text: Chapter 5
  • Does the unit have sufficient assets (such as maintenance, communications, and transportation) to
  conduct its movement and mission? Will it require support?
  • What are the specific logistics capabilities of each nation of the multinational force?
  • What mortuary affairs capabilities does the command have?
  • What legal restrictions do national laws impose on logistics support?
  • Do national legal authorities permit providing logistics support among multinational nations?
  • Are mutual logistics support agreements in accordance with existing legal authorities?
  • What is the system for property accountability?
  • What special clothing and equipment requirements have a long lead time to obtain, such as
  nonmilitary supplies or riot control gear?
  • What are the procedures to provide support such as transportation, housing, and meals to diplomats
  and distinguished visitors? What coordination is there with a joint visitors bureau on this?
  • What is the system for preventing fraud, waste, and abuse?
  • How does the command assess logistics requests, requirements, and actions to ensure that they are
  valid with respect to the operation and authority given to the command?
  • How does the command adequately secure logistics assets?
  • Will the command establish a common retail store at some point during operations?
  • How will the intelligence staff incorporate logistics and engineer assets into the information
  collection plan?
  • What are the acquisition and cross-servicing agreement procedures to account for and reimburse
  nations for services and supplies exchanged between nations?
  • What are the common supplies and services that one nation or a multinational organization might
  provide?
  • Is there an agreement that authorizes forces to exchange mutual logistics support of goods and
  services and that accounts for the amounts received?
  • Will there be, and if so when and how, a transfer of authority of national logistics assets to the
  multinational force?
  • What is the multinational force’s authority to redistribute logistics assets and services under routine
  and emergency conditions?
  • How will the command maintain national asset accountability from the national sustaining base to
  the front-line units?
  • How will the command ensure compatibility and interoperability of communications and
  information systems, including automated data processing interfaces between the multinational and
  national support systems?
  • How will the command prioritize, allocate, and use common infrastructure capabilities (ports,
  airfields, and fire and rescue roads) to support military intervention, occupation, and civil
  administration?
  • Which entity is responsible to ensure ports have the necessary birthing capacity, depth, and materials
  handling equipment to accommodate certain sized and capacity ships?
  • Which entity is responsible to identify rail widths and gauging to accept International Organization
  for Standardization or NATO standards? What is the plan to establish necessary transfer points to
  overcome when differences occur?
  • Which entity monitors road networks to understand route capabilities or limitations and general
  (surface composition, width, height, weight, and hazardous material or impacts of weather and time
  or distance factors?
  • What are the existing STANAGs that facilitate multinational logistics support?
  • What is the logistics support structure? How will it identify capabilities and responsibilities of troop
  contributing nations?
  • Does the multinational force have an acquisition and cross-servicing agreement among
  multinational nations?
  • Does the logistics structure have one officer in charge or a main point of contact for management of
  contract personnel?
  • Have contractor procedures been established to allow total multinational participation in contracts
  led by national personnel and used by multinational personnel?