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The Sinews of War - Army Logistics, 1775-1953 (Paperback)
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The Sinews of War - Army Logistics, 1775-1953 (Paperback)
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This work is a general historical survey of U.S. Army logistics. It
contributes a better understanding of the significance of logistics
in the American military experience, and provides an appreciation
of some of the Army's logistical problems in its conduct of war
from the Revolutionary War through the Korean War. Logistics covers
a vast range of subjects. The word logistics came into general
military use shortly before World War II, although its substance
has been of concern as long as there have been armies. In Army
usage it has come to include four principal elements in the support
of military operations: (1) supply, including determination of
requirements, procurement, and distribution; (2) transportation;
(3) evacuation and hospitalization; and (4) service. In short,
logistics is the application of time and space factors to war. It
is the economics of warfare, and it comprises, in the broadest
sense, the three big M's of warfare - materiel, movement, and
maintenance. If international politics is the "art of the
possible," and war is its instrument, logistics is the art of
defining and extending the possible. It provides the substance that
physically permits an army to "live and move and have its being."
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