It is the purpose of this sustainment brochure to focus on sustainment operations during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (ODS) and to act as a follow-on document to the deployment brochure. As such, the sustainment brochure describes the theater's CSS structure at Corps and EAC, discusses sustainment as observed in key functional support areas, and provides a source of supporting reference data that can be used in further examinations of CSS operations during ODS. Contents include: the sustainment challenge, organization for sustainment, sustainment functions, war reserve stocks, modernization efforts during ODS, industrial base, security assistance programs in SWA during ODS, logistics automation, and various appendixes A-H.

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