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A ‘Logistics in War’ primer: Logistics and the art of command
By David Beaumont. For commanders, the objective and purpose of logistics is to establish and subsequently sustain the combat effectiveness of forces. Logistics shapes strategic and tactical decision making, and is an influence on the conduct of the operational art.… Continue reading
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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician – Part Two
By David Beaumont. This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. The session was titled ‘The Future Logistician’. The first half can be found here. What we need… Continue reading
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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One
By David Beaumont. This transcript is the first half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. The session was titled ‘The Future Logistician’. So, how did we get here? What does it mean… Continue reading
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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations – is it time for a new ‘national support agenda’?
By David Beaumont. This is the final post from the LIW archives on strategic logistics and logistics challenges prior to the Australia & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. In 2016, the Australian Government released its 2016 Defence White Paper and… Continue reading
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Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics
By Hayden Marshall. In 2017, Logistics In War was privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish this essay. It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere.… Continue reading
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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics
By Jessica McCarthy. The third in a series of posts relevant for senior logisticians as they consider the future at the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. In this article, US Army logistician Jessica McCarthy examines a challenging, contemporaneous,… Continue reading
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Surviving your time as a military logistician
by Hayden Marshall. Ed. – With the Australian & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference in one week, LIW will revisit several recent posts on logistics at the strategic (and enterprise) level, or within joint organisations. It is no wonder that… Continue reading
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The strategic logistician and professional possibility
By David Beaumont. During a logistics course in late 2017, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic ‘future logistician’ might be.[1] It was a difficult question to answer without straying into explanations about strategic… Continue reading
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‘The furthest, the weakest’ – how logistics and distance influence national power
By David Beaumont. This article is part two of a series of posts examining logistics and strategic competition. The nature and characteristics of strategic competition has been given new life in recent months. Theorists, writers, military professionals and many others… Continue reading
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Technology and what lies beneath – the full cost of modernisation
By David Beaumont. You needn’t venture far to find an article or military concept which in some way promotes technology and capability modernisation as a means of addressing the next, albeit hypothesised, battlefield challenge. Great advances in robotics and the… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 