OFW-9: Long-Range Contested Logistics
Fighter Pilot Podcast
E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On Future War' is a 12-part series exploring the evolving landscape of military strategy and defense technologies with a focus on the Indo-Pacific.
This ninth episode explores the vulnerability of "lines of communication." Little threatened, or changed, since the end of WWll, today's shipping lanes involve significant vulnerabilities when supporting an "away game" conflict. How can the U.S. address this challenge? Host Scott Chafian and guest Sal Mercogliano explore solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast. I am your host, Vincent Aiello, and this week brings you the ninth installment of On Future War, a monthly series from our friends at Authentic Media in cooperation with cubic defense. |
| 0:12.7 | On this episode, your usual On Future War host, Scott Chafian, and his guest, Dr. Saul McCogliano, host of the What's Going On with Shipping YouTube channel, |
| 0:22.1 | while they discuss long range contested logistics. Now, hold on. As you know, here on the show, |
| 0:28.1 | of course we enjoy the sexy topics like the latest fifth generation fighters and missiles |
| 0:32.5 | and high threat close air support. But look, none of that stuff lasts very long without a comprehensive |
| 0:38.6 | and protected logistics tale. And more often than not, that means shipping. The thing is, |
| 0:45.1 | shipping lanes, for the most part, have not really been threatened since the end of World War II, |
| 0:49.4 | allowing the logistics system we enjoy today where anything can be shipped from one end of the world to another |
| 0:54.7 | quickly and cheaply on gargantuan ships and giant ports. This system, however, involves vulnerabilities |
| 1:00.9 | not seen in the past. The elimination of redundancy means the loss of even one ship or the |
| 1:06.8 | closure of one megaport can have cascading effects throughout the supply chain. |
| 1:11.3 | And when you are supplying those high-speed fifth-generation fighters and missiles on the other |
| 1:15.4 | side of the Pacific Ocean, well, this can have devastating consequences. |
| 1:19.7 | How can the United States meet this challenge? |
| 1:22.0 | That's what we're discussing this week and more on this episode of On Future War. |
| 1:27.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:30.8 | As technologies and geopolitics change, so does the nature of warfare. Welcome back to On Future |
| 1:37.4 | War, a series sponsored by Cubic Defense that looks at emerging technologies and how they may |
| 1:43.1 | affect peer and near peer levellevel conflict in the future, |
| 1:46.8 | particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, with a specific focus on military tactics, operations, and strategy, |
| 1:54.0 | and their interaction with the other instruments of national security policy. |
| 1:58.5 | The future is now. |
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