| Description |
1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction to Transportation Concepts; Lines of Communication; Three Levels of War and Logistics Operations; Technology; Evolution of the Logistics Branches in the US Army: Legacy versus Function -- 2. Genesis of American Military Transportation; The Spanish–American War; Interwar Reforms; The Great War and Evolution into a Modern Army -- 3. WWII Asia Pacific Theater; Military Transportation Before the War; Southwest Pacific Area; New Guinea Campaign; Leyte; Luzon; Surrender and Retrograde; China Burma India Theater of Operation -- 4. North Africa to the European Theater; North Africa Theater of Operation; Sicily; Italy; Southern France; European Theater of Operation; Redeployment/Retrograde Europe -- 5. Cold War; Origins of the Cold War; Berlin Airlift; COMZ Europe; Pentomic Division; Korean War; The Ebb and Flow of the Maneuver Campaign, 1950; Stalemate and Sustainment Operations; Armistice; Retrograde and Cold War Korea; Technological Development; TC Aviation; Army Watercraft; DEW Line; DeLong Pier and Aerial Tramway -- 6. Vietnam War; Advisor Phase; Strategic Transportation; Strategic Deployment; Reception and Onward Movement; Sustainment; Second Increment; GOER; Expediting Sea Cargo; Third Buildup; Convoy Security; Riverine, JLOTS, and LAPES; Retrograde; Lesson -- 7. A New Army; Army Watercraft; Wheeled Vehicle Fleet; Operation Urgent Fury – Grenada 1983; USTRANSCOM; USSOCOM; Restructuring the Army and Theater Transportation; Army Aviation; Afloat Preposition Stocks; Chief of Transportation; Automation; Operation Just Cause – Panama; Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm -- 8. Military Operations Other Than War; Operation Restore Hope – Somalia; Operation Uphold Democracy – Haiti; RFID Technology; Operation Joint Endeavor – