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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. In 2016, the Australian Government released its 2016 Defence White Paper and the supplemental Defence Industry Policy Statement. Industry Statements signify Government intent to Australian Defence industry, and like strategic policy, combine hyperbole with requirements for change.… Continue reading
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Underpinning asymmetric advantage: USAF airlift when strategic mobility is at risk
By Jobie Turner. The true asymmetric advantage the US military possess is the capability and capacity of its logistics. The supply and transportation means at the disposal of the joint force have great breadth and depth. US Transportation Command, in… Continue reading
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A Logistics in War Primer: how we make a sustainable and balanced military force
The first LIW Primer – The Arm and the Spear. Logistics in the design of the balanced force. Continue reading
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Logistics and the strangling of strategy – from the LIWArchives
By David Beaumont, originally posted 22nd April 2017. Logistics has long been recognised as vital to a force, but when inefficient a constraint on that force’s freedom to manoeuvre. However, the impact of logistics on strategy is just as significant… Continue reading
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Six strategic challenges – fourth generation warfare and fifth generation equipment
By Hayden Marshall. In part one and two of ‘Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics’ Air Commodore Hayden Marshall describes how digital disruption and cyber threats are likely to change Defence logistics in the future. In part three, the challenges… Continue reading
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Six strategic challenges – global logistics integration and the state of professional discourse
By Hayden Marshall. In part one of ‘Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics’ Air Commodore Hayden Marshall describes how digital disruption and cyber threats are likely to change Defence logistics in the future. In part two, the challenges of globally… Continue reading
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Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics – Part One
By Hayden Marshall. Logistics In War is privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish a series of posts based upon a Discussion Paper written by the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) Director-General Strategic Logistics, Air Commodore Hayden… Continue reading
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LIW Editorial – Strategy Bridge: Reconsidering Rear Area Security
Mark Gilchrest, an Australian Army officer and Featured Contributor at The Strategy Bridge makes a great point in his article ‘Reconsidering Rear Area Security’ – it is a mistake to think that the battle ends where the ‘rear area’ begins.… Continue reading
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Commercial acumen in the training of the ADF’s logisticians
By Editor. ‘[T]he procurement process itself is a weapon of war no less significant than the guns, the airplanes, and the rockets turned out by the arsenals of democracy.’ I.B. Holley[1] Business and corporate enterprise has always been a partner… Continue reading
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The strategic logistician and professional possibility
By David Beaumont. As a participant of a recent seminar-base course designed to prepare logistics officers for appointments within strategic and joint agencies and commands in Defence, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 