Название: Logistics: The Key to Victory
Автор: Jeremy Black
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military/Naval Institute Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 240
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

All commanders know that an army (or navy) cannot operate without supplies, yet most aspects of war studies emphasize strategy, tactics, weaponry, and command. Jeremy Black fills a gap in war studies with logistics as a huge subject at the center of all conflict, globally and historically.

The focus is on key conflicts, developments, and concepts--illustrating the vital role of logistics with technologies changing but underlying issues remaining constant. Here is a world history of logistics--a veritable compendium--but within a detailed and comprehensive but concise text. Factors affecting logistics include, for example, climate, geography, food supplies, welfare of troops, payment, transport, communications, terrain and distance, but also government policy, stability, and financial conditions. All are considered, including theoretical and practical factors of supply, from classical, ancient, early and medieval times, to modern eras of industrial warfare, especially with oil and steam, and scientific and technical advances-- even cyber warfare and smart weapons.

Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 To the Fall of Constantinople, 1453
Chapter 2 From the Fall of Constantinople to the End of Ming China, 1453–1644
Chapter 3 From the End of Ming China to the Fall of Safavid Persia, 1644–1722
Chapter 4 From the Fall of Safavid Persia to the Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, 1722–92
Chapter 5 From the Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars to the Age of Steam, 1792–1850
Chapter 6 From the Age of Steam to the First World War, 1850–1914
Chapter 7 The First World War, 1914–18
Chapter 8 The Interwar Period, 1918–39
Chapter 9 The Second World War, 1939–1945
Chapter 10 The Cold War and Beyond, 1945–2021
Chapter 11 Into the Future
Chapter 12 Conclusions
Notes
Selected Further Reading








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