Air Force depots can support surge capacity in the Indo-Pacific for 30 days before things get 'interesting'

By Vanessa Montalbano / February 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK -- Should a conflict between the U.S. and China break out, the Air Force Sustainment Center here could support a roughly 30-day surge before operations of the service's logistics arm get "really, really interesting," the commander said. As the war sequence matures in a simulated Indo-Pacific fight, modeling of current operational levels at the Air Force’s three Air Logistics Complexes says that, “if we go to day 31, then what we know we have --...

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