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Army Rebuilding Logistics Support for Bigger Combat

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Army Rebuilding Logistics Support for Bigger Combat

The Army logistics community is making the adjustment from 15 years of concentrating on serving small-unit operations to refocusing on supporting potential large-scale combat, the service’s top logistics official said June 2.

Lt. Gen. Gustave F. Perna, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, G-4, said years of having small units operating from static forward operating bases on predictable rotations allowed the Army to slip into a “comfort zone” where some important skills “atrophied.”

AUSA Leads Effort to Define America’s Global Role

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AUSA Leads Effort to Define America’s Global Role

The Association of the U.S. Army is spearheading an effort to shape a new American leadership identity by searching for nonpartisan consensus on basic principles guiding foreign and domestic policies.The goal is to produce a modern U.S. version of the 1941 Atlantic Charter that defined Allied goals for World War II and for the post-war period. Initially a declaration of unity signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill before the U.S.