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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
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Every logistician must write
By David Beaumont. Logistics in War has been online for nearly one and a half years. This post, shared with the Australian Army’s ‘Cove’, gives three reasons why military professionals should write. It is based upon experiences learned from those… Continue reading
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Choosing forces in a crisis – logistics and the art of strategic decision making
By David Beaumont. ‘The quartermasters claim on history may, at its root, lie in the effect of logistics on timing …… the longer a nation requires to bring its force to bear, the more time its enemies have to seize… Continue reading
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Australian Army Logistics Training Centre Fiction and Imagery Competition
The driving visions and ideas for Australian Army logistics development have been remarkably consistent for some time. If this same vision is applied, now, it is likely any future modernisation will fail to keep at pace with technology and trend,… Continue reading
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Defining strategic competition – when logistics becomes a strategic weapon
By David Beaumont. We are in an era of strategic competition. Then again, we have always been in an era of strategic competition. Recently Western militaries have contended that adversaries, real and potential, do not always distinguish peace and war.… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians
By David Beaumont. Through researching the way in which the ADF has prepared and mobilised its logistics capabilities at the strategic level, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. These officials… Continue reading
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Training the Australian Army’s logistics officers – a new LIW series
By David Beaumont. Logistics in War has contended with the topic of training, and the preparation of logisticians for a variety of operational and garrison possibilities. Readers have been the beneficiary of insights – but also asked poignant questions – in… Continue reading
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LIW Editorial – taking the national support base ….. beyond the nation
By David Beaumont. As a military logistician, the idea of integrating logistics as part of a coalition is hardly revelatory. Most Western militaries have spent the last twenty years of operations in lockstep with one another accepting that there are… Continue reading
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Have a spare 30 minutes?
By David Beaumont. Joe Byerly, in an excellent post at his blog ‘From the Green Notebook’, reminds us of the importance of continual reading. He promotes 20-30 minutes of reading in a day (or night) as part of a ‘consistent… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 