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Updated: May 12, 2025
The choice of the decisive point was the result of a skillful application of the principles of strategy; and the arrangements for moving the troops give us an example of logistics which originated in his own closet.
Another no less extraordinary example of the importance of good logistics was afforded at the battle of Leipsic.
If the term logistics includes all this, the two works of the Archduke Charles, the voluminous treatises of Guibert, Laroche-Aymon, Bousmard, and Ternay, all taken together, would hardly give even an incomplete sketch of what logistics is; for it would be nothing more nor less than the science of applying all possible military knowledge.
To amass military power without regard to our economic capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another. Both military and economic objectives demand a single national military policy, proper coordination of our armed services, and effective consolidation of certain logistics activities. We must eliminate waste and duplication of effort in the armed services.
And in the same way as that in which the bureaus and offices perform the calculations and executive functions of logistics, for furnishing the necessary material of all kinds, the fleet performs those of tactics.
II and Address to the Army Orders to march across the mountains Discussion of them Changed to route by water and rail Ninety-mile march Logistics Arriving in Washington Two regiments reach Pope Two sent to Manassas Jackson captures Manassas Railway broken McClellan at Alexandria Engagement at Bull Run Bridge Ordered to Upton's Hill Covering Washington Listening to the Bull Run battle Ill news travels fast.
This does not mean that strategy should hold itself aloof from logistics and make arbitrary demands upon it; for such a procedure would result in making demands that logistics could not supply; or, through an underestimate of what logistics can supply, in refraining from demanding as much as could be supplied.
The most tedious part is the logistics the arrangements for supplying the fleet on the way and in the distant theatre of operations with the necessary provisions, equipment, and ammunition and, above all, the fuel.
From this point of view, strategy plans and guides all the acts of navies, delegating one part of the practical work needed to carry out those plans to logistics, and the other part to tactics.
They both seem to rejoice at what has come to pass, and do not trouble themselves about the logistics of history.
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