Looking to the Military Model to Improve Commercial Supply Chains
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
Military operations have always had an urgency to their supply-line management, something that has not always been present in commerce.
Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations
Logistics in War
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The ability to operate in emerging domains such as ‘space’ and ‘cyber’, act in the ‘grey zone’, or investments in new technologies from hypersonic weaponry to automation and AI are seen as offsets to potential adversaries. The successful delivery of the ULAC has been greatly beneficial for both the Army and BAE Systems Australia.
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Sustaining machines – the logistics of autonomy in military organisations
Logistics in War
APRIL 17, 2021
This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. Militaries using autonomous weapons will, if we are optimistic about the technology, necessarily look very different in twenty, thirty years in the future. By David Beaumont.
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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within
Logistics in War
JULY 3, 2023
This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. It is the role of the military logistician to govern the network of this lifeblood, for it determines how a force deploys, moves, and changes its scale and scope of tasks. Part one can be found here.
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Learning to live in a logistician’s world – strategic logistics and the future of military resilience
Logistics in War
JUNE 29, 2023
This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. There is little doubt that the topics of logistics and supply-chain resilience court conversations beyond that of military logistics communities. By David Beaumont.
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Building a better prepared Australian Defence Force after the Defence Strategic Review – supply-chains and logistics and the way in which both improve military resilience
Logistics in War
JULY 8, 2023
This is the third and final part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. Supply chain resilience is, of course, a part of this narrative – as we are reminder every time we hear about guided-weapons or military fuels. There are risks within this acceleration.
Sustaining machines – logistics and autonomous systems
Logistics in War
APRIL 16, 2021
This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. Automation offers military logisticians tremendous advantages and has to be a part of their future. By David Beaumont. Automated and autonomy in logistics.
Surviving your time as a military logistician
Logistics in War
JUNE 10, 2018
Our success as military logisticians rests directly with our ability to quickly and decisively understand the needs and requirements of our commanders. The military logistician must also clearly identify risks and threats to ensure that orders/instructions are made on an informed basis. Logistics mantra #2: Are you sure?
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Unrest in the Red Sea: Houthi Strikes and International Political Shifts
MTS Logistics
MAY 1, 2024
Maritime & Trade Operations relayed a statement from a Company Security Officer confirming damage to the vessel but assuring the safety of its crew, who are proceeding to their next port of call. The rebels boasted of the attack’s precision, claiming to have hit the vessel, Cyclades. According to U.S. led global order.
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Penske Logistics Supervisor Presented with Patriot Award
Penske Move Ahead
AUGUST 14, 2019
The call to serve came early for Tyler Bell, who was eager to follow the footsteps of his grandfather and cousin into military service. Knox, Kentucky, Bell straddles the line between military and civilian life, as a warehouse worker for Penske Logistics in Princeton, Indiana. The Patriot Award is presented by the U.S.
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The water in the well – how much readiness is enough?
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
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. At present, they aren’t.
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Logistics and autonomous systems – the promise of transformed logistics
Logistics in War
MAY 1, 2020
Automation offers military logisticians tremendous advantages and has to be a part of their future. It’s a fallacy to think military logistics is only now advancing on an automation. It’s a fallacy to think military logistics is only now advancing on an automation.
Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
’ 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. That’s the theory. 3] It was an expeditionary army designed with logistics in mind.
Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?
Logistics in War
AUGUST 18, 2019
Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations.
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Call for submissions: #Selfsustain and High-Intensity Operations
Logistics in War
JANUARY 31, 2019
Logistics In War is proud to partner with the Sir Richard Williams Foundation team at The Central Blue in publishing a series examining high-intensity operations and sustaining self-reliance. . The Williams Foundation seminar in April anticipates these challenges by focusing on the impact of high-intensity operations on self-reliance.
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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
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.
