"Our goal [is] to have brigade combat teams sustain themselves for seven days without resupply," Lt. Gen. Aundre Piggee, who is responsible for Army logistical operations as deputy chief of staff for Army G4, told an audience at an Institute of Land Warfare breakfast sponsored by the Association of the United States Army. "That is significant. Seven days, that is a challenge."
After many years of staging out of well supplied and defended forward operating bases, this will be new to a lot of soldiers.
I assume this means hauling around more supplies, which are vulnerable to enemy attack. I'm not sure how soft targets like that survive on the battlefield.
But it also means using less fuel and 3D printing some spare parts.
Of course, precision artillery and more accurate shooting in general reduces ammunition needs.
What I don't get is why this is a goal. Is it simply to lessen the burden on supply line continuity to allow pulses of protected supply runs to reach brigades at the defined front?
Or does the Army anticipate brigades fighting while behind enemy lines on offense or when cut off during enemy offensives temporarily?
I suppose the healing powers of "and" might apply here.
