Editorial
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Read it – National support for Defence is a whole-of-nation imperative
Editorial Marc Ablong, writing at The Strategist, provides a summary of some of the key issues surrounding the concept of ‘national support’. ‘National support’ is a topic I have often written about, and at its core, is about the integration… Continue reading
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Do Defence logisticians need a new professional narrative?
By David Beaumont Ten years ago, I wrote a short article on the Australian Army’s then ‘Land Power Forum’ arguing the case for an Army logistics narrative. This article was written in the wake of a shake-up of the Army’s… Continue reading
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Self-reliance and the sustainment of the force – logistics as the bedrock or quicksand of operations in a crisis
The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’. As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. While some aspects of this article… Continue reading
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Call for submissions: #Selfsustain and High-Intensity Operations
Logistics In War is proud to partner with the Sir Richard Williams Foundation team at The Central Blue in publishing a series examining high-intensity operations and sustaining self-reliance. On 11 April 2019, the Foundation will be holding a seminar examining… Continue reading
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The LIW articles you should read – a 2018 retrospective
By David Beaumont. As 2018 draws to a close, a year in which Logistics In War consolidated, it’s a good time to reflect on what were the most popular or relevant articles to the readers. Before I mention the articles, I thought… Continue reading
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Where competition, modernisation and capability meet
By David Beaumont. Thankyou, once again, for supporting Logistics In War. The last year has been one in which logistics has featured in debates on strategic competition, advancements in modernisation, and with discussions on the professionalisation of logisticians. The site… Continue reading
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LIW Editorial – taking the national support base ….. beyond the nation
By David Beaumont. As a military logistician, the idea of integrating logistics as part of a coalition is hardly revelatory. Most Western militaries have spent the last twenty years of operations in lockstep with one another accepting that there are… Continue reading
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The five most popular ‘Logistics In War’ posts of 2017
By David Beaumont. ‘Logistics In War’, with well over sixty original posts, had an arguably successful first year of publishing. With 2017 drawing to a close, I am proud to present the five most read articles of the year. I… Continue reading
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Burning incense at a new altar – a year of ‘Logistics In War’
By David Beaumont. Thank you for your patronage of Logistics In War and the interest given to the works of authors who have invested personal time and effort to write about a subject of profound importance to military readiness and… 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
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 