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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

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2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3]. This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based.

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The LIW articles you should read – a 2018 retrospective

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As 2018 draws to a close, a year in which Logistics In War consolidated, it’s a good time to reflect on what were the most popular or relevant articles to the readers. Before I mention the articles, I thought it best to also reflect on the key themes covered on the site this year.

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Making ‘self-reliance’ meaningful – preparing the military to operate alone

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This narrow focus of this article is on the materiel aspects of ‘self-reliance’, and provides a starting point for a conversation that the ADF must have. The ability of a military to conduct operations independently of another’s aid is intrinsically linked to the capacity to prepare, move, supply and support that force.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

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History cruelly reminds military planners, governments and nations that such opinions tend to ‘leave emperors without their clothes’. As the memory of wars and military operations recedes, the importance logistics capability tends to partner in its passing.

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Committing to preparedness, and the balance between ‘all of it’ and ‘just enough’

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Logistics In War has been exploring preparedness and logistics in a series of articles over the last three months. The ability for a military to respond quickly depends upon its ability to mobilise resources, national support base capability and to give support where it is required, as soon as it is required. By David Beaumont.

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Is logistics the ultimate conventional deterrent?

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Nations are naturally competitive, and one of the principle roles for standing militaries is to deter others from undertaking military action within this competition. Recently Western militaries have contended that adversaries, real and potential, do not always distinguish peace and war.

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Limping to war

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The importance of a high-level of preparedness to a military is self-evident. An unprepared military offers political leaders few options, corrupts strategy, is inefficient and ineffective, and poses a national risk. Being definitive about threats or objectives certainly helps in answering the question ‘is the military prepared?’