DEFAERO Report Daily Podcast [Jun 24, 21] Bryan Clark on Mosaic Warfare

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defence Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute think tank, discusses the third in a series of three reports on mosaic warfare sponsored by DARPA and coauthored with his colleagues Dan Patt and Tim Walton — “Advancing Decision-Centric Warfare: Gaining Advantage Through Force Design and Mission Integration” — how the Biden administration’s Pacific Defense Initiative illustrates the problem of poor integrated planning, how a mosaic warfare approach can help DoD make hard choices, what to prioritize and what to cut, better preparing for how adversaries are going to fight as opposed to hope DoD hopes they will, lessons from the recent episode involving HMS Defender in the Black Sea, and the shipyard capabilities the US Navy needs with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.