- Principles
- the disciplines of wars
- the Assyrians 700 BC to the Armistice 1918 AD
- three campaigns in a global war - North Africa 1942-43, Italy 1943-45, Burma 1942-45
- unpreparedness and speedy recovery - Korea 1950-53
- insufficiency and super-abundance - Indo-China and Vietnam 1946-75
- into Africa - Sinai to Suez, the Yom Kippur War 1973
- war in a snipe march - Bangla Desh 1971
- amphibious logistics - the Falklands 1982
- supplying the war that never was - yet
- crystal ball gazing - future wars and their support.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
The author of this book traces the pattern of the part played by logistics in armed conflict, from antiquity to the present day. The main emphasis of the book is on campaigns dating from the Korean War of 1950 onwards, but three selected campaigns from World War II produce a run-in for what is to follow - as indeed does his briefer coverage of earlier conflicts. As a former brigade commander in the Falklands War of 1982, Thompson draws a picture of what was, in effect, a microcosm of a much larger affair, the special circumstances of that experience offering a wide spectrum of logistic problems. He concludes with a look at the war on the Central Front that never was, and casts a glance into the future in the light of the impending changes for the defence of Europe.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
