The Actual Requirement for and Supplying of Troops with Conventional Ammunition in Present-Day Operations

The emergence of nuclear weapons has necessitated fundamental changes in the organization and comprehensive support of operations. The nature of the majority of these changes has been studied in sufficient depth, and appropriate practical conclusions and recommendations have been recorded in official documents and manuals.
However, there are still many problems that have not in fact been solved, even though they are extremely important. Thus, the requirement of the troops for conventional ammunition has so far been poorly studied. It would be difficult to affirm that the existing levels of mobile reserves of ammunition, its disposition, and the organization of its delivery fully meet the requirements of conducting a battle or an operation. In addition, at the present time, when the need has arisen for working out the conduct of operations without the employment of nuclear weapons, everything that pertains to supplying the troops with conventional ammunition urgently requires a well-grounded solution.