Iran and the US
Dr. Kaushal warned that as the US and Israel continues to whittle down Iran's senior defence leadership, the country's military doctrine of 'mosaic warfare' may make it harder to understand and predict its next moves. He said: "Ever since the 2000s, the Iranian concept of so-called "mosaic warfare" [has been] built around the idea that their leadership might be crippled in a war with the United States, and so they would have to devolve control down the levels of command to ensure that their military could continue to function. The basic concept is that people at lower levels [who] may have been given standard... rules of engagement in peacetime would presume greater authority if they can't make contact with higher command. There is a question of just how much authority to do things that might widen the war sits now with people who would not have [ordinarily] controlled."
