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From the ‘swamp’ to the ‘high-ground’ and back – educating logisticians to operate in complexity: Part One
By Dr. Chris Paparone and George L. Topic The difficulty and complexity of the post-industrial military profession at all levels is so profound and widely recognized that it is almost cliché to mention. This is true for all specialties, but… Continue reading
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Commercial acumen – the missing link in the training of ADF logisticians: Part Two
By Carney Elias. In an earlier post, I argued that Defence must become better at developing commercial acumen in logisticians. This assertion was made on the basis of my experiences within the Australian Army. In keeping with the fundamental principles… Continue reading
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Commercial acumen – the missing link in the training of ADF logisticians: Part One
By Carney Elias. ‘[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] The 2015 edition of the Macquarie Dictionary defines… Continue reading
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The trust deficit – why do we expect logistics to fail us?
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 a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability of… Continue reading
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Call for submissions – Creating the ‘Future Logistician’
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: “Transforming those force projection and sustainment processes cannot be done without competent and dedicated military and civil service logisticians to manage the changes and the processes. DoD must… Continue reading
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Logistics and the strangling of strategy
By David Beaumont. 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 and ultimately more profound. The… Continue reading
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Calculations and the loss of logistics
By David Beaumont. Recently the US Army introduced an internet site reinvigorating the idea of the ‘extended battlefield’ as envisioned by TRADOC in the last decade of the Cold War. In reading General Starry’s 1981 Military Review article on offer… Continue reading
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Future Logistician – framing a new approach
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? An environment that is characterised by change; changes in war fighting concepts… Continue reading
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Structuring logistics for unstructured war
By Chris Paparone. In the October 2014 issue of The Journal of Military History, Robert W. Hutchinson published his illuminating article subtitled, “Wehrmacht Officers, the U.S. Army Historical Division, and U.S. Military Doctrine, 1945–1956.” Hutchinson tells the story about how,… Continue reading
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Call for submissions – Creating the ‘Future Logistician’
“Transforming those force projection and sustainment processes cannot be done without competent and dedicated military and civil service logisticians to manage the changes and the processes. DoD must help them develop the new skill sets in performance-based service contracting and… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 