Campaign of Learning

The Defense Logistics Agency created its Campaign of Learning to promote a shared understanding throughout the joint logistics enterprise of today’s rapidly changing and contested logistics environment and to capitalize on the strengths and capabilities of numerous organizations involved in logistics operations. The campaign includes white papers highlighting strategic issues, Warfighter Talks featuring presentations from defense leaders, and a curated reading list on topics like supply chain management, data analytics, risk management and more. These news briefs highlight previously published white papers and recent Warfighter Talks.

White Papers

DLA's white papers are published in the agency's flagship publication, Loglines, as well as other journals and publications that highlight logistics.

Loglines White Papers

April 1, 2025

Support at the Forward Edge of the Battlefield: Lessons Learned

DLA White Paper 25-2, February 2025: Achieving resilient logistics in large-scale combat operations requires regionalized sustainment, integration of allied and partner capabilities through collective logistics, as well as enhanced command, control
April 1, 2025

Modernizing Defense Logistics: Converging Kill Chains and Supply Chains

To maintain readiness and lethality in a rapidly evolving global environment, the DLA must leverage new technologies like AI and machine learning to create digitally interoperable supply chains that are as agile and responsive as kill chains,
May 1, 2025

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Illuminate Supply Chain Risk

DLA White Paper 25-3, March 2025: DLA is strategically adopting artificial intelligence to revolutionize supply chain risk management, enhance operational resilience, address vulnerabilities, and ultimately ensure mission readiness by leveraging

White Paper Summaries

Enterprisewide | April 10, 2025

DLA focusing on digital interoperability for decision advantage

Two Defense Logistics Agency leaders point to digital interoperability as the solution to gaining decision advantage on the battlefield and beyond in a white paper published in National Defense magazine.
Enterprisewide | March 13, 2025

DLA applying AI to supply chain risk management, warfighter readiness

Approaching supply chain risk management with a proactive, data-centric mindset and artificial intelligence will ensure DLA provides stable warfighter support and reduces the impacts of supply chain disruptions.
Enterprisewide | March 6, 2025

Battlefield logistics: Collective capabilities key to allied success

Resilient logistics capabilities will be vital to operational success in future large-scale combat operations, according to a new eight-page white paper titled "Support at the Forward Edge of the Battlefield: Lessons Learned."
Enterprisewide | Nov. 21, 2024

Contested logistics white paper: DLA must adapt sustainment methods now

The concepts and capabilities that have enabled the Defense Logistics Agency to sustain the nation’s warfighters must be adapted to ensure continued success, agency leaders say in a new white paper.
Enterprisewide | March 21, 2025

White paper: War reserves should include tactical energy storage, batteries

Batteries and tactical energy storage should be included in pre-positioned war reserve materiel to ensure today’s modernized joint force is electronically equipped for success, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime officials say in a white paper
Headquarters | April 1, 2025

Contested logistics white paper: US military logistics no longer unconte...

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has forced the U.S. and NATO allies to confront the hard truth that the European continent is no longer a secure, uncontested environment for military logistics, according to a new white paper.

Warfighter Talks

Enterprisewide | June 4, 2025

Navy admiral to logisticians: Operational environment presents new challenges and opportunities

The Department of Defense stands at a pivotal moment in history in which the global strategic environment is shaped by unprecedented challenges and opportunities, the Joint Staff vice director for operations told Defense Logistics Agency leaders and
Enterprisewide | April 3, 2025

Marine Corps Deputy Commandant to logisticians: Deter, set the theater for potential conflicts

This agency is a strategic and critical enabler in the pursuit of setting the theater to deter and posture military forces to prevail, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics told Defense Logistics Agency employees March
Enterprisewide | Jan. 30, 2025

Retired general to logisticians: The next war requires a new strategy

War strategies and groundwork of United States adversaries in the Pacific have set conditions for a battle unlike any in the past, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Defense Logistics Agency employees Jan. 23.
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