Sustain the Fight: From Support to Force Multiplier

A Junior Officer's Guide to Brigade Support Operations in Large-Scale Combat

David A. Wallace

• Publisher: Casemate
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781636246703
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Redefines military logistics as a decisive, combat-focused element shaping victory in modern multi-domain warfare.

Sustain the Fight transforms military logistics from administrative support into strategic warfare. This combat-focused manual shatters the dangerous illusion that logistics officers are “support personnel” operating safely in rear areas, revealing instead their proper role as lethality enablers whose decisions determine victory or defeat in modern warfare.

Through four intensive phases, the book addresses the most critical vulnerability in American military preparedness. While logistics officers studied peacetime procedures, adversaries spent decades analyzing U.S. supply dependencies to weaponize them for strategic advantage. Enemy forces now target logistics networks with the same precision previously reserved for capitals, conducting cyberattacks, space-based surveillance, and precision strikes against fuel depots, ammunition storage, and digital systems.

The manual develops “logistics warriors” capable of sustaining multi-domain operations when everything goes wrong simultaneously—when cyberattacks corrupt every digital system, when GPS is jammed, when supply routes are interdicted, and when enemy forces specifically hunt logistics personnel for elimination. Each chapter opens with high-intensity combat scenarios, integrates mathematical frameworks for tactical decision-making, and provides immediately applicable Standard Operating Procedures.

Key transformations include mastering mission command when communications fail, fighting and winning in cyberspace while sustaining physical operations, building teams that can operate under direct fire, and conducting offensive logistics operations that turn enemy advantages into friendly opportunities. The book prepares officers for warfare spanning from cyberspace to the edge of space against threats involving artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biological warfare. This is logistics warfare for the 21st century, where warriors sustain the fight regardless of what enemies deploy against them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• How to Read/Use This Book
• The Three Critical Integration Mnemonics
• Reading Pathways for Different Use Cases
• Prologue The 72-Hour Truth
• Chapter 1 - The Reality of Large-Scale Combat Sustainment
• Chapter 2 - Your Role in the Sustainment Enterprise
• Chapter 3 - Integration is the Weapon System
• Chapter 4 - Forecasting in Chaos
• Chapter 5 - Distribution Management as a Staff Effort
• Chapter 6 - The Common Operational Picture Problem
• Chapter 7 - Medical-Evacuation Integration
• Chapter 8 - Casualty Estimation and Replacement Pipeline
• Chapter 9 - Rear Command Post Operations and the Brigade Support Area
• Chapter 10 - Protection-Enabler Synchronization
• Chapter 11 - Reconstitution and Culmination
• Chapter 12 - Building the Integrated Sustainment System
• Epilogue Note to Readers
• Comprehensive Glossary
• Comprehensive Acronyms Guide