Sustainment in Indo-Pacific needs consistent funding, AMC official says

By Ethan Sterenfeld / May 19, 2021 at 2:09 PM
REDSTONE ARSENAL, AL -- The Army needs consistent sustainment funding to build up prepositioned stocks and supply lines in the Indo-Pacific and other parts of the world, an official with Army Materiel Command said in an interview last month. "Holding back this year might cost you for the next three," Curt Higdon, chief of the War Plans and Strategy Division at AMC, told Inside Defense during an April 29 visit to AMC headquarters. Sustainment requires infrastructure and careful planning, both...

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