Commonly considered the genesis of the current transformation in military logistics automation and asset visibility, the "iron mountain" stockpiles of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm revealed tremendous shortcomings in the logistics community's ability to accurately depict the location of supplies and services on the modern battlefield. The solution, Army total asset visibility, was originally one of the six tenets of the Revolution in Military Logistics. But it was also a Force XXI initiative aimed at automating, streamlining, and making more efficient and effective the management processes needed to sustain large combat formations in garrison and in battle.
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