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 study of the logistical planning and in-country support of the U.S. military intervention in Lebanon in 1958 is of imminent value to the U.S. Army today. Many of the issues faced by the logisticians in Beirut in 1958 are identical to those...
This paper discusses the feasibility of using the Logistical Division as a Communications Zone Section supporting an advance base for large scale air, airborne, and air-transported operations.
Deployment is one of the hardest and most critical logistical tasks. Since WWII, the development of distribution methods to overcome logistics issues has continued with mixed success. This monograph explores these issues and the methods used to...
Seeks to determine the organization, function and operation of a theater logistic organization for the support of an amphibious operation for a strength of five hundred thousand. Discusses logistical principles, logistical tasks, World War II...
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...
Major combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were a great success; however, the theater logistics system has come under an enormous amount of criticism from both warfighters and logisticians. Leaders at all levels of command have...
This paper discusses a plan or guide for adjusting the logistical organization and procedure for a joint overseas operation to fit conditions and authority prescribed by the Unification Law.
Seeks to develop a form to be used by the Logical Sections of all three services in making logistical estimates on combined operations. Makes drafts of the proposed form and of the proposed field procedure.
This paper discusses developing a plan for adjusting the armed forces logistical organization and procedures in a theater of operations to conditions resulting from unification.
This document was written to develop an improved form, or forms, for the guidance of G-4s at all echelons of command in making logistical estimates of the situation. This would help logistical planners at all echelons of command to follow the same...
"This 1967 manual is published to provide interim guidance to commanders, staff officers, and other personnel concerned with Ammunition Service in the Theater of Operations under the TASTA-70 concept of organization and operation."
This monograph on logistic support to Vietnam is an historical account of significant actions and events, and includes discussions of the logistic environment, decisions, techniques, accomplishments, and lessons learned during the years 1965-1971.
The focus of this paper is to determine the most effective means of providing an integrated logistical support to a unified oversea command, with special reference to the organizational structure, command relationships at theater level, and with...
This monograph examines the intelligence requirements of logistics planners at the operational level of war. Specifically, it analyzes what information is available to sustainment planners, the form of that information as it is used in the staff...
This monograph reminds us that logistics is both an art and a science. Focusing on a case study of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) operations in Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007, it shows the need for including art into the preparation of the...