radically new way.

The official term is mosaic warfare, but some strategists liken it to Lego.

“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,” according to a Mitchell Institute study (pdf), released in September 2019.

Mosaic warfare is the solution of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to China’s growing military prowess.

China’s generals have honed their military to cripple the U.S. military’s brain and nervous system—a strategy known as systems destruction warfare. They have also invested heavily in long-range missile systems and anti-aircraft systems that threaten U.S. carriers and jets.

In war-gaming carried out by U.S. analysts, China often defeats the United States in some scenarios of Pacific warfare.

With its aircraft carriers, jets, and command systems no longer able to guarantee dominance, the U.S. military is revamping across the board.

Lego Wars

America’s most potent weapons systems pack multiple capabilities. The F-35 aircraft, for example, is a missile launcher, radar sensor, stealth reconnaissance, targeting system, and much more rolled into one.

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, including some that 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,” according to a statement on the DARPA website.

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