
The Defense Department should place a greater emphasis on funding and developing transportation and logistics capabilities to support its lethal assets in a future conflict, and explicitly prioritize it in future national defense strategies, a Senate Armed Services Committee member and retired military officer said Dec. 5. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a member of the SASC readiness and management support subcommittee and retired Army Reservist, critiqued senior department leaders for “blind spots” related to logistics and transportation capabilities within the…