ADP 4-0 Sustainment (2019. 7. 31.)

Description

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This publication supersedes ADP 4-0 and ADRP 4-0, dated 31 July 2012.

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Foreword

Seldom will all logistics principles exert equal influence; usually one or two will dominate in any given situation. Identifying those principles that have priority in a specific situation is essential to establishing effective support. —JP 4-0, Doctrine for Logistics Support of Joint Operations, Sep 25, 1992.

The Army’s contribution to joint operations is unified land operations executed through decisive action and guided by the Army’s approach to command and control, mission command. ADP 4-0, Sustainment, is the Army’s principal sustainment doctrine that captures the most critical lessons from a decade of continuous, small scale, land combat. In this edition, we retain lessons of the past but also look to a future where large-scale combat operations against peer threats is a distinct possibility. This publication builds on the idea that success requires fully integrating Army sustainment operations with the efforts of unified action partners, across all domains, to achieve enduring outcomes.

ADP 4-0 provides a common operational doctrine for sustaining Army forces operating across the full range of military operations in multiple domains of air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace. Army forces not engaged in ongoing operations are focused on their readiness for future operations that require sustainment, training and professional education built on doctrine. ADP 4-0 informs the preparation, sustainment, and execution of operations. All leaders need to understand and be familiar with it.

The central idea of unified land operations is that, as part of a joint force, Army forces seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain a position of relative advantage in order to shape the operational environment, prevent conflict, consolidate gains, and win our nation’s wars.

ADP 4-0 is a continuation of the doctrine established in ADP 3-0, Operations. It describes the sustainment warfighting function and discusses the principles of sustainment. It discusses the elements of sustainment— logistics, financial management, personnel services and health service support and describes the sustainment of unified action. ADP 4-0 discusses how sustainment provides operational reach, freedom of action and endurance in the execution of unified land operations. It emphasizes the connection between the strategic support area and operational and tactical sustainment actions.

ADP 4-0 serves as the sustainment doctrine for the Army. Its central idea, adapted to the unique conditions of each operational environment, represents how the Army sustains unified action. It will permeate our sustainment doctrine, our training, and our leader professional development programs now and into the future.

RODNEY D. FOGG
MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY
COMMANDING

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Preface

ADP 4-0, Sustainment, expands the discussion on the overarching guidance on sustainment in ADP 3-0, Operations. It constitutes the Army’s view of how it supports prompt and sustained operations on land and sets the foundation for developing the other principles, tactics, techniques, and procedures detailed in subordinate doctrine publications. It also forms the basis for Army training and education system curricula.

The principal audience for ADP 4-0 is all Army Soldiers and civilians who provide sustainment support as well as those members of the Army profession who depend on and receive that support. Sustainment commanders and staffs of Army headquarters should also refer to applicable joint or multinational doctrine concerning support to joint or multinational forces. Trainers and educators throughout the Army will also use this publication as the foundation for training and education.

To comprehend the doctrine contained in ADP 4-0, readers must first understand the fundamentals of unified land operations described in ADP 3-0. They must also understand the language of tactics and the fundamentals of Army operations described in FM 3-0, Operations.

Commanders, staffs, and subordinates ensure that their decisions and actions comply with applicable United States, international, and in some cases host nation laws and regulations. Commanders at all levels ensure that their Soldiers operate in accordance with the law of war and the rules of engagement. (See FM 27-10.)

ADP 4-0 uses joint terms where applicable. Selected joint and Army terms and definitions appear in both the glossary and the text. Terms for which ADP 4-0 is the proponent publication (the authority) are italicized in the text and are marked with an asterisk (*) in the glossary. Terms and definitions for which ADP 4-0 is the proponent publication are boldfaced in the text. For other definitions shown in the text, the term is italicized and the number of the proponent publication follows the definition.

ADP 4-0 applies to the Regular Army, Army National Guard of the United States, the Army National Guard while in the service of the United States, and the United States Army Reserve unless otherwise stated.

United States Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) is the proponent for this publication. The preparing agency is the G-3/5/7 Doctrine Division, United States Army Combined Arms Support Command.