Inside China’s Nascent, AI-Powered Military Logistics System

New America Senior Fellow Peter W. Singer wrote on China's nasceant AI-powered logistics system for Defense One's The China Intelligence:

兵马未动，粮草先行—"Before the troops and horses move, provisions and fodder must go first”—is the Chinese equivalent of Napoleon’s supposed saying that "An army marches on its stomach," or Omar Bradley’s admonition "Amateurs talk strategy, but professionals talk logistics.” The modern PLA is taking these lessons to heart with a series of efforts to build a  smart logistics system of the future, one that can supply its troops under fire in the next war. As described in People’s Daily, the effort incorporates technologies that range from a multi-domain sensing web to an AI-enabled predictive planning that matches resources to cargo drones and tracked UGV mules. The PLA is already testing each in plateau, border, and coastal exercises.

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