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MG (R) Ed Dorman

Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations

Email: edorman@irregularwarfarecenter.org

Mr. Dorman serves as the Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations at the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC). A premier leader in strategic sustainment, logistics warfare, and adversary disruption, he shapes the operational frameworks that ensure sustainment is integrated as a critical warfighting function across both conventional and irregular warfare environments. In this capacity, He plays a vital role advising the Center to ensure resilient sustainment in contested environments, identify and disrupt adversary logistics kill chains, and translate critical vulnerabilities into actionable mitigation strategies for Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Industry (JI3) partners. He brings nearly four decades of elite institutional and operational excellence to the Center, bridging high-level strategic challenges with real-world operational execution.

Dorman’s foundational expertise is rooted in a distinguished 38-year military career, during which he served at every echelon within conventional and unconventional units globally, including 72 months over successive combat deployments. At the highest strategic levels of command, he led the 8th Theater Sustainment Command within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and served as the Director of Logistics & Engineering (J4) at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). Throughout these assignments, he managed massive enterprise-wide sustainment operations across the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, and Central Asia, successfully integrating Joint, Combined, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Industry efforts into national defense strategy.

Following his military retirement, he seamlessly transitioned his strategic insights to senior advisory positions across key defense and transportation institutions. Beyond his primary work with the IWC, he serves as an expert advisor to the Army Science Board on Contested Logistics, an Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Leadership Fellow, and a member of the Army Sustainment University Board of Visitors. He also actively contributes to the defense logistics landscape as a member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Logistics Management Division and as the Vice Chair of the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA) Energy Committee.

A highly credentialed scholar-practitioner, he holds a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School for National Resource Strategy. He also holds a Master of Language Arts in German Language & Literature from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. His career reflects a continuous dedication to embedding sustainment and logistics as core enablers of global influence, strategic deterrence, and warfighting agility.