Major General Ashok Kumar Srivastava, a veteran signals officer with 36 years of distinguished service including command of an Information Warfare Brigade and oversight of pan-India communication projects, delivered a compelling address on the concept of Mosaic Warfare and its imperatives for India’s future military posture.
The General opened by situating Mosaic Warfare within the broader evolution of military doctrine. He traced the journey from Network-Centric Warfare, which focused on linking large, expensive platforms to create a common operational picture, through Multi-Domain Operations, which sought cross-domain synergy across land, air, sea, space, and cyber, to the current paradigm of Decision-Centric Warfare. The central insight he conveyed was that future conflicts will be won not by the side with the most powerful individual platform, but by the side that can make better decisions faster operating inside the adversary’s OODA loop.
