Afghanistan Equipment Drawdown: Progress Made, but Improved Controls in Decision Making Could Reduce Risk of Unnecessary Expenditures

Abstract

One of the DOD lessons learned from Iraq is to begin drawdown operations early because of their complexity. To that end, the Marine Corps began equipment drawdown operations for Afghanistan in August 2011, and the Army began in January 2012 both starting well before the January 2013 announcement that combat operations would end in December 2014.6 According to DOD officials, one reason these early actions to reduce equipment were warranted is that it takes longer to draw down equipment from Afghanistan than it does to reduce personnel levels.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Sep 01, 2014
• Accession Number: ADA610211

Entities

Organizations

• United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Afghanistan
• Air Force
• Central Asia
• Combat Operations
• Congress
• Department Of Defense
• Geography
• Government Procurement
• Governments
• Logistics
• Military History
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Management
• United States Central Command
• United States Government
• United States Transportation Command
• Warfare

Readers

• Government Contracting/Procurement.
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.