tl;dr: The US Army's logistics system, optimized for permissive counterinsurgency environments with large static bases and uncontested supply lines, is dangerously vulnerable in a peer conflict where drones, precision fires, and pervasive sensing have eliminated the safe rear area—as demonstrated by Russian convoy failures in Ukraine. The author argues the Army must shift from centralized hub-and-spoke sustainment to dispersed, mobile, signature-managed nodes with organic air defense, up-armored vehicles, and autonomous resupply platforms. Most critically, sustainment must be elevated culturally and budgetarily to a primary warfighting function, since in industrial warfare the logistical "tail" is now the enemy's primary target.