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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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Garbe converts military training ground to logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

“The area we acquired from the Free State of Thuringia is part of a former military training ground,” explains Adrian Zellner, Member of the Executive Board at Garbe Industrial Real Estate. This is part of our corporate strategy,” emphasises Adrian Zellner. BCUBE Logistik GmbH has already been confirmed as the tenant.

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Defining strategic competition – how logistics makes a military credible

Logistics in War

Recently Western militaries have contended that adversaries, real and potential, do not always distinguish peace and war. 1] Now these same Western militaries recognise they must act in times other than in armed conflict, offsetting the strengths of other nations or groups who have a very different interpretation of what defines war.

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

Logistics in War

Discussions about self-reliance or military interoperability, like many other conversations among defence planners, infrequently begin with a conversation on supplies, maintenance and repair, or other logistics functions or capabilities. Australia’s military logistics is intertwined with the strategic fortunes of its coalition partners.

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Is logistics the ultimate conventional deterrent?

Logistics in War

The Royal Australian Air Force, now armed with the fifth-generation fighter and other impressive air capabilities guided by a wholesale transformation strategy – Plan Jericho, has recently debated the need for a joint strike capability. Logistics and strategy are inseparable, each meaningless without the other. By David Beaumont.

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ST Engineering Invests in IoT Satellite Company

IoT World Today

HiSky’s service also includes network management software that provides the capability to monitor each satellite terminal and filter out specific elements as well as grouping units by their device model or firmware version. The terminals pick up internet access from commercial spacecraft and beam them to IoT endpoints.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

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. The third and most difficult strategy is changing people’s minds.