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Article: Sense and respond: military logistics in a global security environment: this article, the first in a series of three on sense and respond logistics, focuses on how the current global security environment requires logistics planners to emphasize in-transit visibility, real-time information, and responsive support to the warfighter.
- Article from:
- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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During the Cold War, the U.S. military spent billions of dollars preparing for a conventional land war on the European continent that could occur in response to a Soviet invasion. After the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries, the threat of another world war seemed implausible and U.S. political leaders began to downsize the military.
But the attacks on 11 September 2001 brought a renewed focus on military capabilities to meet a new threat: global terrorism. Military planners then recognized the need for a reconfigured military structure with more expeditionary units, a paradigm shift in training the force, and a general shift in the thought ...