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Professionals Talk Logistics: Sustaining Strategy and Operations

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

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  • 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

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