text: Sustainment Operations During Armed Conflict
  • Understand and anticipate how terrain, defensive obstacles, fire support coordination measures,
  movement restrictions, and terrain will affect the methods of resupply. These factors must be
  considered in all distribution management and movement control plans.
  • Expect requirements for unmanned aircraft Class III(B), V, and IX repair parts to increase during
  defensive operations. Unmanned aircraft systems often require motor gasoline or aviation gasoline.
  This requirement must be included in LOGSTATs, requisitioning, storage, and distribution.
  • Task and coordinate with movement control units for road usage or de-confliction during retrograde
  operations. This is critical to ensure the retrograde is not hindered by uncoordinated or conflicting
  unit movement on available routes. Commanders must identify main and alternate movement routes.
  • Plan for support to SOF operating in the maneuver brigade area. This includes special ammunition
  and non-standard equipment maintenance.
  • Plan for support to attack helicopter operations in the close area. This includes planning for fuel,
  maintenance, munitions, and placement of FARPs.
  • Coordinate with the rear and support area terrain managers to deconflict airspace for aerial delivery,
  Air Force airland delivery, and aeromedical evacuation requirements.
  INTELLIGENCE PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  5-154. The planning considerations for intelligence are listed below:
  • Intelligence is critical for planning sustainment operations in support of the defense. It starts with
  an understanding of the overarching operational and mission variables, but then extends to
  intelligence preparation of the OE products, detailed intelligence estimates, and other intelligence
  products that describe enemy capabilities and courses of action. From these products, planners can
  estimate friendly casualty rates and munition expenditure rates, identify protection requirements,
  and have a better understanding of where and when sustainment capabilities are needed. See ADP
  2-0 and FM 2-0 for more information on the intelligence warfighting function.
  • Like the other warfighting functions, there are some unique aspects of sustainment support to
  defensive operations that are critical to the intelligence warfighting function. Low-density
  intelligence and electromagnetic warfare maintenance is especially critical to the intelligence
  architecture and intelligence operations.
  FIRES PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  5-155. The planning considerations for fires are listed below:
  • Forecast increased consumption of long range and precision munitions for division artillery and
  corps fires units.
  • Anticipate frequent and rapid relocation of fires units in order to shift supporting units accordingly.
  • Ensure the quantity and positioning of modular ammunition units at EAB are sufficient to support
  fires ammunition requirements.
  • Ensure that ammunition transportation assets are adequate and properly positioned to support
  ammunition distribution for fires operations. The TSC must coordinate with the CCMD J-4 and
  strategic providers to ensure required munitions are being distributed to the theater.
  PROTECTION PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  5-156. The planning considerations for protection are listed below:
  • Plan for establishing base cluster operations to create dispersion and facilitate concealment.
  Commanders should plan to disperse large, consolidated bases from which sustainment units operate
  into smaller bases to form a base cluster. This is for all bases, from the BSA to bases operating in
  the joint security area. Consider all security integration implications of the base cluster.
  • Plan for positioning of EOD assets to render safe and dispose of explosive hazards threatening
  critical infrastructure, terrain, materiel, and nodes necessary for force generation, including the
  removal of lodged munitions in mortars, artillery tubes, long range fires and other weapons systems.
  Additionally, EOD assets support battle damage assessment and repair and hung/armed ordnance
  on aircraft.
  • Expect direct enemy attack by small unit/special operations ground forces, attack aircraft, and long-
  range artillery. Commanders must ensure that base defense measures are adequate to detect and