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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Equally, these anecdotes present the ADF experience as one defined by collective complacency and hubris at a policy level. These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.”

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Equally, these anecdotes present the ADF experience as one defined by collective complacency and hubris at a policy level. These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.”

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based. A new narrative could be presented to Government in the wake of Defence’s mobilisation review currently underway and would help to guide whole-of-Government planning for military-based crises.

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Logistics, Digital Transformation and Future Logisticians

Logistics in War

Digital transformation is impacting Australia’s major seaports, supermarket chains, package distribution, construction industry and even deep into our homes. A recent study sees the application of digital technology in this industry sector across this decade in three stages. Problem definition. electrification. Problem solving.

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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

According to The Huffington Pos t, a wide variety of apprenticeship programs focus on construction and manufacturing, creating a largely untapped resource of new skilled labor that manufacturers could easily access. If manufacturers can embrace this opportunity, the problems presented by the skills gap can be overcome.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Logistics processes can be highly adversarial and mutually destructive – especially in the context of readiness – or highly cooperative and constructive although not without the need to resolve ‘creative conflict’. Changes in financial guidance are an especially ‘capricious influence’. Opinions always outnumber facts.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1

Logistics in War

Logistics processes can be highly adversarial and mutually destructive – especially in the context of readiness – or highly cooperative and constructive although not without the need to resolve ‘creative conflict’. Changes in financial guidance are an especially ‘capricious influence’. Opinions always outnumber facts.