Logistics lessons
Troops, equipment and supplies moved faster and more efficiently to war in Iraq than in any previous conflict. Now military planners must build on that success.
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHTOP: Supplies at the U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany, await shipment to the field in April.
BOTTOM: An M-1 Abrams tank is unloaded from a military transport ship at the Kuwaiti port of Shuaiba.
While troops raced toward Baghdad this spring, digital maps hanging from a wall inside the Joint Mobility Operations Center at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., blinked updates every four minutes to show the path cargo planes and ships were taking to the Middle East. During the height of the war in Iraq, every one of the military's 450 daily cargo flights and more than 120 cargo ships at sea were tracked on the screen, as was everything stowed aboard them-from Joint Direct Attack Munitions to meals for soldiers.
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