Iran follows a military strategy known as Mosaic Defense, which is one of the most deliberately constructed asymmetric military doctrines of the 21st century. Rather than attempt to match any attack in conventional force-on-force engagements – a battle Tehran’s military strategists know they are unable to win – Iran has engineered a distributed, layered, and deliberately opaque defense architecture to impose prohibitive costs on any adversary attempting a large-scale military operation against Iran or its strategic interests. From an intelligence standpoint, Mosaic Defense is not just a military posture; it is a political instrument, a deterrence signal, and a strategic communication tool simultaneously.