Operations
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5th-generation energy for 5th-generation air power
Editorial Note: On 11 April 2019, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar examining high-intensity operations and sustaining self-reliance. The aim of the seminar, building on previous seminars and series looking at #jointstrike and #highintensitywar, is to establish a common understanding of the importance… Continue reading
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Logistics and the strangling of strategy
By David Beaumont. Logistics has long been recognised as vital to a force, but when inefficient a constraint on that force’s freedom to manoeuvre. However, the impact of logistics on strategy is just as significant and ultimately more profound. The… Continue reading
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Logistics and the strangling of strategy – from the LIWArchives
By David Beaumont, originally posted 22nd April 2017. Logistics has long been recognised as vital to a force, but when inefficient a constraint on that force’s freedom to manoeuvre. However, the impact of logistics on strategy is just as significant… Continue reading
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Huston’s sixteen principles: assessing operational performance during Op Desert Storm
By Chris Paparone. This article is interesting not only for its historical value, but in the way Chris Paparone utilised the sixteen principles of logistics derived from the classic American history of Army logistics, Dr James Huston’s The Sinews of War:… Continue reading
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Organising logistics for Multi-Domain Battle: Making a Complex Problem Even More Complex
This article was prepared as part of a collaboration with ‘Over The Horizon: Multi-domain operations and strategies’, a blog which asks the question, ‘what comes after the Joint and inter-agency constructs?’ The article can also be found here. If you… Continue reading
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‘Cunctator’ Part 2: Siege warfare and the logistics of resistance – lessons from Croatia and Iraq
By Erik A. Claessen. This post continues from ‘Cunctator’ – Logistics, hostile environments and war in cities. In 2006 – three years into Operation Iraqi Freedom – the US Army recognised: “People support the source that meets their needs.”[1] This was a… Continue reading
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Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics – a new expedition, and new expectations
By David Beaumont. This post continues the ‘Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics’ series, and is an abridged extract from a larger paper. The operations in East Timor are commonly seen to be a litmus test of Army’s logistic capability, and… Continue reading
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Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics – sustaining INTERFET
‘In the past the Australian armed forces have not had to invest in substantial deployable logistic capabilities. Our forces have relied upon major allies such as the US and Britain. The logistic support for INTERFET was magnificent, but sustainment was… Continue reading
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‘Cunctator’ – Logistics, hostile environments and war in cities
By Erik A. Claessen. In 216 BC, a Carthaginian army, commanded by Hannibal, crossed the Alps and invaded the region now known as Italy. In a series of spectacular victories, Hannibal annihilated the Roman armed forces. Military academies worldwide still… 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
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 