The Future of Marine Corps Logistics
Summary
TLDRThe script emphasizes the importance of logistics in modern warfare, highlighting the Marine Corps' unique role in supporting integrated deterrence through agile, distributed operations. It underscores the need for a modern logistics enterprise capable of sustaining forces in contested environments, with a focus on multi-capable distribution platforms, dispersed sustainment positioning, advanced bases ready for conflict, and an integrated command and control framework. The goal is to maintain a competitive advantage by adapting to new challenges and threats, ensuring the Marine Corps remains a leading force in the Indo-Pacific region.
Takeaways
- đą Logistics is a crucial factor in military operations, affecting the speed and reach of forces on the battlefield.
- đ Traditional logistics advantages, such as deploying from secure forward bases, are becoming less reliable due to the risk of precision attacks and disruptions.
- đ„ Modern adversaries can contest logistics and sustainment capabilities from the industrial base to the front line, targeting the main supply routes.
- đ ïž The Marine Corps is undergoing modernization to adapt to the future operating environment, emphasizing small, lethal, low-signature, mobile, and agile forces.
- đ An agile and integrated sustainment network is needed to provide commanders with multiple logistics options, enhancing resilience and deterrence.
- đ Development of multi-capable distribution platforms, including autonomous systems and naval platforms, is essential for sustaining distributed naval forces.
- đŠ Diversifying and dispersing forward positioning of sustainment, along with modernizing the Global Positioning Network (GPN), is vital for supporting standing forces and crisis response.
- đ Installations must be ready for a contested environment, transforming into advanced spaces that serve as vital nodes in the logistics network.
- đ€ An integrated logistics command and control framework, incorporating artificial intelligence for faster decision-making, is necessary for coordinating distribution platforms and sustainment.
- đ The Marine Corps is positioned to lead logistics modernization efforts, focusing on a strategy of diverse and dispersed operations for redundancy and resilience.
- đ Connectivity and secure command and control are essential for the agility of forces, ensuring they can be resupplied securely and avoid becoming targets.
Q & A
What is the primary concern discussed in the script regarding logistics?
-The primary concern is that logistics is a limiting and driving factor in military operations, and that traditional logistics and sustainment capabilities are being targeted and challenged by modern adversaries.
How have recent conflicts changed the perspective on deploying and sustaining forces?
-Recent conflicts have shown that even numerically superior forces struggle to sustain themselves and protect supply routes against precision attacks and disruption from determined enemies, necessitating a reevaluation of traditional deployment strategies.
What is the significance of the Marine Corps' unique positioning in the context of this discussion?
-The Marine Corps is uniquely positioned to provide the nation with options in support of integrated deterrence, being capable of transitioning rapidly from competition to crisis to conflict and back again.
What does the script suggest about the future of logistics and sustainment capabilities?
-The script suggests that future logistics and sustainment capabilities must be agile, integrated, and capable of generating multiple logistics webs to provide options to commanders, create resiliency, contribute to deterrence, and overcome the lethality of the modern battlefield.
What are the four critical capabilities mentioned for generating logistics webs and sustaining warfighters?
-The four critical capabilities are multi-capable distribution platforms, disperse and diversified forward positioning of sustainment, installations ready for the contested environment, and an integrated logistics command and control framework.
Why is the development of multi-capable distribution platforms important?
-Multi-capable distribution platforms are important because they provide a mix of crude and autonomous capabilities designed to operate from and alongside naval platforms and bases, enhancing the ability to sustain distributed naval forces.
What is the role of the Global Positioning Network (GPN) in the new logistics strategy?
-The GPN is a dynamic integrated afloat and assured network designed to support standing forces and global crisis response, modernizing pre-positioning and ensuring a more flexible and responsive logistics system.
Why is it necessary to make installations ready for the contested environment?
-Installations must be ready for the contested environment to serve as vital nodes in the logistics network, enabling early phase operational maneuver and demonstrating commitment to allies and partners while being resilient to adversary attacks.
What is the significance of an integrated logistics command and control framework?
-An integrated logistics command and control framework is crucial for bringing together distribution platforms, forward sustainment, and advanced bases, allowing for faster decision-making and efficient resource allocation in a contested environment.
How does the script relate to the strategy of diverse and disperse operations in the Indo-Pacific?
