text: Chapter 1
  CONTESTED LOGISTICS CHALLENGES AND PLANNING
  CONSIDERATIONS
  SETTING THE THEATER
  1-40. Adversary actions aim to deny U.S. forces the ability to set the theater by challenging access and
  movement, thereby limiting the ability to establish a relevant forward presence of resources and caches.
  Potential ways to overcome this include—
  • Tailoring regional posture (forward posturing): Forward-postured regional resources reduce risk
  and mitigate the severity of loss and impact when adversary antiaccess and area denial efforts target
  and successfully impact the force at strategic maneuver distances. Increasing forward sustainment
  posture imposes targeting challenges on the adversary.
  • Increasing survivability of sustainment modes and nodes: Protection requirements are increased
  with the expanded future OE. Protecting sustainment resources is achieved in part through increased
  organic lethality, communications redundancy, survivability, deception, and dispersion. Protection
  of sustainment nodes, capabilities, and capacities requires the integration and synchronization of
  sustainment and other forces.
  • Building partner capacity and leveraging regional resources: Limited access and competition
  over regional resources poses a challenge for the joint force’s ability to leverage the local area
  resources needed to support Army support to other Services and Title 10 missions. Adversaries are
  using diplomacy, economic power, and irregular warfare, weaponizing information, and posturing
  conventional forces to create stand-off to fracture U.S. alliances and partnerships. These actions can
  diminish and deny the U.S. the ability to contract the required sustainment functions and capabilities
  to support the joint force. Building regional partnerships while understanding the region's economic
  environment and infrastructure complexities is critical to gaining access to resources. During
  competition, Army forces must build relationships, agreements, and contracts to shape regional
  capabilities and security requirements. Army forces will not win a conflict alone and must shape the
  sustainment environment during competition to meet Army, joint, and unified action partner
  requirements.
  ENABLING POWER PROJECTION
  1-41. Peer adversaries will contest U.S. power projection capabilities to delay, disrupt, and interdict Army
  forces from rapidly transitioning to conflict. Army forces must develop and maintain a resilient supply
  support activity (SSA), balance sustainment force posture, and modernize rapid response capabilities,
  creating multiple dilemmas to counter adversary efforts. Ways to achieve this may include—
  • Ready a resilient SSA: The Army must inform Department of Defense (DOD) prioritization
  regarding U.S. and partner infrastructure enhancements while increasing manned and unmanned lift
  assets capable of transporting supplies that require special handling (such as unique CL V missiles
  for long-range and air defense artillery). Augmentation provided through these relationships must
  not translate to overestimating their capabilities, thus leading to an unacceptable increase in strategic
  and operational risks. During competition, Army forces must work with commercial entities and
  unified action partners in potential operating theaters to understand their capacities and the duration
  of support that would be afforded to U.S. forces and incorporate these into planning.
  • Balanced total force sustainment: The total force sustainment posture must be optimized globally
  to contribute to deterrence operations in competition and be responsive to sustain large-scale combat
  operations. The Army’s contribution to power projection will rely heavily on policy, resourcing,
  and planning initiatives to balance the total force to meet rapid deployment timelines.
  DEPLOYMENT
  1-42. Fort-to-Port: As part of the strategic support area, home station installations, Reserve centers, National
  Guard armories, and other designated points of origin such as unit motor pools are where force projection
  begins. They present targets that enemy forces may attack to delay, disrupt, and degrade force flow into
  theater. Planning to mitigate deployment disruption requires partnerships between Army staffs, local
  governments and agencies, and Services to maximize lift assets and other resources. Fort-to-port operations
  require agile nodes, accurate and timely information, trained movement personnel at all levels, and the timely