The military’s logistics system needs to be further modernized, as was shown by the tendency of U.S. ground forces to exhaust supplies during the push toward Baghdad, according to a Defense official who spoke at a recent digital communications conference in Washington D.C.
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, director of the Pentagon’s office of force transformation, said that logisticians use separate information and command and control systems apart from those that war-fighters use, and that both are fallible. He said that to fix such problems, those in the supply structure and ground forces need common metrics.
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