Combat units ran out of fuel and munitions, while logistics formations suffered losses from enemy actions. While multiple factors influenced this, logistics indisputably played a large role. In the opening phase of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War, Russian forces accomplished fewer territorial gains and successes than anticipated. These domains now include cyber, space, and information that will significantly impact sustainment and the ability to get to the theater through disruptive tracking and communication, which provide adversaries early warning. The traditional domains of sea, land, and air will be highly and violently contested, affecting the ability of Army sustainers to support the maneuver of forces. This would likely not be the case in a future conflict with a near-peer or peer threat like Russia or China.

military and coalition controlled the air and sea indisputably and established massive stockpiles of supplies. However, Operation Iraqi Freedom I and the previous corps-sized experience in Operation Desert Storm were against non-peer enemies and conducted in a limited contested environment. maneuvered multiple division-sized elements as fighting forces. military sustainers had to plan and support LSCO was the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, the last time the U.S. Arguably, the last actual wartime experience in which U.S. The Army’s small unit tactical sustainers are ill-prepared to conduct required forward supply operations and survive in high-intensity, fast-paced, long-distance large-scale combat operations (LSCO) that could typify future great power conflict. Army Soldiers assigned to 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division patrol Brigade Support Area 1 on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Nov. Jeffrey Garland) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Army Soldier assigned to 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division conducts a patrol during an exercise held during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center rotation 23-01 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Nov.

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