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Sustainment of Army forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom : battlefield logistics and effects on operations / Eric Peltz [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Rand note
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Equipment and supplies.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Logistics.
- Military supplies.
- United States. Army--Combat sustainability.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Supplies and stores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 81 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2005.
- Summary:
- The major combat operations of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have been judged from virtually all quarters as a remarkable success, although accompanied by some perceptions that this success was achieved in the face of severe logistics problems. This monograph describes how Army forces were sustained during Operation Iraqi Freedom, examines how well this support performed, and discusses the effects on operations with an emphasis on the period from the start of ground combat to the fall of Baghdad. The findings should be of interest throughout the Army as well as the broader Department of Defense supply chain, deployment planning, and force development communities. The findings have implications for the design of the logistics system, logistics process improvement efforts, future force design and warfighting concepts, and the acquisition of end items such as vehicles as well as logistics enablers such as those that provide logistics situational awareness.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Figures
- Tables
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Setting the stage
- The debate over materiel sustainment performance
- The success of major combat operations
- Distribution based logistics
- Fuel sustainment
- Fuel supplies remained relatively robust
- Theater preparatory tasks
- Planning and resourcing refuel operations
- Dry cargo sustainment
- Dry cargo distribution during combat operations
- A shortfall in trucks
- Distribution planning
- Theater distribution system ownership: potential deployment effects
- Changes in the demand for distribution assets
- Environmental and other effects on distribution capacity
- Limited distribution capacity
- Keeping distribution running: convoy support centers
- Situational awareness and in-transit visibility
- Supply levels during combat operations
- Transportation of bottled water
- The supply of food to the theater
- Ammunition supply during combat operations
- Spare parts support
- Authorized stockage lists
- On the move supply and maintenance system signal connectivity
- Effects of CONUS spare parts packaging on distribution
- Theater distribution center startup
- Priority was given to food, water, and ammunition
- Use of intratheater air
- The effect of changes in the redeployment plan
- Spare parts support during stability operations
- Packaged petroleum, oil, and lubrication products
- Equipment readiness
- Soldier readiness
- The pause in the advance at An Najaf
- Effects and implications of sustainment performance during OIF
- Combat operations
- Stability operations
- Implications for the future
- Requirements of distributed operations with long LOCs
- Low supply levels in maneuver brigades produced a strong sense of risk
- The criticality of logistics situational awareness
- Units employed a combat readiness standard
- Preparing for uncertainty
- Appendix: truck availability
- References.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the United States Army."
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