Leadership
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership – Part 2
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. In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1
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. I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants… Continue reading
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Every logistician must write
By David Beaumont. Logistics in War has been online for two years. This post, shared with the Australian Army’s ‘Cove’, gives three reasons why military professionals should write. It is based upon experiences learned from those eighteen months. The three… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership – part 2
By David Beaumont. In a previous post I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. These insights were given by logisticians, but not always, and pointed at many… Continue reading
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Surviving your time as a military logistician
by Hayden Marshall. Ed. – With the Australian & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference in one week, LIW will revisit several recent posts on logistics at the strategic (and enterprise) level, or within joint organisations. It is no wonder that… Continue reading
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Every logistician must write
By David Beaumont. Logistics in War has been online for nearly one and a half years. This post, shared with the Australian Army’s ‘Cove’, gives three reasons why military professionals should write. It is based upon experiences learned from those… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians
By David Beaumont. Through researching the way in which the ADF has prepared and mobilised its logistics capabilities at the strategic level, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. These officials… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians
By David Beaumont. Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. These officials were responsible for key decisions with respect to… Continue reading
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Surviving your time as a military logistician
by Hayden Marshall It is no wonder that logisticians are regarded as a humourless bunch for they have spent many years living in fear of Alexander the Great’s wrath (and his successors) that famously declared that the logisticians would be… 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







