Distributed Kill Chains: Drawing Insights for Mosaic Warfare from the Immune System and from the Navy

by Brian Persons, Nicholas A. O'Donoughue, Samantha McBirney

In Mosaic warfare, individual warfighting platforms are assembled like ceramic tiles to make a larger "mosaic," or force package. Noting that the 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 advantages, such as resilience and adaptability, over other approaches to defeating a threat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977406130
• ISBN13: 9781977406132
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"