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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. The ADF has experienced this ‘tradition’ in the past.

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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

The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war. One study of twentieth-century conflicts since 1939 found that the average time between the ‘first indication of war and the firing of the first shots has been 14.3 2] Babbage, R., ‘Ten 7] Van Creveld, M.,

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Streamlining University Logistics: The Path to Efficiency and Sustainability

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

According to a study by Barth et al. Optimizing Supply Chain Management Universities require a vast array of resources, from laboratory equipment and office supplies to food and maintenance materials. Streamlining supply chain management can lead to significant cost savings and reduced environmental impact.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

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This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Indicators are that the worker deficit could rise to over 2 million unfilled jobs in the next decade.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. For example, it is widely accepted that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had little logistics capacity to sustain a large second-rotation force after intervening in East Timor in 1999. The importance of a high-level of preparedness to a military is self-evident.