-The script relates to the strategy by emphasizing the need for more distributed operations in various locations to provide redundancy, resilience, and the ability to move forces securely without becoming targets, which aligns with the concept of diverse and disperse operations.
What is the role of artificial intelligence in the new logistics command and control framework?
-Artificial intelligence plays a role in enabling faster decision-making, allowing commanders to match resources to requirements in a manner that is threat-informed and efficient, enhancing the overall effectiveness of logistics operations.
Outlines
đą Modernizing Logistics for Future Warfare
The first paragraph emphasizes the critical role of logistics in modern military operations, particularly in the context of the Australia-U.S. partnership and regional operations. It discusses the challenges of sustaining superior forces against precision attacks and the need to move away from relying on secure forward bases. The Marine Corps is positioned to support integrated deterrence with its unique capabilities to transition between competition and conflict. The paragraph calls for a modernized logistics enterprise to create an agile, integrated sustainment network that can generate multiple logistics webs, enhancing resilience and deterrence against modern battlefield threats. Four key capabilities are identified as central to this effort: multi-capable distribution platforms, disperse and diversified forward positioning of sustainment, readiness of installations for contested environments, and an integrated logistics command and control framework.
đ Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience in Logistics
The second paragraph focuses on the need for resources to modernize logistics capabilities, which are essential for maintaining the current pace of modernization and adapting to new challenges and threats. The Marine Corps is prepared to lead this modernization, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, working alongside Admiral Aquilino. The strategy involves diversifying and dispersing operations to achieve redundancy and resilience. This includes more distributed operations across various locations and the use of mobile logistics that are harder to target. The paragraph highlights the importance of intra-theater disbursement to resupply forces securely while maintaining mobility to avoid becoming targets. Connectivity and network integration are also stressed as essential for command and control, ensuring forces are aware of logistics requirements and can respond effectively to the dynamic nature of future operations.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄLogistics
đĄPrecision attacks
đĄSupply routes
đĄForce design
đĄIntegrated deterrence
đĄContested areas
đĄDistributed operations
đĄMulti-capable distribution platforms
đĄGlobal positioning network (GPN)
đĄAdvanced bases
đĄLogistics command and control framework
Highlights
Logistics is identified as a critical limiting factor in military operations, affecting deployment speed and reach.
The partnership between Australia and the U.S. is highlighted as significant in the region's logistics strategy.
Recent conflicts show that even numerically superior forces struggle with supply sustainability against precision attacks.
The traditional model of securing forward bases over weeks or months is no longer viable due to modern threats.
Major supply routes from large bases are now liabilities, making them targets on the modern battlefield.
Adversaries are targeting logistics and sustainment capabilities from the industrial base to the front line.
The Marine Corps is undergoing modernization to meet future operational challenges and support integrated deterrence.
The Marine Corps' forces are positioned to transition rapidly between competition, crisis, and conflict.
There is a need for systemic change in the logistics enterprise to support modern warfare.
The future of logistics requires an agile, integrated sustainment network to provide multiple logistics options.
Multi-capable distribution platforms, including autonomous capabilities, are essential for future logistics.
The development of the medium landing ship and unmanned logistics systems is part of modernizing naval forces.
Dispersing and diversifying forward positioning of sustainment is necessary for resilience against enemy attacks.
The Global Positioning Network (GPN) aims to support standing forces and global crisis response with a dynamic network.
Installations must be ready for contested environments, transforming into advanced spaces that enable operational maneuver.
An integrated logistics command and control framework is required for effective distribution and sustainment.
Artificial intelligence will play a role in faster decision-making within the logistics command framework.
The strategy of diverse and disperse operations provides redundancy and resilience in logistics.
Intra-theater disbursement and keeping forces connected and networked are key to maintaining agility and avoiding becoming targets.
