Evolving the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise to the New National Defense Strategy

摘要

Mr. McMahon began the panel by sharing a history of events that occurred when he served as the Director of Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (CD- DOC). During his tenure in that role, the US increased its manpower in Afghanistan by approximately 30,000, while concurrently drawing down operating forces in Iraq. He saw a coup in Kyrgyzstan, watched the PAKGLOC [Pakistan Ground Lines of Communications] close multiple times, witnessed the creation of the Northern Distribution Network which allowed materiel to flow into Afghanistan in a way it had never done before, saw the new Kyrgyz government cut off all fuel for operations at Manas, and, to top it off, watched the Icelandic volcano erupt and cut off all flow of aviation assets in the northern part of Europe. "I go through that history for you," he explained, "because what I saw in my time as Central Command's Director of Deployment Distribution Operations, pales in comparison to what the next INDO-PACOM CDOC Director or EUCOM DDOC Director will face in the threats that we have today."