ARMY LOGISTICS MUST GAIN SPEED, PRECISION
Lt. Gen. Charles Hamilton
Thu, 12/08/2022 - 09:20
On a future battlefield, where soldiers will be more dispersed and operating in smaller units, Army logistics must be more predictive and precise, a senior leader said.
“Those units are going to be out there, not alone and afraid, there's going to be lots of sensors and lots of things going on, but they can only carry what they can carry,” Lt. Gen. Charles Hamilton, deputy Army chief of staff for logistics, G-4, said Dec. 8 at a breakfast hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army as part of its Coffee Series.
As a result of the scenario envisioned by Hamilton, soldiers in these smaller units will have to be precise in knowing “exactly when they’re going to need to be resupplied,” he said.
He pointed out that the traditional battlefield model of having resupply arrive in a predictable convoy along the way may not exist in the future. Instead, he said, dispersed operational units may have to use grid coordinates and sensors to locate supplies dropped by a sustainment unit that then has to quickly move on to avoid detection or attack.
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