Leadership.
MG (R) Ed Dorman
Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations
MG (R) Ed Dorman serves as the Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations at the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC). A leader in strategic sustainment, logistics warfare, and adversary disruption, he ensures that sustainment is treated as a critical warfighting function in both conventional and irregular warfare environments.
During his 38-year military career, MG (R) Dorman served at every level in conventional and unconventional units globally including approximately 72 months over successive combat deployments. He commanded the 8th Theater Sustainment Command (INDOPACOM) and served as Director of Logistics & Engineering (J4) at CENTCOM, overseeing sustainment operations across the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, and Central Asia. He has shaped sustainment strategy at the highest levels, integrating Joint, Combined, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Industry (JC/I³) sustainment efforts into national defense strategy.
A recognized expert in contested logistics and sustainment resilience, MG (R) Dorman plays a critical role in advising and supporting the IWC:
• Ensuring resilient sustainment in contested environments to support U.S. and partner forces across all phases of irregular conflict, reinforcing Integrated Deterrence and IW force posture.
• Identifying, assessing, and disrupting adversary logistics kill chains, shaping asymmetric sustainment strategies that deny adversaries freedom of action and force them into unsupportable sustainment postures.
• Translating sustainment vulnerabilities into actionable mitigation strategies, equipping Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Industry (J/I³) partners with solutions that enable persistent logistics operations in irregular warfare.
• Refining global sustainment and logistics strategies through real-time assessments, ensuring that IWC-led regional and global initiatives contribute directly to IW and national security objectives.
• Bridging strategic sustainment challenges with operational execution, integrating sustainment into logistics education, wargaming, and force posture development, strengthening the Joint Force’s ability to compete and win in irregular warfare.
• Supporting IWC’s mission to institutionalize Irregular Warfare, ensuring sustainment and logistics are embedded as core enablers of influence, deterrence, and warfighting agility.
Beyond IWC, he serves as an advisor to the Army Science Board (ASB) on Contested Logistics, is an AUSA Leadership Fellow, a member of the Army Sustainment University (ASU) Board of Visitors, Member NDIA Logistics Management Division, & Vice Chair, NDTA Energy Committee. MG (R) Dorman holds a Master of Language Arts in German Language & Literature from the Johannes Guttenberg Universität, Mainz Germany and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School for National Resource Strategy.