Building on bedrock or sinking into quicksand – a report on Sustaining Self-Reliance
Logistics in War
APRIL 26, 2019
. ‘Supply chain security continues to occupy our minds as we intermingle our desire for national prosperity through global trade with our desire to prevent the loss of native capacity to build military capability, mobilise and sustain operations. Present day convenience will likely cost the future ADF dearly.
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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war
Logistics in War
JULY 23, 2019
’ 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. That’s the theory. 3] It was an expeditionary army designed with logistics in mind.
How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One
Logistics in War
NOVEMBER 9, 2019
Are we talking about military staff only, does the definition include acquisition specialists, what about health professionals, and are we interested in Service logisticians operating at the tactical level? Operational experiences, set in this strategic and organisational climate, accentuated the evolutionary path.
National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two
Logistics in War
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
National support gives the self-evident notion that the national support base is intrinsic to the conduct of military operations coherency. There is always a need for likeminded nations to optimise the logistics arrangements between one another, because not even the mightiest can sustain major combat operations alone.
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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?
Logistics in War
MARCH 6, 2020
Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations.
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The LIW articles you should read – a 2018 retrospective
Logistics in War
DECEMBER 29, 2018
Firstly, the blog would continue its exploration of how strategy, tactics and logistics aligned in contemporary military operations. Such areas of interest included the relationship between militaries and industry , strategic planning , and emerging concepts such as the Australian Army’s Accelerated Warfare.
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1
Logistics in War
DECEMBER 2, 2019
I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants through the course of academic research in 2017. All logistics processes at the strategic level are joint; moreover they require military and public service input. Military advice is always tested and compared with the views of others.
The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians
Logistics in War
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
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. All logistics processes at the strategic level are joint; moreover they require military and public service input. The nature of military involvement.
Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’
Logistics in War
AUGUST 3, 2018
A military logistician is a study in contrasts. A military logistician can easily find ways to plumb particular portions of his paradoxical profession. The shelves groan, after all, under the weight of books about business management and military operations. A link to his site can be found here.
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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations ? is it time for a new ?national support agenda??
Logistics in War
JUNE 17, 2018
What the Statement didn’t do, however, was to detail a new path for industry in the context of supporting actual ADF operations. While reliance was avoided because of the strategic policy orientation of ‘self-reliance’, ‘we must now also move to confront our dependence on US resupply in high-intensity operations’.
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Penske Salutes Our Veterans
Penske Move Ahead
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The company saluted military veterans during its annual Veterans Day Recognition Event held at the company’s headquarters in Reading, Pennsylvania. The event also featured a performance of the National Anthem by the Alvernia University Chorus Ensemble and the Presentation of Colors by the Muhlenberg High School Air Force JROTC.
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28 Start. Just Start – PME and the fear of writing.
Logistics in War
MARCH 1, 2019
This could have come from a deployment, or as a consequence of serving in the different units and headquarters of the military. This interest in professional mastery is not restricted to military circles, and I have observed that many professions have started to take an interest, especially in the last decade or so.
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Staying Safe when Sharing the Road
Penske Move Ahead
JUNE 23, 2022
More traffic on roadways large and small presents more challenges for drivers. Know How to Properly Operate Your Vehicle and Equipment For movers and renters, make sure you know how to operate your truck and equipment properly to avoid causing trouble on the road. “If Slow down or move ahead to stay visible from blind spots.
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63 The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations – is it time for a new ‘national support agenda’?
Logistics in War
OCTOBER 22, 2017
What the Statement didn’t do, however, was to detail a new path for industry in the context of supporting actual ADF operations. While reliance was avoided because of the strategic policy orientation of ‘self-reliance’, ‘we must now also move to confront our dependence on US resupply in high-intensity operations’.
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Logistics interoperability, deterrence and resilience – why working as allies matters now more than ever
Logistics in War
JUNE 20, 2020
In 2018, Australia and the United States finished celebrating ‘100 years of Mateship,’ noting our distinguished history of operating alongside each other since World War I. The logistics and sustainment arrangements made now determine what is practically possible when military options are ultimately required by governments.
Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics
Logistics in War
JUNE 13, 2018
In this article, US Army logistician Jessica McCarthy examines a challenging, contemporaneous, issue for many Western militaries – how much contractor support is enough? . Like many armies before it, the US Army has utilized the employment of civilians to enhance its operations throughout its history. Mission Creep.
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58 The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians
Logistics in War
MARCH 23, 2018
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. All logistics processes at the strategic level are joint; moreover they require military and public service input.
National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two
Logistics in War
MAY 31, 2019
National support gives the self-evident notion that the national support base is intrinsic to the conduct of military operations coherency. There is always a need for likeminded nations to optimise the logistics arrangements between one another, because not even the mightiest can sustain major combat operations alone.
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55 ‘CoveTalk’ – logistics, Army and the future of war
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
I was privileged to have been asked by those behind the Australian Army’s professional military education site, The Cove , to present a webinar last week. The synopsis of the talk is: Experienced soldiers agree that logistics ranks as one of the most crucial elements contributing to military success. By David Beaumont.
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42 LIW Editorial – taking the national support base …. beyond the nation
Logistics in War
MARCH 10, 2018
As a military logistician, the idea of integrating logistics as part of a coalition is hardly relevatory. Most Western militaries have spent the last twenty years of operations in lockstep with one another accepting that there are always a range of difficulties. Most of all, what is the impact upon military strategy?
Realising the sustainable joint land force
Logistics in War
JULY 26, 2018
Two decades ago, as Western militaries confronted a new strategic paradigm with declarations that a ‘revolution in military affairs’ was underway, the US Army Chief of Staff General Reimers declared: ‘There will not be a revolution in military affairs unless there is a revolution in military logistics’ (1996).
Shipping Industry News
Trans Global Auto Logistics
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
The ongoing presence of COVID-19 continues to negatively impact charter rates, operating expenses, staffing, and logistics planning. At present, shipping companies around the globe are now dealing with a significant employee shortfall in hiring and retaining crew members due to the Russia-Ukraine war. Shipping Industry News: The Good.
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97 Editorial: Continuing the discussion on sustaining self-reliance
Logistics in War
APRIL 18, 2019
At the seminar there was little pretence that a military of the size and resources of the ADF could sustain its strategic and operational ambitions independent of its allies. Operations in the Middle-east were supported by traditional supply chains. In viewing the presentations of the seminar, this view seemed to be confirmed.
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An Interview with Team True Patriot Love on Invictus Games
Morai Logistics
OCTOBER 24, 2017
TPL is an organization that works closely with the Canadian Armed Forces, Department of Veteran Affairs and local grassroots organizations to clearly identify the most urgent needs of Canadian military families on a national scale, while avoiding duplication of efforts between all organizations. Get involved.
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60 Every logistician must write
Logistics in War
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
This post, shared with the Australian Army’s ‘Cove’ , gives three reasons why military professionals should write. Like Major-General Field, I have written extensively on my chosen topic area – military logistics – through blogs, journal articles and academic-level papers. By David Beaumont.
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Logistics interoperability, deterrence and resilience – why working as allies matters now more than ever
Logistics in War
JANUARY 30, 2020
In 2018, Australia and the United States finished celebrating ‘100 years of Mateship,’ noting our distinguished history of operating alongside each other since World War I. The logistics and sustainment arrangements made now determine what is practically possible when military options are ultimately required by governments.
How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician ? Part One
Logistics in War
JUNE 19, 2018
Are we talking about military staff only, does the definition include acquisition specialists, what about health professionals, and are we interested in Service logisticians operating at the tactical level? Operational experiences, set in this strategic and organisational climate, accentuated the evolutionary path.
Australian Army Logistics Training Centre Fiction and Imagery Competition
Logistics in War
APRIL 12, 2018
The Australian Army Training Centre, the ‘home of military logistics’ for the Australian Army, is holding an inaugural writing and multimedia competition. Fortunately, you can help the Australian Army visualise and think differently about the near future, and the battlefields it may face!
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