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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations ? is it time for a new ?national support agenda??

Logistics in War

What the Statement didn’t do, however, was to detail a new path for industry in the context of supporting actual ADF operations. While reliance was avoided because of the strategic policy orientation of ‘self-reliance’, ‘we must now also move to confront our dependence on US resupply in high-intensity operations’.

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

This article looks at how logistics readiness has shaped military success and failures, created the nature of operations, and most certainly the capacity of militaries to be viable as a force. Fuller in his biopic of Alexander; supply was the basis for operational – if not strategic – mobility. [1]

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

The first, Operation Desert Storm of 1991 , saw the transportation of near a national strategic reserve to a battlefield thus ensuring a 100-hour war was possible; a war where logistics offered little tactical constraint. Will the next decade of operations display the same characteristics?

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

This article looks at how logistics readiness has shaped military success and failures, created the nature of operations, and most certainly the capacity of militaries to be viable as a force. Fuller in his biopic of Alexander; supply was the basis for operational – if not strategic – mobility. [1]

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

Pure AN is stable and will stop decomposing once the heat source is removed, but when catalysts are present, the reaction can become self-sustaining (known as self-sustaining decomposition, or SSD). Tonnes: The fertilizer storage facility of Fertiberia held a self-sustained decomposition (SSD) fire in January 2003. Country: France.

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Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt Receives Sustainability Award at Clean50 Summit in Toronto

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The award was presented at the Clean50 Summit in Toronto on Sept. Eric Beckwitt was born in California but had to flee with the family in 2003 to save his son, who suffered severe asthma in the Sierra Nevada foothills where the Beckwitt family lived. Clean50 CEO Gavin Pitchford presents the awards. ” About Freightera.

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MIT Restructures Itself to Shape the Future of Computing & Artificial Intelligence

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MIT has announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Related Article: 6 Ways Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Impacting Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Images: MIT.