Future Logistician
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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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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician – Part Two
By David Beaumont. Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible. This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New… Continue reading
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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One
By David Beaumont. Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible. This transcript is the first half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New… Continue reading
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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician – Part Two
By David Beaumont. This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. The session was titled ‘The Future Logistician’. The first half can be found here. What we need… Continue reading
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The strategic logistician and professional possibility
By David Beaumont. During a logistics course in late 2017, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic ‘future logistician’ might be.[1] It was a difficult question to answer without straying into explanations about strategic… 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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Intellectual irrelevance and the ownership of military logistics
By David Beaumont. This post is an update of a popular post from the #LIWArchives. The professionalisation of logisticians is a topic that has once again emerged, as strategic-level organisations in a number of different militaries seek to improve, and… Continue reading
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Learning and training to get it right – what environment are we preparing Army logisticians for?
By Michael Lane. It has been said that origins of modern logistics were adopted from the military. This implies that at some point in time military logisticians were the leaders in logistics thinking and by extension logistics training. However, where… Continue reading
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From the ‘swamp’ to the ‘high-ground’ and back – educating logisticians to operate in complexity: Part Two
By Dr. Chris Paparone and George L. Topic In part one of ‘From the swamp to the high-ground and back’, Chris Paparone and George Topic questioned the methodology applied to the education of military logisticians. In concluding part one, it… Continue reading
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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
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 