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Página 81 - Logistics is that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers
Página 8 - War military strategy and preparation ill-equipped to handle 21st century missions, requirements, and demands. The US role in the post-Cold War world has changed dramatically. Military forces are no longer dedicated solely to deterring aggression but must respond to and support homeland defense and humanitarian missions. From peacekeeping to feeding starving nations, to conducting counterdrug operations, the military continues to adapt to evolving missions. Logistics infrastructure and processes...
Página 12 - motor vehicle" means any vehicle, self-propelled or drawn by mechanical power, designed and operated principally for highway transportation of property or passengers, exclusive of any...
Página 84 - ... National Defense University Press, 1987, xi. 2. Alan Gropman, ed, The Big L: American Logistics in World War II, Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1997, xiii. 3. Charles R. Shrader, US Military Logistics, 1607-1991, A Research Guide, New York: Greenwood Press, 1992, 3. 4. Shrader, 9. 5. John E. Jordan, Jr, and Thomas C. Lobenstein, "Technology Overview" from Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, ed, Lt Col David J.
Página 111 - National safety would be endangered by an air force whose doctrines and techniques are tied solely to the equipment and processes of the moment. Present equipment is but a step in progress, and any air force which does not keep its doctrines ahead of its equipment, and its vision far into the future, can only delude the nation into a false sense of security.
Página 84 - These are, by no means, all the criticisms of technology, but they serve to frame the basic objections. The counter argument to these criticisms would answer that technology is not unique in creating new and, often, more difficult problems, while solving old ones. Very much the same criticism could be aimed at all approaches to problem solving. No problem-solving approach yields simple, final answers to the basic problems of...
Página 161 - ... solutions to problems and design new or improved concepts, methods, systems, or policies that improve peacetime readiness and build war-winning logistics capabilities. Our key strength is our people. They're all professionals from logistics functions, operational analysis sections, and computer-programming shops. Virtually all of them have advanced degrees, some of which are doctorates. But more important, virtually all of them have recent field experience. They've been there and done that. They...
Página 8 - ... flat or declining defense budgets, force drawdowns, and base closures have all contributed to eliminating or restricting the infrastructure that made rapid expansion possible. Regardless, modern warfare demands huge quantities of fuel, ammunition, food, clothing, and equipment. All these commodities must be produced, purchased, transported, and distributed to military forces. And of course, the means to do this must be sustained.
Página 109 - What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Página 8 - Unfortunately, the historical tendency of both the political and military leadership to neglect logistics activities in peacetime and expand and improve them hastily once conflict has broken out may not be so possible in the future as it has in the past. A declining industrial base, flat or declining defense budgets, force drawdowns, and base closures have all contributed to eliminating or restricting the infrastructure that made rapid expansion possible. Regardless, modern warfare demands huge quantities...