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  • Rethinking logistics – challenges of the modern battlefield

    At the end of 2016 the Chief of the Australian Army, through conversations with senior logisticians, asked the logistic community to rethink assumptions made about logistics. This challenge, a part of other force structure reforms in Army, formed the basis… Continue reading

    Rethinking logistics – challenges of the modern battlefield

  • I, Logistician …..

    ‘Never make a specialist of the logistician … ‘ –        Duncan Ballantine, 1947[1] There is nothing more an anathema to effective logistics in war than a military logistician who is an isolated, introverted, technical specialist.  Logistics is not a technical… Continue reading

  • Introducing “Logistics In War”

    ‘The conclusion is irresistible that the military themselves know next to nothing about logistics’. – United States Marine Corps Colonel George C Thorpe, Pure Logistics, 1917. Welcome to ‘Logistics In War’, a blog dedicated to exploring logistics and its impact… Continue reading

    Introducing “Logistics In War”