The era of stealth warfare is evolving. The Mosaic Warfare doctrine proposes replacing strictly material stealth—based on signature reduction—with distributed and dynamic stealth, where multiple and varied forces saturate, disorient, and dilute enemy defenses. The principle is simple: multiply platforms (people, drones, sensors, decoys) so that the enemy cannot effectively detect or engage all threats. This translates into concepts such as dilution (too many targets to track), decentralization (no single decision-making center), the use of electronic and cyber warfare, the use of tactical decoys, and the autonomy of interconnected agents. In response, defense systems must evolve toward distributed sensors, multi-source fusion, and multi-layered engagement. Superiority will no longer depend solely on costly platforms, but on the resilience of command and control (C2) in a cluttered and information-saturated environment.
The transformation of stealth: from platform to system
Traditional stealth focuses on reducing the radar, infrared, or acoustic signatures of a platform, such as an aircraft or missile. This approach has dominated strategy in recent decades. But against modern defense systems—radar networks, integrated air defense, electronic sensors—this “platform” stealth is increasingly being challenged.
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