Army Withdraws from the Pacific and Indian Ocean | Army Plans to Lay Up ...

  

Great Power Competition --- Sea-Lift in commercial shipping

20,142 views May 7, 2024 #supplychain #USArmy #pacific

Army Sinks Its Fleet! What's Going on With Shipping? May 8, 2024 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the US Army decision to offload and lay up its afloat prepositioning fleet. #supplychain #USArmy #pacific #prepositioning #shipping

U.S. Naval Institute

Logistics Wins (and Loses) Wars | Proceedings - February 2024 Vol. 150/2/1,452REFERENCE: DOD has relied increasingly on prepositioned stocks of military equipment and supplies stored on ships and on land in various regions of the world to respond rapidly to developing conflicts. GAO has reported on a number of long-standing problems with prepositioned stocks programs, including unreliable requirements determinations, inadequate oversight efforts, and inefficient inventory management practices. GAO is currently reviewing this activity. Key questions: (1) What is the status of current inventory levels, maintenance conditions, and reconstitution of prepositioned stocks? (2) What are the contributing factors to long-standing problems with prepositioned stocks and how can they be...

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Military Afloat Prepositioning:Wartime Use and Issues for the Future

NSIAD-93-39Published: Nov 04, 1992. Publicly Released: Nov 09, 1992.

DOD has relied increasingly on prepositioned stocks of military equipment and supplies stored on ships and on land in various regions of the world to respond rapidly to developing conflicts. GAO has reported on a number of long-standing problems with prepositioned stocks programs, including unreliable requirements determinations, inadequate oversight efforts, and inefficient inventory management practices. GAO is currently reviewing this activity. Key questions: (1) What is the status of current inventory levels, maintenance conditions, and reconstitution of prepositioned stocks? (2) What are the contributing factors to long-standing problems with prepositioned stocks and how can they be...

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SUSTAINING DISTRIBUTED FORCES IN A CONFLICT WITH CHINA

JOHN SATTELY AND JESSE JOHNSON

APRIL 21, 2023

COMMENTARY

War on the Rocks

Sustaining Distributed Forces in a Conflict with China - War on the Rocks

 

MAY

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US Navy official questions costs of asymmetric warfare in Red Sea

In a lecture given by ADM Christopher vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 2 May 2024 at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, he raised very directly the question of the blow in the war being waged by the US Navy in the Red Sea against the Houthis.

 

MAY

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DSA 2024 : Chinese consortium Poly technologies unveils new heavy armed 58M patrol vessel

At the DSA 2024 exhibition held in Malaysia from May 6-8, 2024, the Chinese consortium Poly Technology presented the 58M Patrol Vessel, a ship that underscores China's commitment to modernizing its naval fleet.