U.S. Army Logistics in the 21st Century and the Challenge of Change.

Abstract

The ongoing doctrinal and conceptual debates over Force XXI, will profoundly impact not only on how the U.S. Army of the 21st Century will fight but also how it will be logistically supported and sustained. The purpose of this paper is to examine logistics lessons learned from Operation Desert Shield/Storm (ODS) in the context of emerging Force XXI logistical concepts and to provide recommendations concerning logistics doctrine, organizations and materiel requirements for the U.S. Army of the 21st Century. When ODS logistics lessons learned concerning strategic sealift, deployment planning, host nation support, coalition responsibility sharing, transportation vehicle shortages and support of high tempo mechanized operations are overlaid on the emerging Force XXI logistics assumptions, threats and required capabilities then the resulting recommendations are far more evolutionary than revolutionary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 1995
Accession Number
ADA295053

Entities

People

  • Brian I. Geehan

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Army Training
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Geography
  • International Organizations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Planning
  • Maintenance
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.