>Mosaic Warfare is a warfighting theory which suggests that making an enemy fight an unexpectedly large, asymmetric volume and variety of weaponry and platforms from different classes, sizes, and types each fighting in a way as distinct as the tiles in a mosaic – can have an overpowering advantage as compared to going head-to-head against that enemy’s similar weapons and platforms.>It’s a disjointed, multi-domain approach that runs counter to the belief that only a coordinated, uniformly-trained, smoothly-functioning fighting force would be the more powerful opponent to face. Like the tiles in a mosaic, the individual platforms of each domain – air, land, maritime, cyber, space, and so on – would together create a larger picture of broad and overpowering strength, while simultaneously making it hard for the enemy to pin down one way to fight against such a confusing, mixed bag of an opponent.Is Mosaic Warfare an effective way in engaging in war(especially considering recent events)?
>>64961409>we may be getting our shit rocked, but at least our counters are spastic and uncoordinated
Is this thirdies’ first attempt at combined arms theory?I’d like to point out that since you no longer have an effective Air Force or Navy you’re already fucked.
>>64961439Having AShMs isn't a navy. Also I'd damn well hope you can lock down a narrow strait along your coastline, failing that would be astonishingly bad
>>64961439Not for long. Kek.
>>64961409>unexpectedly largeLooks like Iran already failed this one.
>>64961439How does closing the strait helps solve the water crisis ?
>>64961409>It’s a disjointed, multi-domain approach that runs counter to the belief that only a coordinated, uniformly-trained, smoothly-functioning fighting force would be the more powerful opponent to face.>if we dont know what we are doing the enemy cannot know either!Is this the new cope for no plans?
>>64961489No its the turdie attempt at giving "you didn't kill every single one of us! Therefore I'm the winner!" a cool military jargon nickname. The didn't just get their asses kicked and sit around launching ineffective spergouts while the enemy accomplished their mission. No, they conducted hyperdimensional Mosaic warfare, their decentralized command structure both empowered regional commandera to conduct war as they saw fit AND prevented the enemy decapitation strikes from crippling their army!
>>64961489>Is this the new cope for no plans?You fool, By having each field commander act as their own isolated warlord, Iran has thousands of plans, growing by the hundreds each day!Sooner or later one of these plans will be good, and THEN Iran will teach the ziomericans a lesson!No, really! stop laughing!
>>64961485Less global warming due fossil fuel.
>>64961439wow, what a short memoryukraine has no navy yet the black sea is mostly denied to russia
>>64961409So, what Ukraine is doing? That only works because russians are incompetent and beyond retarded.I mean, the concept doesn't really make any sense, given that you could only do the shit described if you have a large, well-funded military, especially if it relies on volume. The bigger your conventional military is, the more options, platforms and volume you have.
>>64961409>effectiveNo. Not having control over your military forces is already a big fucking NO. Especially considering that chimpout where Iran was attacking their neighbors. They might as well be local isolated terrorist groups at this point.
>>64961531A monkey with a sharp rock could deny the Russian navy
>>64961409"Random bullshit, go!" The doctrine
>>64961428Mosaic warfare was invented by DARPA as next-gen hi-lo mix
>>64961409It sounds good on paper but it seems so far to be code for something else
>>64961409It seems to be working really well to help the US form a massive coalition without the US putting any effort into it.
Smart in theory, terrible in particle unless the enemy doesn't control the world reserve currency and isn't making money on high fuel costs. Ukraine is an example of this working well, while in Iran it is just pissing off other countries more and more until desert storm 2 comes to fully break up Iran into many different hellholes
Works well enough when you want a 'Sampson Option' type of lashing out (Funny to see Iran enacting it) Does not work when you actually want to achieve anything in changing your strategic situation. "No command structure" is not a plus for a nation's force trying to fight a conflict. It's resorting to becoming terrorist cells driven by personal vendettas, doing things like expending your supplies to attack hotels in a city you dislike. While the opposition's air defense only has to counter smaller waves of disorganized attack.It gives the US/Israel what they want: fracturing the Iranian government so they cannot act as organized supporters of terrorism or pose a united regional threat.
>>64961409>Is Mosaic Warfare an effective way in engaging in warIt doesn't make any sense.It either is meqnt in the vein of combined arms. Which isn't anything special, obviously you use mortars and MGs in distinct roles because they are different things.Or it is meant akin to using 20 different types of ASMs with varying specs and types of design for example. Which is frankly pants on head retarded because you fuck your logistics and standardization benefits while the enemy can still treat them as the same thing.
>>64961409>we can't actually fight, so we'll decentralize our forces so it's slightly less difficult for them all to simultaniously surrender in the face of overwhelming firepowerlol.
>>64961409>why go head to head with a peer opponent bro>just have more weapons and more variety bro>just organize them all nicely bro, it's that easy
>>64961544>They might as well be local isolated terrorist groups at this point.I think that's the actual no PR version of "mosaic warfare">We can't keep anyone in the chain of command alive and have no means to supply any unit with logistics or intelligence even if we could>so we will simply give everybody in the country missiles and tell them to just b themselves :)
Isn't this just the Volkssturm?
I'd say that whether it's intentional or not they are effectively executing a systems approach, evaluate your own forces with pragmatism and try to set them up as best as possible in regards to your own resources, capabilities and culture, relative to the enemy and relative to the overral situation.It's not about physical maneuver or attriting the enemy, but identifying in all of domains (physical, moral, information) where the enemy system can be influenced to reach a desired state.
Hot take, this doctrine isn't retarded but just ahead of its time. Done right this just sounds like what is effectively a far more complex version of present-day combined warfarfare. With the way warfare appears to be going as far as drone swarms, AI and a rapidly expanding gamme of non-traditional avenues for warfare in the cyber domain, 'mosaic warfare' in some form could become the norm. The problem iran has is that they're nowhere near that competent or high tech, so it comes across as a massive fucking cope.
Mosaic theory the way DARPA figures isn't what we're seeing in Iran. Iran cut their military into cells to try and survive decapitation. (Which hasn't worked so well lollmao) DARPA wants to adopt small amounts of new equipment, 100 each of 50 types of drones, instead of 50,000 of the same drone. To make is harder for the enemy counter a single drone threat. Which isn't a bad idea but may not be doable in our system, which loves to buy a lot of the same thing.
>>64965201 isn't that kinda what Ukraine is doing due to getting all kinds of random NATO gear in rather smallish numbers?
>>64965241Kinda? A recent example was that electronics factory which involved thinning out AD first, then the use of long range drones to bait the defenses, and then using Storm Shadows for the actual attack. But there was a day and a half gap between drone and missile strike as the batteries repositioned expecting another drone deep strike.
