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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

This series of articles aims to address this gap by showing how logistics problems accumulate and metastasise into operational preparedness shortcomings. Twenty-five years on, we still know little about the systemic failures in the ADF’s approach to strategic logistics and the consequences this had on operations. What are we talking about?

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

This series of articles aims to address this gap by showing how logistics problems accumulate and metastasise into operational preparedness shortcomings. Twenty-five years on, we still know little about the systemic failures in the ADF’s approach to strategic logistics and the consequences this had on operations. What are we talking about?

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Logistics in War and national resilience – join the final series!

Logistics in War

This approach reflected the interests of the principle author and editor, but also a fairly robust conversation about the idea of ‘national resilience’ and the role of the military within it. This unforeseen event revealed societal ‘unreadiness’ to severe events, just as it prompted questions about how and for what the ADF was prepared for.

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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

From Sound Military Decision , United States Naval College, 1942. Wars are usually longer than expected and are rarely fought in accordance with the plans made by military planners at their outset. 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.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. When capability and attitude are misaligned, and where understanding is deficient, it is inevitable that the investment of time, effort and resources into military readiness is wasted.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. When capability and attitude are misaligned, and where understanding is deficient, it is inevitable that the investment of time, effort and resources into military readiness is wasted.

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Underwriting preparedness – considering the logistics of the future preparedness system

Logistics in War

One of the fundamental questions to answer when preparing a military for war is ‘are the capabilities on hand prepared for X?’ As I have said many times before, the quality of the logistics support given to a military is the sum of innumerable parts.