The Foundation of Operational Logistics
The term Operational Level of War or in short Operational Level has emerged in the West in the 1982 revision of the US Army Field Manual FM 100 5. This term was redefined in the 1986 version of that manual and since then it has been under continuous examination and review, and a source for debate amongst commanders and military scholars in particular in conjunction with the related term: Operational Art [1] The 1997 edition of that manual [2] introduced a new term Operational Level of Conflict and the 2012 edition [3] (now called ADRP 3 0) defines yet another term: Unified Land Operations as activities aimed at "seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations." The logistics that supports and sustains these operations is called operational logistics (OpLog)