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Contracted Logistics Support and Technology During Information Age Transformation - The Solution! or the National Strategic Trap?

Abstract : One of the many solutions available for transformation and reducing the cost of operations and ownership, has been the movement to contracted logistics support (CLS). In several ways this supports and is supported by Joint Vision (JV) 2010, JV 2020, and the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). While offering assistance, CLS also has some included risks which may have been weighed at some levels of decision making, and still possibly not fully addressed through discourse with and by those that are represented by the decision makers the public. The events of September 11th, 2001 highlight and emphasize several of these. Additionally, during the international war on terrorism there is the realization that all institution entities (government and non-government) become targets of an opposition group. Questions addressed in this paper that might need resolution are: Does long term world demographics pose a problem with current International Law interpretations regarding conflict and war? Does the use of public key infrastructure, public key encryption (PKI/PKE) potentially cause a shift in protected status of units and facilities with respect to standing in International Law? Does the shift to contracted support for military logistics functions place individuals and organizations in positions of additional unacceptable risk with respect to conflict and war? Does the implementation of new information technology ideas necessarily augur improved solution? Will there be unintended consequences that result from the new applications of technology?