Technology
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Logistics and autonomous systems – the promise of transformed logistics
The popular discussion on autonomy in warfare is constrained to either describing the advantages of introducing autonomous systems for ‘dull, dirty and dangerous’ work, or articulating the limitations of their use (including ethical limitations). Logistics can be filled with a… Continue reading
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Technology and what lies beneath – the full cost of modernisation
By David Beaumont. You needn’t venture far to find an article or military concept which in some way promotes technology and capability modernisation as a means of addressing the next, albeit hypothesised, battlefield challenge. Great advances in robotics and the… 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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Speed, distance and adaptive distribution – the rise of the logistics UAV
By Jason Sibley. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) continues to become more common. We are all familiar with the military use of UAV’s, and their indispensable role in performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, command and control… Continue reading
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Technology and what lies beneath – the full cost of modernisation
By David Beaumont. You needn’t venture far to find an article or military concept which in some way promotes technology and capability modernisation as a means of addressing the next, albeit hypothesised, battlefield challenge. Great advances in robotics and automation,… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 