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Article: Supply chain visibility: United States Air Force adapts to war in Afghanistan and learns logistics lessons. (Perspective).
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- DISAM Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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[The following article is a reprint from the Armed Forces Journal International, April 2002. We would like to thank the Journal for reprint permission.]
A logistical system designed around large, permanent bases and designed to contain the Soviet Union was able to adapt to the challenge of the war on terrorism in Afghanistan through some fortuitous planning decisions in previous years and hard work, United States Air Force (USAF) officials said. Decisions made in recent years to shift the Service to a more expeditionary structure and to emphasize asset tracking paid dividends when the time came to build a military presence in a section of the world where the U.S. ...