Publisher's Synopsis
In Mosaic warfare, individual warfighting platforms are assembled-like the ceramic tiles in mosaics-to make a larger picture or, in this case, a force package. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing this novel warfighting construct to acquire, field, and employ forces. To reveal the value of Mosaic warfare and uncover potential challenges in the transition to this system, the authors of this report present a pair of case studies: (1) an analysis of the human immune system's response to pathogens and (2) an analysis of the U.S. Navy's Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) project. Noting that the human immune system has evolved over 500 million years to exhibit mosaiclike properties-meaning that these properties have conferred some evolutionary advantage-the authors suggest that Mosaic warfare might have similar advantages, such as resilience and adaptability, over other approaches to defeating
