GLOBAL FORCE 2026 — A year after the head of Army Material Command said there were potential plans to sunset the service’s only floating Army Prepositioned Stock (APS), the “jury’s still out” on whether or not the APS will be fully disbanded, though the Army has started to offload much of the floating cache’s equipment to friendly territory in the Indo-Pacific.
Last year, Lt. Gen Christopher Mohan told Breaking Defense the Army was considering jettisoning the mobile cache in the Indo-Pacific, known as APS-3, in favor of dispersing the equipment throughout the INDOPACOM theater, noting the idea was “pre-decisional” at the time. The reasoning behind the potential decision derived from the Army “doubling down on the INDOPACOM from a theater standpoint,” he…
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