Abstract
Mosaic Warfare, a war fighting philosophy that treats military platforms as individual tiles that can combine to form rapidly reconfigurable force packages and resilient Kill Webs, gained attention post the recent US-Iran conflict. A transformation to this new form of warfighting is today increasingly necessitated by the vulnerability of expensive, high-value platforms or monoliths in an era of total battlefield transparency. Lessons from Iran’s decentralised command and asymmetric maritime swarms demonstrated how distributed lethality could create insoluble dilemmas for a superior conventional power. For the Indian Armed Forces, a proposed model for Mosaic Warfare involves ‘replacing traditional monolithic structures with a right mix of manned and unmanned platforms and prioritising resilience, reconfigurability and distributed lethality’.
Keywords: Mosaic Warfare, Monoliths, Decentralisation, Resilience, Reconfigurability, Distributed Lethality, Kill Webs, Unmanned Platforms, Asymmetric Technologies
