Transformation Vanguard Army vision. The Honorable Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army, and General Eric K. Shinseki, US Army Chief of Staff Vanguard of the objective force. Colonel Michael Mehaffey, US Army IBCT at Fort Lewis. Major...
CASCOM Support for Desert Shield/Desert Storm Total Army CSS: Providing the Means for Victory by Lieutenant General Leon E. Salomon, US Army and Lieutenant Colonel Harold Bankirer C US Army
Logistics Automation Support for Desert Storm by...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) transformation included significant changes and additions to the support units assigned to ARSOF. Amidst all of the structural and personnel additions and changes, ARSOF cannot completely...
The shift in U.S. defense strategy and the transformation of the Army must be matched by a similar transformation in logistics. The Service-centric, hierarchical logistical organizations that relied upon requisitions and historical consumption...
This paper will review some of the historical trends and discuss the implications for the future of Army logistics as it supports the nation's Army, forward deployed or as it projects ground power to operations in a combatant commander's area of...
Lieutenant General Christianson, Army G-4, in his White Paper, Joint and Expeditionary Logistics for a Campaign Quality Army, urgently calls for “a single focus on the simple task of guaranteeing delivery--on time, every time. The Army must have...
When are a nation’s security forces deemed self-reliant? Security force assistance (SFA) is one process of building or rebuilding a nation’s security forces. If the ultimate goal of SFA is producing a self-reliant force capable of responding to...
In 1996, Joint Vision 2010 (JV2010) established a template for transforming the armed forces that continues to define sustainment transformation within the U.S. Army, while the publication of Network Centric Warfare in 1999 provided the theoretical...
As the Chief of Staff of the Army approves the implementation of the redesign of the Army Of Excellence (AOE) into the Conventional Heavy Division Redesign (CHDR) or, better known as, the Force XXI (FXXI) Division, the ramifications to the tactical...
The most critical component to theater opening and distribution is the strategic-to-operational seam. Covering this seam are four U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) deployment and distribution capabilities. These capabilities include the...
Studies historical examples of land transportation having a serious affect on operations. Seeks to discover reasons for failure and outlines possible solutions.
As the United States Army moves into the 21st Century, the heavy division will undergo a significant transformation. The units will more closely resemble combined arms teams that fight using the simultaneous application of combat, combat support,...
The ultimate success of the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission in Afghanistan relies on transitioning responsibility for security to the Afghan National Security Forces, primarily the Afghan National Army. The US and NATO...
This monograph describes the evolution of logistics management at the operational level since the end of the Second World War. Examining the history of how the Department of Defense has organized itself at the operational level to manage logistics...
This paper analyzes the combat service support concept of focused logistics in support of a Force Projection Army. The paper begins with an introduction to the differences between mass logistical practices of the past and the beginning and...
This monograph examines the causes of battlefield distribution challenges and failures at the operational level during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The thesis is that following the logistics challenges noted during Operation Desert Storm the Army...
This monograph describes the evolution of military logistics from 1994 to 2011 within the framework of the tenants of the Focused Logistics concept, assesses the effectiveness of the efforts to transform military logistics from a mass-based into a...