The Big 'L'

The Big 'L'
Author: National Defense University Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

Fourth Arm of Defense

Fourth Arm of Defense
Author: Salvatore R. Mercogliano
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2017
Genre: Merchant marine
ISBN: 9780945274964

This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.

Spearhead of Logistics

Spearhead of Logistics
Author: Benjamin King
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780160931192

Spearhead of Logistics is a narrative branch history of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps, first published in 1994 for transportation personnel and reprinted in 2001 for the larger Army community. The Quartermaster Department coordinated transportation support for the Army until World War I revealed the need for a dedicated corps of specialists. The newly established Transportation Corps, however, lasted for only a few years. Its significant utility for coordinating military transportation became again transparent during World War II, and it was resurrected in mid-1942 to meet the unparalleled logistical demands of fighting in distant theaters. Finally becoming a permanent branch in 1950, the Transportation Corps continued to demonstrate its capability of rapidly supporting U.S. Army operations in global theaters over the next fifty years. With useful lessons of high-quality support that validate the necessity of adequate transportation in a viable national defense posture, it is an important resource for those now involved in military transportation and movement for ongoing expeditionary operations. This text should be useful to both officers and noncommissioned officers who can take examples from the past and apply the successful principles to future operations, thus ensuring a continuing legacy of Transportation excellence within Army operations. Additionally, military science students and military historians may be interested in this volume.

Strategics, the Logistics-strategy Link

Strategics, the Logistics-strategy Link
Author: Kenneth N. Brown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 87
Release: 1987
Genre: Logistics
ISBN: 0788121472

In this essay, the author challenges cliches like that of the intricate relationship between strategy and logistics. Convinced that strategy and logistic should never be studied independently of one another, he blends two fields into a concept he labels "Strategics" - a concept which can be applied to military planning, force design, training, and tactics. Offers a sensible, pragmatic approach to the planning and conduct of military operations.

Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations

Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309307368

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.

Joint Vision 2020

Joint Vision 2020
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2000
Genre: Command and control systems
ISBN:

Joint Vision 2020 is the conceptual template for how we will channel the vitality of our people and leverage technological opportunities to achieve new levels of effectiveness in joint warfighting.