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Future Logistician – framing a new approach
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: By Major General David Mulhall. What do we need of our military logisticians in the future? Or perhaps, what skills, attributes, experiences and education will best prepare logisticians to deliver outcomes in a Joint environment?… Continue reading
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LIW Editorial – SSI, Strategy Bridge and the quartermasters claim on history
In Military Logistics and Strategic Performance Thomas Kane wrote that the ‘quartermaster’s claim on history may, at its root, lie in the effect of logistics on timing.’[1] Moreover, ‘[t]he longer a nation requires to bring its force to bear, the… Continue reading
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Joint logistics by design – is it time for a permanent joint logistics formation?
By Editor. Meegan Olding, a serving Australian Army officer writing on the Land Power Forum, contends that emerging requirements are strengthening the case for us to rethink joint logistics and its role in capability development, force generation and its role… Continue reading
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The trust deficit – why do we expect logistics to fail us?
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: By Gabrielle M. Follett. Trust. The willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform… Continue reading
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Huston’s sixteen principles: assessing operational performance during Op Desert Storm
By Chris Paparone. This article is interesting not only for its historical value, but in the way Chris Paparone utilised the sixteen principles of logistics derived from the classic American history of Army logistics, Dr James Huston’s The Sinews of War:… Continue reading
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Problems with preparedness – why we always seem logistically unprepared for war
By David Beaumont. ‘Logistics readiness’ is at the heart of military preparations for the unforeseen, especially for those militaries who consider themselves to be ‘expeditionary’ in nature. The six characteristics of logistics readiness – mutual understanding between commanders and their… Continue reading
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Speed, distance and adaptive distribution – the rise of the logistics UAV
By Jason Sibley. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) continues to become more common. We are all familiar with the military use of UAV’s, and their indispensable role in performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, command and control… Continue reading
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‘Cunctator’ Part Three: the war feeds itself – civil logistics and modern-age siege warfare
By Erik A. Claessen. In June, 2017 Yisrael Katz, the Israeli Minister of Transport released a video that presented a plan to create an artificial island off the Gaza Strip. The proposal calls for the construction of a seaport as… Continue reading
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While you were on exercise …. articles you may have missed
By Editor. Over the last two months a significant proportion of the readership participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre; a biennial exercise which saw the ADF, US forces from PACOM and elsewhere, NZDF and other participants engage in a significant certification… 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 automation,… Continue reading
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