Multi-Domain Operations versus the Mosaic Warfare

The past decades technological developments 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 less 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 new concept/strategy that brings together "all puzzle elements" of advanced technologies and coordinates them together on any potential adversary, in order to achieve a total and quick victory. The most important developed ones are the "Multi-Domain Operations" and the "Mosaic Warfare", aimed to integrate the Military Science and Art's innovations and high-tech with far behind operational doctrines and structural organisation.

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Dr. Craisor C. IONITA is a former Colonel of the Romanian Armed Forces, from where he retired in January 2017. Currently, he works as a Scientific Researcher at the Romanian National Defence University "Carol I". He has a PhD in the Military Science and Intelligence and is Vice-President of the Romanian Reserve Officers Association (AORR).