To start with, today we’ll be talking about sustainment in general, defining the warfighting function and talking about integration and synchronization.

With me today are two individuals who are perfectly suited to debate this topic:

• Paul Schlimm, the Acting Director for the Department of Sustainment and Force Management at CGSC and
• Nils Erickson, the course author for the Sustainment Series for the Command and General Staff Officer’s Course