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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Clausewitz’s survey of history, as well as the Napoleonic Wars, led him to write that ‘[t]he end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed and trained, the whole object of his sleeping is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time’. [5] 6] What was possible was shaped by what was immediately practical.

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Clausewitz’s survey of history, as well as the Napoleonic Wars, led him to write that ‘[t]he end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed and trained, the whole object of his sleeping is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time’. [5] 6] What was possible was shaped by what was immediately practical.