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SASC Member Urges DoD Leaders To Invest More In Logistics

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SASC Member Urges DoD Leaders To Invest More In Logistics
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 252, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group stage tactical vehicles before a convoy at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Oct. 27, 2019. Marines from CLB-252 staged and maintained vehicles in preparation for MAGTF Warfighting Exercise 1-20.

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…

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