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John Sattely is an active duty Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who served at USCENTCOM as a Strategic Logistics Planner and managed the Iran family of plans from 2019-2021. During that time, he forward deployed to assist the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia following the September 2019 attacks on the Saudi Aramco oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais. He is the currently the Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program at Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, FL. He is also a 2019 graduate of the Naval War College.
Integrating logistics and engineering into Middle East deterrence
As the Pentagon funnels more military assets and capabilities into the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command theater, U.S. commanders in the Middle East must now adjust their strategy using an economy of force approach. They need to achieve security and deterrence outcomes by proverbially “doing more with less,” including considering new and creative approaches to achieving results for regional deterrence, such as integrating theater logistics and engineering capabilities more prominently into the deterrence campaign.
