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LIW Editorial – Strategy Bridge: Reconsidering Rear Area Security
Mark Gilchrest, an Australian Army officer and Featured Contributor at The Strategy Bridge makes a great point in his article ‘Reconsidering Rear Area Security’ – it is a mistake to think that the battle ends where the ‘rear area’ begins.… Continue reading
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Commercial acumen in the training of the ADF’s logisticians
By Editor. ‘[T]he procurement process itself is a weapon of war no less significant than the guns, the airplanes, and the rockets turned out by the arsenals of democracy.’ I.B. Holley[1] Business and corporate enterprise has always been a partner… Continue reading
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Future Logistician – framing a new approach
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: By Major General David Mulhall. What do we need of our military logisticians in the future? Or perhaps, what skills, attributes, experiences and education will best prepare logisticians to deliver outcomes in a Joint environment?… Continue reading
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The trust deficit – why do we expect logistics to fail us?
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: 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… Continue reading
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‘Cunctator’ Part Three: the war feeds itself – civil logistics and modern-age siege warfare
By Erik A. Claessen. In June, 2017 Yisrael Katz, the Israeli Minister of Transport released a video that presented a plan to create an artificial island off the Gaza Strip. The proposal calls for the construction of a seaport as… Continue reading
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While you were on exercise …. articles you may have missed
By Editor. Over the last two months a significant proportion of the readership participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre; a biennial exercise which saw the ADF, US forces from PACOM and elsewhere, NZDF and other participants engage in a significant certification… Continue reading
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Call for authors – exercising, joint logistics and the strategic level of war
Joint operations is not a new concept, nor is joint logistics. Militaries have been integrating the resources of two or more Services, and other supporting agencies, to maximise their combat potential and operational performance since ancient times. Over the last… Continue reading
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The ‘Headquarters Snowball’
By David Beaumont. The scale of logistics and the size of headquarters are routinely considered alongside one another because of the belief that smaller headquarters and logistics forces means more combat troops and, more importantly, efficient processes. This can be… Continue reading
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Call for submissions – Creating the ‘Future Logistician’
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: “Transforming those force projection and sustainment processes cannot be done without competent and dedicated military and civil service logisticians to manage the changes and the processes. DoD must… Continue reading
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Calculations and the loss of logistics
By David Beaumont. Recently the US Army introduced an internet site reinvigorating the idea of the ‘extended battlefield’ as envisioned by TRADOC in the last decade of the Cold War. In reading General Starry’s 1981 Military Review article on offer… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 