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Another Look at Logistics
THE LIFEBLOOD OF WAR: Logistics in Armed Conflict. By MajGen Julian Thompson., RM(Ret). Brassey's Ltd., London, 1991, 390 pp., $39.95. (Member $35.95)
. . . I have no reason to believe that logistics will ever have much military sex appeal, except to serious soldiers, but this book is written in the hope that I am wrong.
So quips Julian Thompson, author of this superb analysis of the relationship between military logistics and strategy. He offers a loose set of rules on logistics as a component of strategy, patterns of logistical thinking and action from 700 B.C. to 1918, eight modern case studies, and some speculative thoughts...