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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] Australian Army unit load ammunition containers in a warehouse ready for delivery to artillery soldiers for the safe transport and storage of projectiles in the field.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

The “unit load” concept gained popularity and the use of pallets became widespread. By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail. In the 1940s and 1950s, the focus of logistics research was on how to use mechanization (e.g.,