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Logistics and the strangling of strategy

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From 2006 to 2011 the USAF record of airdrops in Afghanistan had increased from 3.5 School of Advanced Military Studies student, Major Martha Granger, in her 2003 analysis of three Afghanistan campaigns (pdf), noted logistics is never easy and there must be balance between ‘iron mountains’ and the lean force. 1] Clausewitz, C.,

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Logistics in War

From 2006 to 2011 the USAF record of airdrops in Afghanistan had increased from 3.5 School of Advanced Military Studies student, Major Martha Granger, in her 2003 analysis of three Afghanistan campaigns (pdf), noted logistics is never easy and there must be balance between ‘iron mountains’ and the lean force.

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