"Can A U.S. Army Brigade Be Able To Fight A Major...." Topic

…. War For An Entire Week Without Resupply?

"The service is worried that units have grown dangerously reliant on logistics chains that might not exist during a major conflict.

Concerns are growing throughout the U.S. military about the potential difficulties in rapidly deploying large amounts of personnel and equipment into a theater of operations under fire during a major conflict and whether there will be any bases of operation to support them once they get there. Now, the U.S. Army says it is looking for ways to ensure that individual brigade combat teams will have supplies, especially fuel and water, to be able to keep fighting for up to a week without a guaranteed supply chain.

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Aundre Piggee, the service's Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, publicly announced the goal, and explained some immediate hurdles, at an Association of the U.S. Army-sponsored Institute of Land Warfare breakfast on Nov. 6, 2018. At present, the service only expects combat brigades, which typically have between 3,000 and 5,000 individuals and hundreds of vehicles and other pieces of major equipment, to be able to sustain independent operations for a maximum of three days…."
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Ugh, so tripling the stocks of food, water, ammo, and fuel, plus tripling the number of transport trucks to haul it all around?

I think I just heard my friend in the Army start cussing in all the languages, and start learning more languages just for profanity.

Doubtful, I suspect.

If in the Euro theater, they can probably at least scrounge for water. and do with limited food.

Ammo and fuel will be the main issues.

A serious army brings its own logistics. Everything else is a joke. Deploying troops but being unable to support them is suicide.

I don't know, it worked well for the Japanese on Guadalcanal.

Ugh, so tripling the stocks of food, water, ammo, and fuel, plus tripling the number of transport trucks to haul it all around?

Which in itself adds more people and vehicles which need more supplies…

Supply-wise, American forces have a reputation of being "spoiled." Our soldiers live very well compared to other nations'. Especially REMF's.

I doubt any formation can remain in major combat for anywhere near a week without resupply. Ammunition will get eaten up much faster than people think and isn't something you can just scrounge.