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  Figure 2-1. Sustainment tasks
  SECTION II – OVERVIEW OF NATIONAL STRATEGIC LEVEL OF WARFARE
  2-6. The national strategic level of warfare is the level of warfare at which the U.S. government formulates
  policy goals and ways to achieve them by synchronizing action across government and unified action partners
  and employing the instruments of national power (FM 3-0). The instruments of national power are all of the
  means available to the government in its pursuit of national objectives, expressed as diplomatic, economic,
  informational, and military. The national strategic level of warfare focuses on developing global strategy and
  providing global strategic direction. Strategic direction provides context, tasks, and purpose for the
  employment of the instruments of national power. The specifics of strategic direction address long-term,
  emerging, and anticipatory issues or concerns that may quickly evolve due to rapidly changing circumstances.
  Strategic direction is always evolving and adapting. These organizations have the ability to create and deliver
  effects and support from the strategic base to forces in theater.
  UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
  2-7. USTRANSCOM is a CCMD responsible for providing and managing strategic common-user airlift,
  sealift, and terminal services worldwide. USTRANSCOM is responsible for integrating and synchronizing
  strategic and theater deployment execution and intertheater distribution operations into each CCDR’s AOR.
  It ensures that military deployment and redeployment, as well as DOD global patient movement
  requirements, are met using both military and commercial transportation assets based on supported
  commander business rules and best business practices. USTRANSCOM determines when commercial
  channels can meet requirements and relieve stress on limited military assets. USTRANSCOM’s major
  subordinate commands include Air Mobility Command as the Air Force component command, Military