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Pentagon Working on Radical New Fighting Style: Mosaic Warfare
2020-01-31
[Epoch Times] 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.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  #14 NoMo ~ WTF happened to leaders like Hal Moore ? --Besoeker

Decadent Empires seem to be more afraid of aggressive, competent subordinates than the barbarians on the other side of the frontier. Someone like Hal Moore would scare an ancient court eunuch or beltway bandit because he is honorable and effective.
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-31 17:50  

#16  Purged with the rest of the kulaks.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-01-31 14:02  

#15  As a nation, we have increasingly forgotten whose shoulders we stand on, and the values that were the core of those forbearers beliefs. As we have abandoned the legacy of Western Civilization, we have hollowed out the institutions that produced everything of value, included the processes that made Hal Moore rise to the top.......
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-01-31 13:46  

#14  NoMo ~ WTF happened to leaders like Hal Moore ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 13:04  

#13  As a company commander I had the honor to sit on a hilltop overlooking Stony Valley at Ft Hunter Ligget for about three hours and listen to him talk about battle calculus and weapons systems placement. His comparison of main force meeting engagements with hydrostatics based on terrain and how forces flow was utterly brilliant and typically plain spoken. Truly an honor to witness a great soldier as mentor without a trace of arrogance.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-01-31 12:35  

#12  Very true MAG. I'll bet Hal Moore would have liked to have had an extra battalion or two at XRAY.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 12:23  

#11  I suppose the old strategy of 'Two up - One in Reserve' has run it's course. -- Besoeker
The "Triangular Divisions" started showing up in World War I where they were more efficient usage of manpower in a defined front situation. In Counter-Insurgency, or any other situation where the unit is out in the wilderness all by its lonesome, the Triangle starts running out of manpower really quickly.
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-31 11:47  

#10  The weirdingspreadsheet way
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-01-31 11:26  

#9  Hey, those flying tiles could put an eye out.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-31 09:04  

#8  Does the enemy have to be on the same version, or does he turn back in shame and return when he's upgraded ?



Posted by: Dron66046   2020-01-31 08:32  

#7  I suppose the old strategy of 'Two up - One in Reserve' has run it's course.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 08:14  

#6  I think i installed mosaic on Win3.1 back in 94 or 95.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-01-31 08:12  

#5  You can still get it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-01-31 08:06  

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

FIFY

I'd start with a resurrection of an old fighting principle - WIN.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-31 07:24  

#3  ^ Rob for "Obscure Reference Snark of the Day"
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-01-31 07:05  

#2  Wars are not won with outdated web browsers.
Obscure Reference Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-01-31 07:01  

#1  American officialdom does like their names. I'll never forget my division at LANL being inspected by an accounting "Tiger Team".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-31 05:23  

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