Can A U.S. Army Brigade Be Able To Fight A Major War For An Entire Week Without Resupply?

Warzone/The Drive: The Army Wants Its Brigades To Be Able To Fight For An Entire Week Without Resupply

The service is worried that units have grown dangerously reliant on logistics chains that might not exist during a major conflict.

Concerns are growing throughout the U.S. military about the potential difficulties in rapidly deploying large amounts of personnel and equipment into a theater of operations under fire during a major conflict and whether there will be any bases of operation to support them once they get there. Now, the U.S. Army says it is looking for ways to ensure that individual brigade combat teams will have supplies, especially fuel and water, to be able to keep fighting for up to a week without a guaranteed supply chain.

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Aundre Piggee, the service’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, publicly announced the goal, and explained some immediate hurdles, at an Association of the U.S. Army-sponsored Institute of Land Warfare breakfast on Nov. 6, 2018. At present, the service only expects combat brigades, which typically have between 3,000 and 5,000 individuals and hundreds of vehicles and other pieces of major equipment, to be able to sustain independent operations for a maximum of three days.

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WNU Editor: It is going to be tough to make sure that there are enough supplies to sustain 3,000 to 5,000 individuals and hundreds of vehicles and other pieces of major equipment for a week. Sacrifices will have to have to be made, and hope technology fills in the gaps.