Joint Sustainment Function and Operational Overload “Sustainment” is linked to strategic, operational and tactical objectives. . General Eisenhower's Operation OVERLORD, the Allied cross-Channel air and sea invasion of France during World War II, provides an excellent case study demonstrating the successful integration of the principles and spirit of the joint warfighting function “Sustainability”. OVERLORD required synchronizing, coordinating and integrating coalition forces' logistical capabilities, equipment as well as civilian manufacturing capabilities to achieve the strategic end state (e.g. defeat of Germany). This article will review the purpose and definition of joint sustainment, its logistics planning imperatives and principles, and examine how Eisenhower and his planners integrated these imperatives and principles into Operation OVERLORD. as well as the provision of logistics and personnel services necessary to sustain and extend operations through mission accomplishment and force redeployment. Joint Publication 4-0 further states: “Effective joint logistics planning identifies future needs and proposes solutions; this requires joint logisticians to understand the commander's intent and concept of operations (CONOPS). Logisticians use seven principles in their planning at the strategic, operational, or tactical level of war to ensure that operations are logistically sustainable. These principles are responsiveness, simplicity, flexibility, economy, accessibility,...... middle of paper ......ttp://www.war44.com/misc/images/5 / WWII_Mulberry_harbour.jpg. Accessed March 25, 2014. JP 4-0, xvi. FA Osmanski, Logistical planning for Operation OVERLORD. Military Review Vol. XXIX n° 8, (November 1949), consulted at http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p124201coll1/id903 (consulted October 23, 2013), p.41. Krysa, John C., Operational planning in the Normandy campaign, 1944, p.25-26. The ships were used as sorties to deposit forces on the beach and return to England for additional forces, supplies and equipment. Bowden, Mark, D-Day: June 6, 1944, 2002, p.5. The aircraft industry built 800 planes in 1939 and reached 8,000 per month in 1943. Ibid., 21. Matthew D. Cox, “Virtual Library Logistics: Logistics Quotations,” “Logistics World,” September 4, 1999. Accessed on February 21, 1999. 2014), http://www.logisticsworld.com/logistics/quotations.htm.

Essay / Joint Sustainment Function and Operational Overload “Sustainment” is linked to strategic, operational and tactical objectives. . General Eisenhower's Operation OVERLORD, the Allied cross-Channel air and sea invasion of France during World War II, provides an excellent case study demonstrating the successful integration of the principles and spirit of the joint warfighting function “Sustainability”. OVERLORD required synchronizing, coordinating and integrating coalition forces' logistical capabilities, equipment as well as civilian manufacturing capabilities to achieve the strategic end state (e.g. defeat of Germany). This article will review the purpose and definition of joint sustainment, its logistics planning imperatives and principles, and examine how Eisenhower and his planners integrated these imperatives and principles into Operation OVERLORD. as well as the provision of logistics and personnel services necessary to sustain and extend operations through mission accomplishment and force redeployment. Joint Publication 4-0 further states: “Effective joint logistics planning identifies future needs and proposes solutions; this requires joint logisticians to understand the commander's intent and concept of operations (CONOPS). Logisticians use seven principles in their planning at the strategic, operational, or tactical level of war to ensure that operations are logistically sustainable. These principles are responsiveness, simplicity, flexibility, economy, accessibility,...... middle of paper ......ttp://www.war44.com/misc/images/5 / WWII_Mulberry_harbour.jpg. Accessed March 25, 2014. JP 4-0, xvi. FA Osmanski, Logistical planning for Operation OVERLORD. Military Review Vol. XXIX n° 8, (November 1949), consulted at http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p124201coll1/id903 (consulted October 23, 2013), p.41. Krysa, John C., Operational planning in the Normandy campaign, 1944, p.25-26. The ships were used as sorties to deposit forces on the beach and return to England for additional forces, supplies and equipment. Bowden, Mark, D-Day: June 6, 1944, 2002, p.5. The aircraft industry built 800 planes in 1939 and reached 8,000 per month in 1943. Ibid., 21. Matthew D. Cox, “Virtual Library Logistics: Logistics Quotations,” “Logistics World,” September 4, 1999. Accessed on February 21, 1999. 2014), http://www.logisticsworld.com/logistics/quotations.htm.

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