Nanotubes and Antimatter: Energy Resupply for the Future Battlefield

摘要

The U.S. military is experiencing an unprecedented period of adjustment as it transforms its combat forces for the future while simultaneously executing the Global War on Terrorism. The Army and the other services need to transform the way they model, design, deploy, and sustain their forces. As Army and joint combat forces alter their concepts of deployment and employment, they must modernize the logistics systems that support those concepts. Achieving dominance across the entire range of combat operations—particularly combat operations dealing with asymmetric threats—poses considerable logistics challenges. Army and Department of Defense engineers and scientists must stay abreast of significant discoveries in new technologies and applications that will benefit Army and joint logistics operations. As logisticians, we should stand ready to incorporate these technological advances into our systems and business processes in order to maximize the benefits they offer—reductions in the cost, time, and manpower needed for support and increases in readiness.