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Logistical Support System

This research examines the issues involved in logistics support of general purpose force employment in the 1990s and beyond. The goal of this examination is the identification of the improvements required in the existing logistical support system.

At the level of military strategy, general purpose force employment refers to the application of military power in a broad, national sense.1 Force development is concerned with the marshalling of the resources required for force employment. Logistics support is a part of force development. Although force development is driven by force employment, there is an interactive relationship between the two concepts.2 In a realistic sense, force employment decisions are influenced by both the availability of resources, and by the ability to position those resources where they may be used effectively.

Obviously, the state of the national defense industrial base in the United States affects in significant ways both force employment and force development.3 This issue is, however, beyond the scope of this examination. For purposes of this research, resource availability is assumed, and the

1D. M. Drew, and D. M. Snow, Making Strategy (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1988), 81.

3Air Force Association, and the USNI Military Database, Lifeline in Danger (Arlington, Virginia: The Aerospace Education Foundation, 1988), 15. examination emphasizes the concepts of logistical support for general purpose force employment.

Other than a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack delivered by missile or air craft on the continental United States, any general purpose force employment by the United States in the 1990s and beyond will undoubtedly involve an expeditionary war,4 as was the case of the Gulf War in 19901991. Thus, air lift, sea lift, land prepositioning, sea prepositioning,or some combination thereof will be required, and the problems and tasks involving logi...

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