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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: By David Beaumont. In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. These insights… Continue reading
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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations
A submission to the 2022 Defence Strategic Review. By David Beaumont ‘The role of industrial preparedness in military strategy is anomalous. Prospectively, the role is almost always ignored by military planners but retrospectively; it is agreed that industrial preparedness was… Continue reading
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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part Two
By David Beaumont. This article concludes the discussion started here. Things will go wrong in competition, conflict, and full-scale war. Winning will be about resilience, recovery and response as much as it is about being prepared for well-informed, but sadly… Continue reading
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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One
‘In war, mistakes are normal; errors are usual, information is seldom complete, often accurate, and frequently misleading. Success is won, not by personnel and materiel in prime condition, but by the debris of an organisation worn by the strain of… Continue reading
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Shaping the Eco-System for Logistics Innovation: The Impact of Automation and Autonomous Systems
By Robbin Llaird. This article was recently published at http://www.defense.info and has been reproduced here with permission. It is based upon an interview which followed a recent Williams Foundation Seminar on Next Generation Autonomous Systems. The two articles discussing ‘Sustaining… Continue reading
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Sustaining machines – the logistics of autonomy in military organisations
By David Beaumont. This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. Part one can be found here. In part two of ‘Sustaining Machines’, the… Continue reading
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Sustaining machines – logistics and autonomous systems
By David Beaumont. This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. The popular discussion on autonomy in warfare is constrained to either describing the… Continue reading
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Logistics interoperability, deterrence and resilience – why working as allies matters now more than ever
By Todd Ashurst and David Beaumont. In 2018, Australia and the United States finished celebrating ‘100 years of Mateship,’ noting our distinguished history of operating alongside each other since World War I. A key factor of success in our early… Continue reading
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Strategic risks and the vulnerability of the munitions supply-chain
By Mike Lima. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to global supply chains. The pandemic has shown us the fragility of commercial supply chains; it gives us a reason to think about what a disruption to supply chains might… Continue reading
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Logistics, Digital Transformation and Future Logisticians
By Peter Layton. In his seminal work, Logistics in the National Defense, Henry Eccles writes: “Logistics is the bridge between our national economy and the actual operations of our combat forces in the field.” It’s a pithy description that gets… Continue reading
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