THE “MOSAIC” WARFARE: A NEW AMERICAN STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE
THE “MOSAIC” WARFARE: A NEW AMERICAN STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE

Summary/Abstract: Technological developments in recent decades, especially in the military field, have led to a major discrepancy in the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), especially because they have left behind doctrines and organisation of military structures for combat. The great innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and unmanned systems have gradually led to the replacement of regular fighters in modern battlespace and have reduced the number of military specialist in high-tech. Creating cost-effective opportunities to overwhelm the adversary, along with the desire for multi-dimensional protection and reducing the loss of life, have become the basic goals of American military theorists and defense researchers. As a result, it has become imperative to develop a strategy that brings together “all puzzle elementsˮ of advanced technologies and coordinates them on any potential adversary, in order to achieve a total and rapid victory. Called the Mosaic Warfare, the new US strategy presents the way in which the US currently combines various types of advanced platforms to achieve strategic surprise. The new strategic approach also requires the development of new defense capabilities to be able to act in a system-of-systems network, such as C5ISR/C6ISR (command, control, communications, computers, cyber defense, combat systems, information, surveillance and research) and the future Smart Military Base. Therefore, this paper aims to present new concepts being introduced by the “Mosaic” Warfare, analysing the importance that the future typology of conflicts will have in the development of the main strategic documents of NATO member states, including Romania.

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