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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

It is necessary for us in the ADF to prepare for the confluence of events that inevitable occur over a longer term than we envisage. We need only look at the events of late 2019 and 2020 and the confluence of bushfires, pandemics, and geostrategic tensions to show how organisations and other groups respond to the foreseen but unanticipated.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. This is what daily life in the military is all about; generating forces, individual and collective training, assessing capabilities and conducting remedial activities to correct any problems or deficiencies. 3] Galvin, T., 4] Betts., 6] Van Creveld, M., 7] Betts.,

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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.