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Logisticians need to get deceptive, supplies must be distributed

Army Times: Logisticians will have to learn deception tactics when supplying troops as more equipment will be floating aboard ships than ever before in global operations, officials say.

Gary Motsek, deputy assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told attendees at the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, that the nature of warfare and increased enemy threats puts the long tail supply chain at risk.

“Large log(istics) points have become a threat we can’t handle anymore,” Motsek said. “We’re going to have more distributed logistics.”

He urged conventional forces to think and act like special operations forces when it comes to supplying troops. Units will have to do more with a smaller footprint over longer periods of time.

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