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07 December 2020 ATP 5-0.2-1 247 Appendix G Sustainment Planning Factors This appendix describes the principles of sustainment and sustainment planning, execution, and logistics. It also describes associated personnel services and health service support. PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINMENT G-1. This section is derived from ADP 4-0. G-2. The sustainment principles are essential to maintaining combat power, enabling strategic and operational reach, and providing Army forces with endurance. Integration is combining all of the sustainment elements within operations assuring unity of command and effort (ADP 4-0). Army forces integrate sustainment with joint forces and multinational operations to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects from each Service and national resources. Anticipation is the ability to foresee events and requirements and initiate necessary actions that most appropriately satisfy a response without waiting for operations orders or fragmentary orders (ADP 4-0). Sustainment commanders and staffs visualize future operations, identify required support, and start the process of acquiring the sustainment that best supports an operation. Responsiveness is the ability to react to changing requirements and respond to meet the needs to maintain support (ADP 4-0). Through responsive sustainment, commanders maintain operational focus and pressure, set the tempo of friendly operations to prevent exhaustion, replace ineffective units, and extend operational reach. Simplicity relates to processes and procedures to minimize the complexity of sustainment (ADP 4-0). Clarity of tasks, standardized and interoperable procedures, and clearly defined command relationships contribute to simplicity. Economy is providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner that enables the commander to employ all assets to the greatest effect possible (ADP 4-0). Survivability is all aspects of protecting personnel, weapons, and supplies while simultaneously deceiving the enemy (JP 3-34). Survivability is a quality or capability of military forces that permits them to avoid or withstand hostile actions or environmental conditions while retaining the ability to fulfill their primary mission. Continuity is the uninterrupted provision of sustainment across all levels of war (ADP 4-0). Continuity is achieved through joint interdependence, linked sustainment organizations, a strategic to tactical level distribution system, and integrated information systems. Improvisation is the ability to adapt sustainment operations to unexpected situations or circumstances affecting a mission (ADP 4-0). It includes creating, arranging, or fabricating resources to meet requirements. It may also involve changing or creating methods that adapt to changing operational environments. G-3. Army sustainment comprises 4 components with 16 elements, as depicted in table G-1 on page 248.