![]() ![]() It assures confidence in sustainment allowing commanders’ freedom of action, operational reach and prolonged endurance. It is achieved through a system of integrated and focused networks linking sustainment across the levels of war, other Service support capabilities, and to operations. Continuity is the uninterrupted provision of sustainment across all levels of war.In mitigating risks and minimizing disruptions to sustainment, commanders often must rely on the use of redundant sustainment capabilities and alternative support plans. Survivability consists of a quality or capability of military forces which permits then to avoid or withstand hostile actions or environmental conditions while retaining the ability to fulfill their primary mission. Survivability is all aspects of protecting personnel, weapons, and supplies while simultaneously deceiving the enemy (JP 3-34).It can also be achieved by contracting for support or using host nation resources to reduce or eliminate the use of military resources. ![]() It is achieved through efficient management and discipline, prioritizing and allocating resources, and capitalizing on joint interdependencies. Economy is providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner to enable a commander to employ all assets to achieve the greatest effect possible.Clarity of tasks, standardized and interoperable procedures, and clearly defined command relationships contribute to simplicity. Simplicity relates to processes and procedures to minimize the complexity of sustainment.Through responsive sustainment, commanders maintain operational focus and pressure, set the tempo of friendly operations to prevent exhaustion, replace ineffective units, and extend operational reach. Responsiveness is the ability to react to changing requirements and respond to meet the needs to maintain support.Identify required support and start the process of acquiring the sustainment that best supports the operation.Sustainment commanders and staffs visualize future operations, Anticipation is the ability to foresee operational requirements and initiate actions that satisfy a response without waiting for an operations order or fragmentary order.Army forces integrate sustainment with joint forces and multinational operations to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects from each Service and national resources. Integration is combining all of the elements of sustainment (tasks, functions, systems, processes, organizations) to operations assuring unity of command and effort.Army Doctrine Publication 4-0, published 31 July 2012 addresses sustainment principles. While these principles are independent, they are also interrelated. They are essential to maintaining combat power, enabling strategic and operational reach, and providing US Army forces with endurance. Principles of sustainment or principles of logistics are a set of military principles from the United States Army doctrine. ![]()
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