Complex because more war domains got added and vulnerable because there was more to be secured. Pravin Sawhney, in a recent article published in The Wire, states that with the arrival of new disruptive technologies, new war domains surfaced, and to remain relevant for real-time warfare, the kill-chain became complex and vulnerable. Human innovation, combined with AI will create its own tactics and strategy.Īfter discussing the contours of Mosaic Warfare, we need to highlight the contemporary concepts and weapons systems Chinese and Russian development of weapon systems and new concepts of war fighting and strategy against US concept of net-centric warfare are important to analyse. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its use in battle space allows military commanders to develop concepts for Mosaic Warfare. Creation of an autonomous system in different domains will address the issue of sense, decide and effect through decentralisation the battle to these autonomous systems, but still maintain a cohesion through mosaic warfare. This results in maintaining a mosaic where one part being lost won’t affect the entire structure. It has artistic or conceptual placing and knitting of entities with different colours, sizes and complexions. This has led to the concept of Mosaic Warfare, the system of systems at present is a well-knit jigsaw puzzle. This will need autonomy, sensors and high speed weapons and warrants speed in operational planning, execution of missions and repeating the cycle. This helps in an automated OODA loop, an acronym for observe, orient, decide and act, so the military which can get into OODA loop of the adversary will have strategic and tactical advantage. The challenge is speed - there is a need to pivot from deliberate inertia to continuous speed in battle space, making ‘time’ a weapon. There is a need to minimise the manual intervention and take help from computer-based automated systems, through machine to machine operability. The new strategy focuses on using the system of systems to integrate battle space weapons in a different way. The current weapon platforms and battlefield war machine is only better and bigger than the previous ones but cannot meet the challenges of multi-domain battle space. The US military is thus beginning to recognise the value of distributed, joint, multi-domain war fighting capability and the need for system of systems approach. Panellists including senior army, navy, and air force flag offers provided critical perspectives on the potential game-changing benefits and daunting challenges of Mosaic Warfare.ĭr Grayson stated that the US has enjoyed unparalleled and unchallenged dominance in military operations and wars in the past two decades however this may change if the US does not adapt to new warfare concepts. In the “Mosaic Warfare and Multi-Domain Battle” keynote and panel session at DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium held in 2018, Dr Timothy Grayson, director of DARPA’s Strategic Technologies Office, explained the concept of Mosaic Warfare and its path to implementation. The United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is entrusted with the job of research in evolving warfare and concept development for future weapon systems.
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