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Future Logistician – framing a new approach
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? An environment that is characterised by change; changes in war fighting concepts… Continue reading
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Call for submissions – Creating the ‘Future Logistician’
“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 help them develop the new skill sets in performance-based service contracting and… Continue reading
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Leading small-team logistics
By Chris Paparone. Steven Menschelyi recently described in a great article how armies can manage combat service support units best if it sees them as they really are: a collection of mission-focused teams. As a CSS Bn Cdr, I came… Continue reading
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Thinking small – the importance of small-team logistic operations
By Steven Mencshelyi Orchestrating the efforts of small combat elements operating in tactical environments which require dispersal and disaggregation is difficult. It’s probably going to get even more difficult to orchestrate combat elements, and maintain tempo, when we start considering… Continue reading
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Sustaining ‘Multi-Domain Battle’: Part Two – combat and modular logistic forces
By David Beaumont. Success in war has always demanded forces that are adaptable, and sustaining the type of operations being considered under the rubric of Multi-Domain Battle will require no different. Most logisticians will be well-familiar with the idea of… Continue reading
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Trust, discipline and accepting risk – the principles and art of sustaining decisive action
By David Beaumont. Joe Byerly’s ‘From the Green Notebook’ (a WordPress blog, with a Facebook site) is conducting a series-based ‘Decisive Action week’. The posts are describing the ways in which armies prepare themselves for operations and exercises. It was… Continue reading
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Survive first, sustain later: exercising dispersed logistics in the close fight
By Mark Baldock A logistics element not capable of surviving and operating in a threat environment is a battlefield liability. Armies knew long before ‘multi-domain battle’ was developed that logistic capabilities are easy to identify, target and destroy. They are… Continue reading
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Task Force Eagle – V Corps deployment to Bosnia and logistic cost
By James Davis. This post is an edited version of an article published at James’s site ‘The Armchair Colonel’ under the title ‘Task Force Eagle – the logistic cost of operations’. It is reposted with the authors permission. Prior to… Continue reading
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Adapting Atlas – The cost of combat power: Part Two
By David Beaumont. Most Western land forces are beyond the point where a ‘protection versus mobility’ argument has short-term usefulness. In recent years due to a range of threats upon typically Middle-eastern battlefields militaries have found protection as essential; protection… Continue reading
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No silver bullets – enhancing the logistic forces of a small Army
By James Davis The logistic implications of Multi Domain Battle might be a du jour topic, but it is a distraction for a small Army. The challenges envisaged by Multi Domain Battle are not unique and aspects will feature in… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 