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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont On 17 April 2024, Defence’s Integrated Investment Plan was published as a companion to Australia’s National Defence Strategy. [1] History cruelly reminds military planners, governments and nations that such opinions tend to ‘leave emperors without their clothes’.

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Logistics Contractors and strategic logistics advantage in US military operations

Logistics in War

iii] The deliberate divestment of military logistic capabilities has necessitated that the US use contracted and host nation support for a number of logistic related services in combat operations. Contractors enable combat forces to concentrate on core military activities and focus on the development of warfighting capabilities. [x]

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MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics with Chris Caplice

The Logistics of Logistics

from MIT in 1996 in Transportation and Logistics Systems, a MSCE from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSCE from the Virginia Military Institute. In this role, he pioneered the development of the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC). He received a Ph.D.

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

Logistics in War

On one hand it harks back to the Australian strategic policy of the post-Vietnam War years, but it has also been raised in recent debates about the limits of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) capability, or even the nations defence industrial capacity. It is, of course, prudent to be as self-reliant as practicable.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

It is common for pundits to look ahead and predict how an industry or profession will change. Labor management systems break the work down into very granular activities, set targets for doing those tasks in an allotted period of time, and measure how workers do against the time standards over the course of the day.

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The water in the well – how much readiness is enough?

Logistics in War

One of Martin Van Creveld’s most contentious, and subsequently debated, themes of Supplying War related to the persistent inability, if not unwillingness, of various militaries to adequately structure and prepare themselves for the rigours of sustained combat. Western militaries are waking to these problems. By David Beaumont.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

In ‘Burning incense at a new altar’ and closing Logistics In War for 2017, I reflected on the state of interest in military logistics and why it was important to the profession of arms right now. More personnel – whether military or partners from industry – were engaged in sustaining battle than participating in front-line combat.