The PLA is already testing technologies that range from widespread sensors to AI-enabled predictive planning, cargo drones, ...

Abstract: The military should—and can—operate more efficiently. One area that has potential for major savings is logistics. As combat capabilities grow, the logistics system must adapt.

Our current national security and military strategies demand that we increase our emphasis on advise and assist missions to help build partner capacity. We see great potential in such efforts within ...

Members of the 39th Logistic Readiness Squadron perform their daily tasks to assist in completing the mission at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, on Jan. 29, 2018. (Staff Sgt. Kimberly Nagle/U.S. Air Force) ...

Professor Peter Nyhuis, managing director of the Institute for Factory Plants and Logistics at Leibnitz University of Hannover, Germany stated in his book "Contributions to a Theory of Logistics" that ...

“Fuel can be a war stopper. A force can move and attack only as long as vehicles and weapon systems receive fuel, oils, and lubricants. Ultimate success may depend on having enough fuel to support the ...

The current budgetary environment requires that the Department of Defense (DoD) make the most efficient use of all its resources – money, personnel and time – reducing costs and improving outcomes ...

Logistics is the bridge between frontline units and the industrial base that feeds them. Yet in Washington, budgets tilt toward missiles and jets while the arteries that move fuel, food, and ...

Military deployments to austere environments -- whether humanitarian missions or combat operations -- involve extensive logistical planning, which is often complicated by unforeseen events.

Obtaining foreign help has always been a centerpiece of American national security strategy. In 1907, when President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched the U.S. Fleet on an audacious 14-month cruise around ...