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Loading... Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to PattonCommand in War by Martin Van Creveld. I read his Supplying War, so I picked up this one on a second-hand online bookstore. I'm getting through Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin Van Creveld - got it for $12.99 from one of the local discount bookstores and been loving it since I started reading it. I never felt as though logistics could be so engrossing.
I guess I am a little weird. ... Private law The Dred Scott case
347 Civil procedure & courts John Marshall: definer of a nation
355 Military science Supplying war
380 Commerce, communications, transport Origins of the European economy
390 Customs, etiquette, folklore The evolution of political society
392 Customs ... ... Storm, but I haven't yet and am looking forward to a treatment of the logistics operations of the ongoing Iraq war.
Supplying War was the standard text on logistics in my Strategy and Policy course at the Naval War College in the late 1980s - a good book.
Retreat from Gettysburg ... ... Series (The Sinews of War: Army Logistics 1775-1953)
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
Weapons and Equipment of the Victorian Soldier
Does anyone else have suggested reading?
... Gary Klein's works on pattern-based decision-making is also highly relevant.
Logistics: Again, van Creveld. Supplying War is a good introduction to tail-heavy armies. In the Ancient World, Tim's favourite about Alexander's logistics by Donald W. Engels or the discussion of ... ... 1500-1600, plate B), the vegetarian food issue of the Roman legionnary or the indestructible ACW hardtack. As Creveld's Supplying war expertly tells, transporting food (and hay) was the limiting factor up until the modern era (when it was supplanted by first ammo, then fuel). The chief ... ... of specialization.
I can highly recommend Martin Van Creveld's books, esp. Command in War (very Keeganesque) and Supplying war about logistics . The classics by Liddell Hart have aged well, eg Strategy.
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