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Logistics: The Key to Victory (ePub)

Military

By Jeremy Black
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 1.2 MB (.epub)
ISBN: 9781399006026
Published: 25th August 2021

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Logistics is an essential aspect of warfare and this is an original and much-needed contribution. All commanders know that an army (or navy) cannot operate without supplies yet most aspects of war studies emphasise strategy, tactics, weaponry and command. This book fills a gap in war studies with logistics as a huge subject at the centre of all conflict, globally and historically. The focus is on key conflicts, developments and concepts, illustrating the vital role of logistics with technologies changing but underlying issues remaining constant. Here is a world history of logistics - a veritable compendium - but within a detailed and comprehensive but concise text. Factors affecting logistics include, for example, climate, geography, food supplies, welfare of troops, payment, transport, communications, terrain and distance, but also government policy, stability and financial conditions. All are considered, including theoretical and practical factors of supply, from classical, ancient, early and medieval times, to modern eras of industrial warfare, especially with oil and steam, and scientific and technical advances - even cyber warfare and 'smart' weapons.

As someone who worked in civilian logistics all my working life, while being interested in military history, I found this a very interesting book to read.

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Military Model Scene

This book is recommended reading for logistics professionals and for those that still doubt the decisive nature of a comprehensive logistics strategy.

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Australian Naval Institute

Anyone who wants to understand logistics (and policy-making) better would be well-advised to read it.

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ARRSE (Army Rumour Service)

"The author does an excellent job in considering strategic, operational and tactical levels of logistics and the factors of supply across the ages from the classical to modern times, all having their specific issues but also a commonality of purpose and a constancy of limitations! This work should be recommended reading equally for the experienced practitioner and the logistic tyro!"

Martin Willoughby, Chairman of the Wessex Branch of the Western Front Association

About Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black has been described as 'the most prolific historical scholar of our age'. Jeremy Black has researched and written widely on British history, politics, including political ideas, and international relations, since the 17th and 18th centuries to the present, and especially on military history.
He obtained a starred First in History at Queens College, Cambridge followed by postgraduate work at St John's and Merton Colleges, Oxford, and was Lecturer and Professor of History at Durham University, and now Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He is senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
He has lectured extensively in various British Commonwealth countries, Europe and the USA. He has served as archives editor, council member of prestigious academic and research bodies like Royal Historical Society and the British Records Association and on editorial boards of numerous history journals - History Today, RUSI Journal, International Review of Military History, Media History etc. He has numerous honours including the MBE.

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