WEBVTT 00:02.299 --> 00:04.030 Through the course of military 00:04.039 --> 00:06.730 operations throughout history . Success 00:06.739 --> 00:10.430 or failure in military operations can 00:10.439 --> 00:13.020 largely be driven by the logistics 00:13.029 --> 00:16.030 sustainment that has enabled them in a 00:16.040 --> 00:18.151 contested environment . You've got to 00:18.151 --> 00:20.373 really think your way through . How are 00:20.373 --> 00:23.139 you going to move people , equipment , 00:23.149 --> 00:24.982 parts that need to be repaired , 00:24.982 --> 00:27.260 munitions . How do you accomplish that ? 00:33.009 --> 00:35.430 Logistics , the art of transporting 00:35.439 --> 00:38.950 people supplies and equipment . It's a 00:38.959 --> 00:41.015 foundational element of our everyday 00:41.015 --> 00:43.590 lives and of any military operation . 00:44.750 --> 00:46.750 And as the US Air Force faces a new 00:46.750 --> 00:48.917 great power competition with near peer 00:48.917 --> 00:50.819 adversaries . It recognizes multi 00:50.869 --> 00:53.130 domain threats , both old and new 00:53.909 --> 00:56.549 People's Republic of China , Russia , 00:57.279 --> 00:59.549 North Korea , all of whom you know , 00:59.560 --> 01:02.029 build out capabilities that seek to 01:02.040 --> 01:03.984 stop us or to limit our ability to 01:03.984 --> 01:07.690 maneuver , to frame contested logistics . 01:07.699 --> 01:09.755 At least from my perspective here in 01:09.755 --> 01:11.977 Pacific Air Forces . When I look at the 01:11.977 --> 01:13.921 theater , it is 100 million square 01:13.921 --> 01:16.500 miles covers 52% of the globe and 01:16.510 --> 01:18.732 logistics is challenged kinetically and 01:18.732 --> 01:20.954 non kinetically by those who would keep 01:20.954 --> 01:23.580 us out to meet these challenges . The 01:23.589 --> 01:25.867 air force is taking several approaches . 01:25.980 --> 01:29.190 One is agile combat employment or ace . 01:29.849 --> 01:31.738 It's a way to position assets and 01:31.738 --> 01:33.849 resources so they're less centralized 01:33.849 --> 01:36.620 and easier to deploy all of this is 01:36.629 --> 01:38.740 underpinned by that relationship with 01:38.740 --> 01:40.962 allies and partners that enables access 01:40.962 --> 01:42.851 basing and over flight . The more 01:42.851 --> 01:44.907 places from which we have to operate 01:44.907 --> 01:47.129 makes us better , makes us stronger and 01:47.129 --> 01:49.351 certainly more responsive regardless of 01:49.351 --> 01:51.462 what the crisis is . Another approach 01:51.462 --> 01:53.379 is resilient , basing , ensuring 01:53.389 --> 01:55.167 installations can withstand the 01:55.167 --> 01:57.445 extremes of weather as well as attacks , 01:57.445 --> 01:59.980 both kinetic and cyber . I think it's 01:59.989 --> 02:03.050 useful to think beyond just the kinetic 02:03.059 --> 02:06.580 piece , a cyber attack to confuse or 02:06.589 --> 02:09.509 disrupt the information that would make 02:09.520 --> 02:11.520 the mission successful is something 02:11.520 --> 02:13.576 that an adversary would want to take 02:13.576 --> 02:15.742 advantage of . And so , so we work our 02:15.742 --> 02:17.964 way through all domains . It's it's air 02:17.964 --> 02:19.740 its surface . It's also cyber 02:23.289 --> 02:25.789 this new era of contested logistics 02:25.800 --> 02:28.130 necessitates future focused strategies 02:28.139 --> 02:30.259 informed by the Air Force's past . 02:33.289 --> 02:36.380 When we think about the scale of great 02:36.389 --> 02:38.729 power competition and even conflict . 02:38.740 --> 02:42.619 That scale of peer to peer war is 02:42.630 --> 02:45.470 something that thankfully , the globe 02:45.479 --> 02:48.750 hasn't seen nearly as much of since the 02:48.759 --> 02:50.759 end of world war two . That doesn't 02:50.759 --> 02:52.830 mean that it couldn't happen again . 02:59.259 --> 03:02.059 Superior technology , equipment and 03:02.070 --> 03:04.479 processes are the Air Force's tools for 03:04.490 --> 03:06.770 dealing with contested logistics , but 03:06.779 --> 03:08.890 it's the wielder of those tools , the 03:08.890 --> 03:11.059 Air Force's true secret weapon that 03:11.070 --> 03:14.309 matter . Most contested 03:14.320 --> 03:17.330 logistics will challenge us in ways 03:17.339 --> 03:19.395 that we haven't been challenged in a 03:19.395 --> 03:22.889 long time while I can't predict exactly 03:22.899 --> 03:24.955 what the solution to every contested 03:24.955 --> 03:27.279 logistics problem set may be in front 03:27.289 --> 03:30.259 of us in the next 1015 , 20 years . I 03:30.270 --> 03:33.470 can say Airman will figure out how to 03:33.479 --> 03:35.535 solve the problem that's in front of 03:35.535 --> 03:37.646 him . They have to be given the tools 03:37.646 --> 03:39.312 to do it , but I've got great 03:39.312 --> 03:39.320 confidence they will .