Sustaining the Competitive Advantage EPI 2: From Boots to Billions: How the US Military is Reimag...

Описание: Zoom out to the factory floor and the national nerve center of power. This episode introduces sustainment at the National Strategic and Theater Strategic levels—defining each level of war and mapping where the Department of Defense’s strategic support area and the Defense Industrial Base fit. We unpack the National Defense Industrial Base Strategy, the U.S. Organic Industrial Base, and the strategic support area to show how materiel, people, and processes translate into combat power.This episode was created using the following reference materials:






Department of Sustainment and Force Management. USCommand and General Staff College. The Industrial Base and National Strategic Sustainment Introduction. June 2025.






US Department of Defense. National Defense IndustrialStrategy Fact Sheet. January 2024, pages 1–2.






US Department of Defense. National Defense IndustrialStrategy: June 2024 Interim Implementation Report






US Department of Defense. Organic Base ModernizationImplementation Plan. March 2024






US Department of Defense. National Defense IndustrialStrategy 2024, Chapter 1, p 7-12






Fox, LTC Amos C. Landpower Essay No. 24-1, ContestedLogistics, A Primer. Arlington, VA: AUSA, February 2024, pages 1–7






Hoyle, MG Heidi. “Three Years Later: What Have We Learned” Army Sustainment  (Spring 2025): pages 7-9


U.S. Army G-4, “Hip-Pocket Guide: Contested Logistics in LSCO,” Army Sustainment 56, no. 1 (Winter 2024), pages 1-3;).


US Department of the Army. FM 4-0, Sustainment Operations. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 31 July 2019, chapter 2, Pages 25-33. “Army Sustainment at Echelon”and “Overview of Strategic Level Support”






Jones, Amy. “Army Futures Command’s Contested LogisticsCross-Functional Team.” Army Sustainment.  Sprint 2025