A Survey of Coalition Logistics Issues, Options, and Opportunities for Research

Abstract

Coalition logistics refers to collaborative support of military forces by allies, including host nation support, cooperative management of supply and maintenance, and shared logistics planning for codeveloped weapon systems. Coalition logistics has never been a dominant theme of combined operations in U.S. alliances. As a result, opportunities for coalition logistics are going unrealized or underexploited, and payoffs from pursuing these opportunities have not been analyzed. This Note reports on a survey of such opportunities as they pertain to the U.S. Air Force and outlines prerequisite research needed to capitalize on them. Despite formidable political and economic obstacles to implementing coalition logistics, there are trends at work that appear to augur favorably for that approach in the long run. The author suggests research areas for assessing the merits of possible directions for coalition logistics and to determine how to reduce the barriers to implementation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA235598

Entities

People

  • H. W. Gustafson
  • Richard J. Kaplan

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computer Programs
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Organizational Structure
  • Supply Depots
  • United States European Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies