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Logistics, Sustainment, and Deployment: Defense Industry

Guide discussing the topics of logistics, sustainment, and deployment as it relates to national security. Supports the elective WE789-- Logistics in National Security.

Relevant Journal Articles

America's Industrial Base Isn’t Ready for War With China
Wall Street Journal, August 2022
The Defense Industrial Base: How Idiosyncratic and Historical Influences Dictate Its Future
International Social Science Review, April 2019
Defense Primer: U.S. Defense Industrial Base
CRS Report, January 2021
Getting to a Win-Win With the Department of Defense
Supply Chain Management Review, May/June 2021
Partnering With the U.S. Defense Industrial Base to Combat COVID-19
U.S. Department of Defense Information, March 2020
Why Maritime Logistics Pacts are Vital for Asia’s Strategic Balance
The Diplomat, September 2016

Websites

Defense Primers-- Naval Postgraduate School Research Guide

Relevant Online Documents/Reports

American Exodus? 17,000 US Defense Suppliers May Have Left the Defense Sector
Defense News, December 2017
America’s Industrial Base is at Risk, and the Military May Feel the Consequences
Defense News, May 2018
Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States
Presidential Report, September 2018
The Decline of the Defense Industrial Base – And What to Do About It
Defense News, October 2018
Defense Industrial Base: DOD Should Take Actions to Strengthen Its Risk Mitigation Approach
GAO Report, July 2022
Defense Logistics: DOD Has Addressed Most Reporting Requirements and Continues to Refine Its Asset Visibility Strategy
GAO, December 2015
Defense Logistics: DOD Has Begun to Improve Supply Distribution Operations, but Further Actions are Needed to Sustain These Efforts
GAO Report, 2005
The Defense Production Act Committee (DPAC): A Primer
CRS Report, February 2021
Defense Transportation : Study Limitations Raise Questions About the Adequacy and Completeness of the Mobility Capabilities Study and Report
GAO, September 2006
DOD Industrial Capabilities Report (2020)
January 2021
Empty Bins in a Wartime Environment: The Challenge to the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
CSIS Report, January 2023.
Executive Order 13806: Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States
July 2017
Generals Warn of ‘Vintage’ Depots and WWII-Era Logistics Techniques
Defense News, June 2018
Industrial Base Too ‘Brittle’ For Big War: Dunford
Breaking Defense, September 2017
Industrial Mobilization: Assessing Surge Capabilities, Wartime Risk, and System Brittleness
CSIS Report, January 2021
The Jones Act: A Burden America Can No Longer Bear
Cato Institute, June 2018
Keeping the Technological Edge Leveraging Outside Innovation to Sustain the Department of Defense’s Technological Advantage
CSIS Report, September 2015
The List is Here: Find Out How Global Defense Companies Performed in FY19
Defense News, August 2020
Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won't Be World War II Again
War on the Rocks, August 2017
Navy’s Nuclear Fleet Shipyards in Bad Shape, Report Finds
Navy Times, September 2017
Pentagon Must Target Weak Points, Improve Resiliency in the Defense Supply Chain
Defense News, November 2017
The Pentagon Wants to End Its Reliance on China for Rare Earth Minerals. But Can It Be Done?
Politico, August 2020
Preserving the Industrial Base: Is the United States Air Force Responsible?
Air Force Journal of Logistics, 2013
Rebuild US Manufacturing in These Four Steps, Says Reagan Task Force
Defense News, November 2021
Report of the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force
House Armed Services Committee, July 2021
Reviving the Arsenal of Democracy: Steps for Surging Defense Industrial Capacity
CSIS, March 2023
Sealift is America's Achilles Heel in the Age of Great Power Competition
War on the Rocks, January 2019
State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base
DOD Report, February 2022
Strategy for Improving DoD Asset Visibility
Department of Defense, August 2017
Strengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base
Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, 2020
Toward A 21st Century Defense Logistics Enterprise
Lexington Institute, February 2013
Towards Total Defense Manufacturing Visibility
War on the Rocks, October 2017
U.S. Needs More Mines to Boost Rare Earths Supply Chain, Pentagon Says
Reuters, October 2021
Unwinding Bureaucracy: Start of 2018 to See Major Pentagon Reform
Defense News, December 2017
The US is Running Out of Bombs — And It May Soon Struggle to Make More
Defense News, May 2018
Virtual Fireside Chat | The Honorable Dr. William LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
Center for a New American Security, September 2023
What Will the US Defense Industry Do When China Cuts Off Rare Earth Supplies?
Defense News, July 2019
White House Report Lists Steps to Strengthen Critical Supply Chains
Suppy Chain Quarterly, June 2021
White House Warns of ‘Domestic Extinction’ of Suppliers in Industrial Base Report - And DoD is Ready to Help with Cash
Defense News, October 2018
Winning Future Wars: Modernization and a 21st Century Defense Industrial Base
Heritage Website, October 2018
“Production Is Deterrence” Investing in Precision-Guided Weapons to Meet Peer Challengers
Center for a New American Security, June 2023

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