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Pentagon

Joint Warfighting Concept Assumes ‘Contested Logistics’

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

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While DoD has yet to publish the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) that the Joint Staff has been developing, a Pentagon official gave a preview of a portion of the JWC on Oct. 6 and said that it assumes a "contested logistics" environment. The JWC "is built around the 2018 National Defense Strategy," Jordan Gillis, the assistant secretary of defense for sustainment, said in his keynote address to the virtual National Defense Transportation Association-U.S. Transportation Command fall meeting. The concept "anticipates…

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