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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA
be procured from foreign countries and in such instances the logisticians
may have to negotiate with representative of foreign countries and to
enter into agreements with friendly countries for the supply of weapons
and ammunitions.
“Logistics considerations belong not only in the highest
echelons of military planning during the process of
preparation of war and for specific wartime operations, but
may well become the controlling element with relation to
timing and successful operation.”

Adm OC Badger,USN

Naval logistics covers the full range of logistics operations in support
of the functioning of the Navy smoothly in peace and at war. Levels at
which logistic support can be provided could be categorised as follows: 90

Strategic Logistics

Encompasses a particular nation’s ability to deploy and sustain its
operating forces in executing the national military strategy and hence
linked to a nation’s industrial base which may include the nation’s
manufacturing, agricultural, transportation and health service sectors.
The determination of strategic requirements, procurement, planning
logistics aspects of regeneration capability, central storage and bulk
distribution are all military strategic logistics functions.

Operational Logistics

The movement of logistics into, within and out of theatre; establishment
of logistics bases; the apportionment and allocation of logistics between
subordinate commands; and the protection of logistics bases on
land and along lines of support. It basically involves coordinating and
providing intra-theatre logistics resources to operating forces supporting
activities required to sustain campaigns and major operations within a
theatre and it is also the level at which joint logistics responsibilities and
arrangements are coordinated. It provides linkage to strategic level and
enables us to succeed at the tactical level.

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