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 Legos.
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Building Blocks of War
In response to China’s unconventional warfare tactics, which are aimed at crippling critical US infrastructure in the event of a war, the top U.S. military minds have been developing their own strategies to fight back.
It's known as "Mosaic Warfare," and was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The military strategy, which remains under development, would give U.S. generals far greater flexibility in fighting wars.
All military assets, such as troops, fighter jets, ships, as well as specific capabilities such as radar jamming and cyber capabilities, would be grouped as building blocks, allowing military commanders to put together a unique force package for each mission.
“The forces will be rapidly composable and may end up using tactics that haven’t been developed previously.”
- Harrison Schramm, senior fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Pivot to Asia
One of the advantages is that it will be hard for the United States' adversaries to figure out what the strategy is.
“The central idea is to be cheap, fast, lethal, flexible, and scalable,” DARPA says.
The strategy fits into the overall strategy of the U.S. military that is focusing more on Asia and specifically China as its biggest military threat.
Each week, Epoch Times reporter Simon Veazey brings you the latest on military strategies and developments.
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