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Logistics, Sustainment, and Deployment: Strategic Deployment/Distribution/Transportation

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

U.S. Tanker Transport: Current Structure and Economic Analysis
Research in Transportation Business & Management, December 2017

Strategic Sealift: How the U.S. Deploys Forces by Sea

Strategic Sealift

William McDonald, June 2022

Websites

Relevant Online Documents/Reports

Congress Should Fund New, Not Used Sealift Vessels, Say Former Maritime Administration Officials
Defense, News, January 2020
Defense Primer: United States Transportation Command
CRS Report, December 2020
Fuel Consumption by Containership Size and Speed
Transport Geography Website
How Air Force Tankers, Transports Can Survive In High-Tech War
Breaking Defense, September 2018
PACAF Commander Says Tankers Are ‘Key,’ Even As the Pentagon Trims Them From the 2021 budgeB
Defense News, February 2020
Pentagon Searching For New Ways To Move Gear During Next War
Breaking Defense, October 2018
TRANSCOM Running Largest Ready Reserve Force Stress Test Since 2003
USNI News, September 2019
United States Transportation Command Comprehensive Report for TURBO ACTIVATION 19-PLUS
December 2019
The US Armed Forces Have a Mobility Problem
Defense News, August 2018
The USCENTCOM Train: The Deployment and Distribution Operations Center Turns 10
Joint Force Quarterly, September 2014

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Subjects: Conflict, Security & Warfare, Military

Tags: deployment, logistics, national security, supply, sustainment