The Russia-Ukraine war has been a drone operator’s dream and a quartermaster’s nightmare. Supply trucks and depots have been pounded by a nearly endless stream of drones and long-range munitions. Resupply of front-line units means running a gauntlet of fire.

For the first time since World War II, U.S. Army logisticians must contemplate a grim future where supply units no longer have the luxury of assuming that the Air Force can shield them from aerial threats. Nor that being behind the front lines will keep them safe from enemy bombardment.

“The assumption that logistics operates in the safety of a rear area is no longer valid,” Capt. Stephanie Torres told Defense News. “Sustainment formations are targeted with the same precision and lethality as maneuver units.”

“These units must train

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