This is a must-read for military planners and supply chain sectors. Throughout history, logistics has consistently proved as pivotal during campaigning as the strategy itself and can rightly claim to be a decisive factor. Very few armies with strong combat power support have ever been defeated. Combat units are totally dependent on re-supply of food and equipment and people and people work better when they are fed, dry and have had enough sleep. Yet command staff and force planners often fail to take account of such basics and logistics only ever receives scant attention in the literature. When going to war, you need toilet paper and bombs in the same place at the same time. It’s time to bridge the gap between military precision and business efficiency.
Publication c. January 2025
ISBN: 9781912440672 pbk / 9781912440689 hbk/ 9781912440696 EPUB
Professionals Talk Logistics: Sustaining Strategy and Operations
Foreword by GENERAL GUS PERNA
Introduction by JON KLUG AND STEVE LEONARD
PART I: PAST: FROM OXEN TO STUDEBAKERS
Chapter 1: Horses, Camels, or Oxen? How the Great Captains Defined the Art of Logistics STEVE LEONARD
Chapter 2: Does Logistics Drive Strategy, or Does Strategy Drive Logistics? JOE WALDEN
Chapter 3: What Ever Happened to the Arsenal of Democracy? A Brief History of the Defense Industrial Base before, during, and after World War II TIM GILHOOL AND SYDNEY SMITH
Chapter 4: Strategy Short of War RON GRENIERI
Chapter 5: The Four Logistical Operations RICHARD KILLBLANE
PART II: PRESENT: SUSTAINING CONTEMPORARY WAR
Chapter 6: An Armor Officer’s Perspective on Logistical Literacy RICH CREED
Chapter 7: The Operational Level of War and Logistics KEVIN BENSON
Chapter 8: At the End of a 6,000-Mile Screwdriver FRANCIS PARK
Chapter 9: Logistics, Operational Warfare, and the War in Ukraine JIM GREER
PART III: FUTURE: BRAVE NEW LOGISTICAL WORLD4
Chapter 10: Toward a Theory of the Supply Chain Environment MATT EVERS
Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence and Logistics on the Modern Battlefield. STACY TOMIC, MICHAEL POSEY, AND PAUL LUSHENKO
Chapter 12: Darwin Strategic Bastion MICK RYAN