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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics
By David Beaumont. In ‘Burning incense at a new altar’ and closing Logistics in War for 2017, I reflected on the state of interest in military logistics and why it was important to the profession of arms right now. As… Continue reading
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Burning incense at a new altar – a year of ‘Logistics In War’
By David Beaumont. Thank you for your patronage of Logistics In War and the interest given to the works of authors who have invested personal time and effort to write about a subject of profound importance to military readiness and… Continue reading
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The future of strategic mobility by air – reconciling expectations with the capacity to deliver
By Jobie Turner. In my earlier post, I argued that the expectations being placed upon air power to deliver strategic mobility outweigh its capacity to operationally deliver. Yet air transportation will remain an essential way of sustaining combat forces in… Continue reading
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Six strategic challenges – global logistics integration and the state of professional discourse
By Hayden Marshall. In part one of ‘Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics’ Air Commodore Hayden Marshall describes how digital disruption and cyber threats are likely to change Defence logistics in the future. In part two, the challenges of globally… Continue reading
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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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