The winding down of two major US military conflicts in the Middle East is showing up in fuel purchasing data of the Pentagon’s chief logistical arm-– the Defense Logistics Agency-– which has weathered the storm of supplying all the Defense Department’s fuel and energy needs in Afghanistan since late 2001 and in Iraq from 2003-2011. The challenges over the course of that period were vast for the agency. DLA doubled its workforce to 1,339 in the ten years to 2012. Now the triple combination of troop withdrawals, sequestration and a transition to commercial-grade fuel purchases will likely force more institutional change.
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