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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within
By David Beaumont. This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. Part one can… Continue reading
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Learning to live in a logistician’s world – strategic logistics and the future of military resilience
This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. By David Beaumont. There is… Continue reading
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Logistics Contractors and strategic logistics advantage in US military operations
By Sally Williamson The US has enjoyed a strategic logistics advantage in most locations where it has sought to project and sustain military power because it has been able to coalesce host nation, commercial and transnational organisations to provide services,… Continue reading
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Logistics, preparedness and the Defence Strategic Review
By David Beaumont National Defence: Defence Strategic Review was released to the public on 24 April 2023, to a defence ‘community’ only too eager to scrutinise the document for its consequences on the ADF’s capability mix. The paper, of course,… Continue reading
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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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