Iran’s Mosaic Defense: Asymmetric Warfare and Internal Security
Analysis of the ‘Mosaic Defense’ doctrine—Tehran’s strategy for decentralizing military command to survive high-intensity conflict and domestic unrest.
March 5, 2026
Auditing non-linear conflict dynamics and unconventional threat vectors. Tracks the convergence of illicit supply chains, insurgent logistics, and grey-zone operations.
Analysis of the ‘Mosaic Defense’ doctrine—Tehran’s strategy for decentralizing military command to survive high-intensity conflict and domestic unrest.
Camp Phoenix, a US hub for logistics and training of Afghan troops during the war, where 457 British servicemen and women lost their lives is now an assembly line for the Taliban to build drones, with actual US MQ9 Reaper and Iranian Shahed 136 drones, provided by Iran, to uses as models.
The battlespace changed again when the US invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussain. The mistake most make is assuming the battlefield changed on 9/11. That was the instigating event that weakened al Qaeda and created a space for another group to emerge.
First, while the US has already put its statement out publicly that they will not support Israel striking Iran directly, that does not mean they will be allowed to step back, due to the strength of the Israeli lobbyists in Congress and the House of Representatives.
Pakistan’s defense and security landscape faces a complex array of multilateral challenges, including both kinetic and non-kinetic threats, technological disruptions, and newly emerging threats.
Effective government control over traditional media is not the sole reason for the youth’s preference for social media. Commercialization, cost, dull and monotonous content, editorial gatekeeping, lack of diversity, limited access and coverage, one-way communication, sensationalism, and time delays are among the many other factors contributing to this shift.
When we launched CommandEleven on 6th September, 2015, we never explained what our vision or objectives were outside the core leadership team. Publicly, our first objective was to become a voice an opinion makers and policy advisors, as a think tank. Privately, due to our own personal relationships and experience, we built networks.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
We, the State, had allowed the Uzbeks, the Tajiks, the Arabs, Africans, the Chechens and numerous other criminals from almost all over the world to come and settle down, here amongst the tribal belt and hijack the tribes. They decapitated the mushers, (leaders) usurped the tribal way of life, commandeered spaces, collected revenue by force and governed the area through coercion, force and terror, while the State was conspicuous in its absence.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.