MOSAIC: New Military Doctrine For The 21st Century

A $13 billion aircraft carrier. A missile that costs less than one of its aircraft. The arithmetic no longer works - and everyone's targeteers know it.This is not a prediction. It is happening now: in Ukraine, where $500 drones burn strategic bombers in their parking rows; in the Red Sea, where warships spend multi-million-dollar interceptors against weapons costing less than a car; in the Gulf, where the world's most expensive base network is a published list of coordinates.The End of the Big Target argues that the age of concentrated military power - the supercarrier, the superbase, the massed formation - is over, and that the future belongs to mosaic power: forces that are distributed, cheap, networked, and hard to kill.Inside, you'll discover: - Why every era's flagship was sunk by the next era's cheap weapon - and why the carrier is next in the pattern- The missile math: how saturation attacks turn a defended fleet's own magazines into its fatal constraint- Why commercial satellites have ended the ocean as a hiding place- A war game in which a competent, brave, superbly equipped American force loses - to a spreadsheet- What Iran, the Houthis, and Ukraine already understand about distributed power that the Pentagon's budget still denies- The six pillars of a distributed superpower - and the ten-year window to build oneWritten entirely from public sources, and steelmanning the strongest pro-carrier arguments before answering them, this is the successor to Christian Brose's The Kill Chain: Brose diagnosed the broken kill chain; this book names the disease - concentration itself.The rules of power are being rewritten on active battlefields, right now. This book explains what comes next.