Supply Chain: Wake Up; It is Critical to Military Success
Masters thesis — Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2014. Full text: https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA621695
Arguments
Supply Chain: Wake Up; It is Critical to Military Success
"The line between disorder and order lies in logistics" — the thesis documents that the world's most expensive logistics enterprise is governed by ambiguity and personalities, not ownership.
The DOD's global supply chain has no single owner — TRANSCOM and the Defense Logistics Agency form the foundation of the execution mechanism but neither owns the entire process, and the governing legislation, directives, and instructions are ambiguous enough to breed inefficiency. The fix: clear, well-defined roles and responsibilities, a single designated process owner, and one integrated IT system under that owner.
Why it matters
"The line between disorder and order lies in logistics" — the thesis documents that the world's most expensive logistics enterprise is governed by ambiguity and personalities, not ownership.
Use when: If no one owns the whole process, no one can fix it — ambiguous governance doesn't produce flexibility, it produces drift.