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Logistics Unleashed: Unveiling the Most Pivotal Events that Shaped its Development

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In this captivating article, we delve into the annals of history to explore the most important events that paved the way for the extraordinary development of logistics as we know it today. It required the establishment of reliable supply chains, leading to the emergence of trade caravans, rest stations, and security measures.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. There is no guarantee that the architects of strategy will heed the results of planning as events outpace the products of industrious minds, or proclivities and politics prevail. adfwc/Documents/DoctrineLibrary/ADDP/ADDP_00_2_preparedness_and_mobilisation.pdf. [2]

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How one forward-looking idea turned into a global support network for humanitarians

World Food Programme Logistics

At that time, WFP was mandated to manage it, and transformed it into a logistic hub offering supply chain services to humanitarian organizations. I have lost count of my field missions but, as for many, the 2004 Tsunami was a life-changing experience: there we understood the meaning of the word apocalypse.” Pino and Giuseppe M.