Transforming Army’s Logistics
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The value of a moment – logistics and the acceleration of war
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. ‘Future advantage will lie with the side who can ‘own the time’ and best prepare the… Continue reading
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Realising the sustainable joint land force
By David Beaumont. Two decades ago, as Western militaries confronted a new strategic paradigm with declarations that a ‘revolution in military affairs’ was underway, the US Army Chief of Staff General Reimers declared: ‘There will not be a revolution in… Continue reading
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Transforming Australian Army logistics to support the Joint Land Force
By David Beaumont. To start 2018, LIW is pleased to announce the release of ‘Transforming Australian Army logistics to support the Joint Land Force’, a paper shaped by the discussion of logistics on LIW during 2017. Published by the Australian… Continue reading
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Lessons in logistic transformation and a new agenda for change
By David Beaumont. This post concludes the ‘Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics’ series, and is an abridged extract from a larger paper. Over a series of articles, I have outlined a basic history of change with respect to logistics in… 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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Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics – defending Australia in the 1980s and 1990s
By David Beaumont. This post continues the ‘Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics’ series, and is an abridged extract from a larger paper. As much as we might like to think that militaries change because of strategic necessity and transformative concepts,… Continue reading
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Transforming the Australian Army’s logistics
By David Beaumont. Some may recall from earlier posts on ‘Logistics In War’ that in late 2016, the Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, challenged the senior logisticians of the Australian Army to ‘revolutionise’ Army’s logistics. This… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 