Logistics: The Key to Victory
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.
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Logistics: The Key to Victory
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.
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Logistics: The Key to Victory

Logistics: The Key to Victory

by Jeremy Black
Logistics: The Key to Victory

Logistics: The Key to Victory

by Jeremy Black

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399006019
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 10/15/2021
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Black has written widely on British and world history and politics, and international relations, from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present. He is emeritus professor of history at Exeter Universityand a senior fellow at both the Policy Exchange and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Preface viii

Abbreviations x

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 To the Fall of Constantinople, 1453 1

Chapter 2 From the Fall of Constantinople to the End of Ming China, 1453-1644 16

Chapter 3 From the End of Ming China to the Fall of Safavid Persia, 1644-1722 44

Chapter 4 From the Fall of Safavid Persia to the Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, 1722-92 57

Chapter 5 From the Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars to the Age of Steam, 1792-1850 80

Chapter 6 From the Age of Steam to the First World War, 1850-1914 97

Chapter 7 The First World War, 1914-18 116

Chapter 8 The Interwar Period, 1918-39 129

Chapter 9 The Second World War, 1939-1945 141

Chapter 10 The Cold War and Beyond, 1945-2021 156

Chapter 11 Into the Future 168

Chapter 12 Conclusions 177

Notes 183

Selected Further Reading 207

Index 209

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