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

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] 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].

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The Most Important and Most Misunderstood Concept in Business - Opportunity Cost

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You hear a lot in business how strategy is as much about what you will not do as what you will do yet companies can't seem to turn anything off. Many of you know I served in the military and we called this the " Principle of The Concentration of Forces". Now, let's apply this to business. Why is this so important? The answer is simple.

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

’ I described the idea of logistics readiness as the ability of a military force to build up and sustain combat power at their full potential. In practice, however, attempts by militaries to develop logistics readiness have led to mixed results. Logistics drove the strategy of the most powerful nation of the time.

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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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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One

Logistics in War

Everyone in the room is probably quite confident that they have a definition of what a logistician is; whether you agree with one another is another question. Logistics, much like strategy and tactics, is a process or a way of thinking. Defence budgets began to decline, and strategy redeveloped to suit a ‘peace dividend’.

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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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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two

Logistics in War

National support gives the self-evident notion that the national support base is intrinsic to the conduct of military operations coherency. A national support concept was created in the 1990s to show how the ADF and Defence writ large would, in theory, see the national support base better integrated into the conduct of military operations.