Michael Kidd, Kristin Olsen, Mridhula Bharathwaj

Abstract: Traditional military prepositioning relies on large, fixed depots or contracted sealift ships; these concentrate valuable materiel into a small number of targets vulnerable to precision strikes in a Western Pacific conflict. This paper argues that surviving high-intensity conflict requires shifting prepositioned sustainment from physical hardening toward economic denial. Suppose a distributed architecture, designated as… Read More