MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS VERSUS “MOSAIC” WARFARE: THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS TO OPERATIONALISE THESE CONCEPTS
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https://doi.org/10.53477/1842-9904-22-13Keywords:
Multi-Domain Operations (MDO); the Mosaic Warfare; High-Tech; Competition Continuum; operational domain; Space; Cyberspace.Abstract
The fierce struggle for international (High Tech) market cornering and dominance is constantly taking place in the global Competition Continuum. The dominance of the technological market fits perfectly into the broad political-military disputes regarding the change of the current world order, in which competition between the great powers is becoming increasingly acute. While MDO has grown in popularity among the military after including two new operational domains ̶ space and cyberspace ̶ , “mosaic” warfare is viewed more condescendingly by defence researchers, being explained much more technically, as an art of assembling small pieces (of coloured glass, stone, sandstone or other materials), hence its name. As a result, the present paper aims to analyse the progress and continue to present the cutting-edge technological achievements of today according with those competition for global and regional power.The fierce struggle for international (High Tech) market cornering and dominance is constantly taking place in the global Competition Continuum. The dominance of the technological market fits perfectly into the broad political-military disputes regarding the change of the current world order, in which competition between the great powers is becoming increasingly acute. While MDO has grown in popularity among the military after including two new operational domains ̶ space and cyberspace ̶ , “mosaic” warfare is viewed more condescendingly by defence researchers, being explained much more technically, as an art of assembling small pieces (of coloured glass, stone, sandstone or other materials), hence its name. As a result, the present paper aims to analyse the progress and continue to present the cutting-edge technological achievements of today according with those competition for global and regional power.
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