Transcripts
but there are some near-term things I
think we should
pay attention to Logistics clearly one
of them
relevant to this partnership between the
Australia and the U.S and operating in
this region Logistics Logistics
Logistics that is the limiting factor
that's the driving factor in how far and
how fast you can go Logistics the
ability to deploy arm Feed and Fuel our
forces globally has been a competitive
advantage that we have enjoyed for
decades
however recent conflicts illustrate that
even a numerically Superior force will
struggle to sustain itself and protect
supply routes against Precision attacks
and disruption from a determined enemy
we can no longer expect to close and
sustain forces from secure forward bases
built up over weeks or months from areas
of sanctuary as we did in Kuwait Iraq
and Afghanistan
a handful of major supply routes
emanating from large iron mountains at
Ford bases ports and airfields will be a
liability on the modern Battlefield
we must expect to be contested by Future
adversaries from our industrial base to
the front line our Logistics and
sustainment capabilities are already
being targeted
adversaries will employ systems and
tactics to hold a fleet and Joint Force
at arm's length allowing them to employ
a strategy that uses contested areas as
a shield behind which they can apply a
range of coercive measures against our
allies and partners
Force design accelerates the
modernization of the Marine Corps to
meet the challenges of the future
operating environment the Marine Corps
is uniquely positioned to provide the
nation options in support of integrated
deterrence
our standing forces are a Ford postured
steady-state forces operating in
contested areas capable of transitioning
rapidly from competition to crisis to
conflict and Back Again
these forces are small but lethal low
signature mobile and agile designed to
operate with allies and partners across
the competition Continuum and along the
Leading Edge of Maritime defense and
depth to sustain these forces we must
modernize our Logistics Enterprise
we require systemic change now
the future calls for an agile Integrated
sustainment Network
a network capable of generating multiple
Logistics webs that provide options to
commanders create resiliency contribute
to deterrence and overcome The
precision-driven lethality of the modern
Battlefield
tomorrow's Logistics Network must be
agile enough to overcome both kinetic
and non-kinetic attacks
building this network requires the
development and resourcing of several
critical capabilities four of which are
Central to our ability to generate
Logistics webs and sustain our
warfighters
first we need multi-capable distribution
platforms the Marine Corps will require
a mix of crude and autonomous
capabilities designed to operate from
and alongside Naval platforms and bases
much of this technology is in
development to include the medium
Landing ship which is smaller than our
recognizable ships but larger than our
current ship to shore connectors
however the unmanned Logistics system
air the ch-53k and our amphibious
Warfare ships are examples of
capabilities mature enough to sustain
distributed Naval forces today
second we need to increase disperse and
diversify the forward positioning of
sustainment in addition to working
closely with allies and partners to
expand access to Shared resources we
must modernize our pre-positioning the
global positioning network gpn will
consist of a dynamic integrated afloat
and assured Network to support the
standing force and Global crisis
response third we must make our
installations ready for the contested
environment every operation begins and
ends with our bases and stations
indo-pacific installations must
transform into advanced spaces that
serve as vital nodes in the network
enabling early phase operational
maneuver while demonstrating commitment
to our allies and partners these
critical Advanced spaces require
resourcing and modernization to generate
combat power provides the statement of
forces and to recover quickly from
adversary attacks across all domains
fourth an integrated Logistics command
and control framework is required to
bring together these distribution
platforms
Ford sustainment and advanced basis
this new C2 architecture consists of new
organizations improved command
arrangements and modernize information
technology
this includes artificial intelligence to
enable faster decision making allowing
commanders to match resources to
requirements in a manner that is
threatened formed among these four core
capabilities developing a logistics C2
framework will be the most challenging
to produce
we seek the resourcing to work with
industry and The Joint Force to deliver
what will serve as the most critical
capability for the pacing function
without these we will be hard-pressed to
continue the current pace of
modernization and meet the requirements
of the new operating environment
however to retain our competitive
Advantage we must modernize our
Logistics to meet new challenges and
threats
the Marine Corps stands ready to lead
the modernization in this area as we
work in the indo-pacific with Admiral
aquilino we are looking at a strategy of
diverse and disperse in other words we
are seeing that we're going to have more
distributed operations in more locations
which will provide us that redundancy
and resilience
and then diversity to have some some
capability to move with with respect to
ships on the water that are in motion
which are harder to Target than than a
large single location where we stack up
our Logistics so we are very much
looking at how we do intra-theater
disbursement at a time and place where
we'll be able to resupply the forces
securely but keep it moving so they
don't become Targets in the future that
gets back to the agility of the force
that we need and to do that our forces
need to be connected they need to be on
the network our ability to securely
command and control and understand where
the forces are where the logistics are
and where they need to go
foreign
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