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10 Future Operations: How It Might Be
Pages 148-153

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From page 148...
... Combining a greater use of Joint forces logistics capabilities with advances in technology that could, with proper support, take place over the next decade could enable the logistics forces of the 2020s to operate in a manner that would produce less of a logistics burden than the current force while improving the level of support provided to operational forces. The committee was asked to postulate three scenarios that might reflect the changes that could occur should the actions it recommends and the actions recommended by other study groups be implemented.
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From page 149...
... Once the supplies reached a forward operating base some 50 miles behind the border, they were transferred to autonomous aerial supply vehicles for movement to company and battalion positions. COL Scholes, thinking back to his days with a battalion during Operation Enduring Freedom, was amazed at the significant reduction in supplies required by the forward elements.
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From page 150...
... Don't overlook the regional capabilities of our logistics contractor, Power, Inc., and our allies in the region.  Make sure the early entry forces can produce and distribute water at the small-unit level from local resources and that we follow with water generation units using the advanced technologies we now have available.
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From page 151...
... The recently fielded combat vehicle fuel and power efficiency programs and the auxiliary power units will also result in fuel savings. We should see significant reductions in fuel demands because of all this.
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From page 152...
... She also thought back on the reduction in the size of the support force brought about by the use of autonomous resupply vehicles that moved rapidly in leader-follower convoys across the desert from the port to forward resupply bases, and the flexibility in resupply that was brought about by the use of autonomous aerial resupply to move the most critical equipment forward from forward operating bases to the battalions engaged in combat. Having been stationed at forward operating bases during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, she was amazed at how the size of these bases had been reduced in the intervening years.
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From page 153...
... Transportation Command and the Defense Logistics Agency ensured that these linkages were locked in long before units left their home stations, and that those linkages remained solid throughout the operation. They would also greatly assist in the retrograde of the material from Aridia.
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Key Terms

  • col scholes
  • forward operating
  • special operations
  • operational forces
  • main supply

  • support command
  • aviation assets
  • operating base
  • army geospatial
  • defense logistics

  • armored forces
  • logistics agency
  • logistics capabilities
  • supply route
  • autonomous aerial

  • intermediate operating
  • aridian forces
  • real logistics
  • logistics organization
  • combat loads

  • deployed forces
  • forward elements
  • embassy defense
  • disaster relief
  • guided munitions

  • enduring freedom
  • relief activities
  • operating bases
  • operations command
  • geospatial center


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