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Audio version of the editor's note for the August 2024 issue of Airman Magazine that focuses on logistics in a contested environment.
Contested logistics is a term describing an environment in which an adversary presents challenges in all domains and directly targets logistics, operations, facilities and activities in the United States and abroad, or in transit from one location to the other. To remain ready to face threats posed by peer adversaries. General David W. Allvin, the Air Force chief of staff, emphasizes four core areas that urgently demand our attention; how we develop people, generate readiness, project power and develop capabilities.
The National Defense Strategy unambiguously identified the People's Republic of China as the pacing challenge and identifies logistics and sustainment as a key operational area. Considering the evolving threat landscape and the Air Force's efforts to adapt and refocus its force design, the service has deemed that the logistics enterprise must engage in a combination of evolutionary and revolutionary changes to stay ahead of potential adversaries and to ensure readiness today and tomorrow. The Department of the Air Force intends to overcome the challenge of contested logistics by enabling agile combat employment, improving the forward posture, driving decision advantage with logistics, information management tools, and fielding improved active and passive defenses as part of the Joint Force.
In this issue of Airman Magazine, we look at some of the ways the U.S. Air Force is prioritizing logistics as a cornerstone of an integrated defense and the contributions of commands in multiple domains and building a more resilient, agile and responsive logistics enterprise. We will examine the contributions of the 557th Weather wing and the Space Force to logistical resilience and readiness, how training and exercises hone the interoperability of Allies. Partners, and the joint Force in securing logistics across the globe and the need to incorporate new technologies to ensure navigation, timing and supply line integrity, as forces are on the move and actively in combat.
| Date Taken: | 08.08.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 08.11.2024 09:36 |
| Category: | Recording |
| Audio ID: | 81921 |
| Filename: | 2408/DOD_110494784.mp3 |
| Length: | 00:03:34 |
| Location: | FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND, US |
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