Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The PresentMars must be fed. His tools of war demand huge quantities of fodder, fuel, ammunition, and food. All these must be produced, transported, and distributed to contending forces in the field. No one can doubt the importance of feeding Mars in modern warfare, and it takes no great effort to recognize that it has always been a major aspect of large scal |
Contents
Medieval Introduction | |
Problems and Perspectives Walter E Kaegi | |
Logistics in PreCrusade Europe Bernard S Bachrach | |
The Example of the Hundred Years | |
Early Modern Introduction | |
Resource Mobilization and Positional Warfare in | |
A Hypothesis John | |
Modern Introduction | |
The Misfire of Civil War RD Robert V Bruce | |
British Naval Industrial Logistics 19141918 Jon Tetsuro | |
Selecting U S Army Trucks 19201945 Daniel R Beaver | |
Origins of the American Base of Supply in Vietnam Joel | |
About the Book | |
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Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present John A Lynn No preview available - 1994 |
Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present John A. Lynn No preview available - 2020 |
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