Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mark Faulkner shares powerful insights on military logistics and leadership development, highlighting how education, collaboration, and adaptability are shaping the future of defense logistics. From his Marine Corps experience to his role at the Institute for Defense and Business, he underscores why investing in leaders today is essential for tomorrow’s operational success.

Modern logistics and supply chain management are being reshaped by disruption, digital transformation, and contested environments. This episode explores how data sharing, supply chain visibility, and collaborative partnerships between government and industry are critical to building resilient, adaptive logistics operations in an increasingly complex global landscape.

“Logistics must be treated as a weapon system.” That’s the central takeaway from Brigadier General Jeff Kent’s conversation on Logistics Lens—and it signals a fundamental shift in how the U.S. military must think about sustainment. No longer just a support function, logistics is becoming a decisive advantage in modern warfare. As adversaries increasingly target supply chains and infrastructure, success will depend on the ability not just to operate in contested environments, but to actively disrupt them.

In this episode of The Logistics Lens, host Kevin Sampels sits down with Joe Brooks to explore a transformative concept reshaping military supply chains: the Regional Sustainment Framework (RSF).

At a time when global logistics networks are under increasing strain—from geopolitical tensions to fragile supply chains—the discussion offers a timely look at how the military is rethinking sustainment.