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Strategy, Institutions and Change: Leadership Lessons from Military Logistics
By David Beaumont, PhD Logistics is one those topics which can be persuasively presented so to drive reform in military. However, when budgets are constrained, change is contested, and there are many other different things for defence staff to do,… Continue reading
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Still hoping and planning for the best: military logistics, strategic preparedness and the role of the logistics community
By David Beaumont, PhD. Logistics now receives greater strategic attention, but it still for debate as to whether that recognition has changed the assumptions behind military preparedness. Industrial capacity, supply-chain resilience and the ability to sustain military forces receive explicit… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part V: Bringing national support to life – implications for National Defence
How can Defence’s national support approach evolve from a strategic concept into a fundamental component of a whole-of-nation preparedness system? There can be little doubt that Defence’s approach to national support directly impacts the way it will sustain future operations.… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part IV: The Key Characteristics of an Effective National Support System for Australia’s Defence and Civil Preparedness
If national support is essential to National Defence and national civil preparedness, what characteristics should the system possess for it to be a credible source of strategic advantage for Australia in competition, crisis and conflict? By David Beaumont, PhD. In… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part III: National Support as the link between defence and national civil preparedness
How can a national support approach strengthen Australia’s national defence by integrating defence preparedness with national civil preparedness? By David Beaumont, PhD. This article is the third in a series on the strategic rationale for national support in Australian defence… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part II: Preparing the Nation for Competition, Crisis and Conflict
How is Australia’s changing strategic environment reshaping the requirements for national civil preparedness, national support, and preparing the current and future force? By David Beaumont, PhD. Australia’s strategic environment is no longer simply deteriorating. Australian strategic policy has been clear… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part I: The essential role of national resources and logistics in National Defence
Why should Australia organise national resources for defence before a crisis occurs, and what must be true for that approach to national civil preparedness and support to succeed? Australia’s strategic circumstances have changed in ways that require the nation, and… Continue reading
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From industry access to strategic advantage: why competition for industry and logistics will shape success in and out of war.
By David Beaumont For years Western strategic policy has seemed built for short, limited, wars, but strategic trends and concern for national industrial preparedness are taking planning in new directions. The notion that a concept for industrial mobilisation is now… Continue reading
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Assured industrial access in a new strategic epoch – contestation and the convergence of production and logistics.
By David Beaumont. In The fight to supply, I argued that one of the most important shifts in the changing character of war could be found in the growing contestation of logistics space. This was not only a statement about… Continue reading
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The fight to supply – what Ukraine and the Middle-east tell us about logistics space and the changing character of war
By David Beaumont The stabilising forces that once made global logistics flows all but a secondary concern for strategists, government policymakers, and defence planners are now under severe strain. With every reminder given to Western militaries that global supply chains… Continue reading
