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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
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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
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 