Learning From Past Defence Logistics Experience: Is What is Past Prologue?

By David Moore, Jeffrey Bradford and Peter Antill
18 Jun 2004

Any consideration of military operations in the mid-to-late twentieth century should be tempered by logistical realities. For those nations who enjoy immediate territorial security, their national interests in the use of military force is often of a diffuse and geographically distant nature. Historical antecedents often influence political commitments. There therefore exists a corpus of knowledge that can assist the logistician in conducting operations far from national territory.

It is pertinent therefore, to examine a series of three case studies centred upon logistic issues that seek to examine the role of logistics by considering what have been regarded as the five principles of successful logistics, namely foresight, economy, flexibility, simplicity and cooperation.

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