Logistics as an exigency.

Let behind us the slaughter of the World War II . Yet, fortunately, no more conflicts like this. But Humans still are Humans and with them the war. But the forms of wars change, the logistics adapt itself to the new challenges.


"Clearly, logistics is the hard part of fighting a war."
Lt. Gen. E. T. Cook November 1990

Nowadays, conflicts still exist, but them aspect have change. No more trenches wars, no more million soldiers, but more something like guerilla and maintains of the public order.
The modern armies need projection, in huge distance with lot and fragile material. Do you remember that in 50 BC needed a soldier 1kg supplies per day (mainly food), now he needs 140kg (1% foods, 99% materials).
As Lt. Gen. Fredrick Franks said during the Desert Storm Operation: "Forget logistics, you lose."
Next time, after this military approach of the logistics, I will write an article about the civil logistics.

I hope that this article interested you, please if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask me.