Army Materiel Command Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan said the service could disband a floating, mobile cache of weapons and equipment and instead distribute them in friendly territory.
"Our Ukrainian partners, because of necessity, are pushing the boundaries on how they do [3D printing] — both at the tactical level and all the way back at their depot system as well. The world has a lot to learn from how our Ukrainian partners are working," Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan told Breaking Defense.
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The service is also crafting a plan and working the diplomatic channels to gain new agreements for Army prepositioned stock sites in the Indo-Pacific region, said AMC’s Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan.
“There’s no way we go into a large-scale fight without relying on allies and partners for supply chain airfields [and ports]. We've identified [those], you know, down to every airfield and port there is,” said Army Materiel Command head Gen. Charles Hamilton. “Have we done the same thing here in the United States?"
“Think about Ukraine as an island... we are not allowed to cross the border,” Army Materiel Command’s deputy Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan told Breaking Defense.
To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.
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WASHINGTON: Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says over and over that his top priority to getting the Army ready to “fight tonight.” What does that mean in practice? For Army Materiel Command, which keeps troops supplied, it means literally putting its money where his mouth is. If readiness for major combat operations is really the […]
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: Determined to deter the rising Russian threat, the US Army is slashing the time it takes for a brigade to get ready for battle once it’s arrived in Europe, from over 40 days to under 10. Normally unloading equipment, getting organized, and moving to the front takes more than 40 days, Maj. Gen. […]
SAN DIEGO: Trump’s promised defense budget boost probably won’t materialize, the former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said today, so we can’t afford to grow a larger military. Instead of more ships and troops, retired Adm. James Winnefeld said in a rare public appearance, the military should prioritize investment in new ideas. His own service, […]
HUNTSVILLE, ALA: The Army plans to stockpile equipment in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Pacific countries yet unnamed that will allow US forces to deploy there more rapidly, because key supplies and gear will already be in place. The new caches will be well inside what China considers its sphere of influence. Army Materiel Command chief Gen. Dennis Via emphasized […]
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