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The origins of the Defense Logistics Agency date back to World War II when America’s military buildup required the rapid procurement of vast amounts of supplies. After the war, a commission headed by former President Herbert C. Hoover recommended the armed forces centralize logistics provision. Integration began in the mid-1950s when the ...
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. National Security Agency. Central Security Service. v. t. e. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is a combat support agency in the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The agency is staffed by more than 26,000 civilian and military personnel throughout the world.
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As the nation’s combat logistics support agency, the Defense Logistics Agency manages the end-to-end global defense supply chain – from raw materials to end user disposition – for the five military services, 11 combatant commands, other federal, state and local agencies and partner and allied nations. DLA’s mission is to “Drive and ...
DLA has three distinct classes of customers: (1) deployed warfighters; (2) non-deployed warfighters and U.S. military facilities such as installations, depots and shipyards; (3) other U.S. government agencies and allied and partner nations. Deployed warfighters are those operating forces deployed to an active theater of operations.
To cite this article: Klug, Jon, “Establishing the Realm of the Possible: Logistics and Military Strategy,” Military Strategy Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 1, summer, 2023, pages 28-34. Jon Klug is a U.S. Army Colonel and Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army War College. He is a veteran of multiple deployments, an experienced staff officer in ...
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