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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1

Logistics in War

I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants through the course of academic research in 2017. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. Strategic failure.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. By David Beaumont.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Through researching the way in which the ADF has prepared and mobilised its logistics capabilities at the strategic level, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. Realised strategy is usually a combination of what was intended and what was learned along the way.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

Artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, robotics, cloud computing. Mention mobilisation and people instantly think of world wars, gigantic factories churning out military hardware on a vast scale and society wide conscription. There seem three broad types of strategy an attacker might use with simplest being inducing chaos.

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Logistics, Digital Transformation and Future Logisticians

Logistics in War

A recent study sees the application of digital technology in this industry sector across this decade in three stages. Open source platforms will integrate readily with other similar platforms allowing machine-to-machine communications and real-time data exchange so they can self-learn and make decisions. electrification.

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Six strategic challenges for Defence logistics

Logistics in War

You may remember his leadership insights from the post ‘Surviving your time as a military logistician’. The use of ‘big data’ and ‘cloud’-based applications is becoming increasing prevalent as customers and suppliers understand the possibilities. Questions to consider: .

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

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Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. ” Prior to this, logistics was a term that had been used almost exclusively to describe the support of military movements.