Q. The Air Force has been talking a lot about agile combat logistics and logistics under fire. Are they the same thing? A. Not quite, but they're absolutely related. The National Defense Strategy gave us this operational problem, "Logistics Under Attack" We've enjoyed years of being able to do resupply and replenishment with little resistance from an adversary, in a permissive or semi-permissive environment. That probably won't be the case in the future. We understand that the threat will be both kinetic and non-kinetic. We've coalesced around a concept of "persistent logistics." It has three major lines of effort: posture, sense, and respond. Posture is how we set the theater, do prepositioned equipment, where we put war readiness materiel, and how we sustain it in advance of a potential fight. It's about... preparing for that non-kinetic attack, disruptive technologies that can be brought to bear, about hardening some of our critical nodes and training Airmen to be more multi-capable; to do more than just their primary job. And it's about helping our allies and partners, and recognizing the capabilities that they bring.
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