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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3]. This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based.

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Learning to live in a logistician’s world – strategic logistics and the future of military resilience

Logistics in War

This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. There is little doubt that the topics of logistics and supply-chain resilience court conversations beyond that of military logistics communities. By David Beaumont.

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Start. Just Start – PME and the fear of writing.

Logistics in War

This could have come from a deployment, or as a consequence of serving in the different units and headquarters of the military. This interest in professional mastery is not restricted to military circles, and I have observed that many professions have started to take an interest, especially in the last decade or so.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. When capability and attitude are misaligned, and where understanding is deficient, it is inevitable that the investment of time, effort and resources into military readiness is wasted.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. All logistics processes at the strategic level are joint; moreover they require military and public service input. The nature of military involvement.

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What an operation twenty years ago can tell us about preparedness now – lessons from INTERFET in 1999

Logistics in War

The ADF had smart people, well-intentioned leaders both military and civilian, and was supported as best as possible from a Department that grappled with a complex and complicated mix of national circumstances in preceding years. Beware paying for future capability with present-day preparedness . Perhaps, with some important caveats.

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The Most Important and Most Misunderstood Concept in Business - Opportunity Cost

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If you assume that is true then where is the analysis of what the dollar or minute could be doing? The concept of NPV (Net Present Value) tries to get at this. If they cannot answer that question, then they have not done good project analysis and they are not allocating scarce resources efficiently.