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