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

Logistics in War

8] Echoing other strategic documentation of the time, the DER ‘Industry Policy Sub-Review team’ recommended that the HQ ADF reconsider its strategic logistics planning capability, and for national mobilisation to be considered coherently as a critical logistics issue.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

Instead of using Google to search scientific literature, imagine hundreds of women using massive mainframe computers searching for physical documents based on key words submitted by scientists. At that time—the mid-1960s—my mother worked as a researcher for a NASA contractor. I tell this story for a reason.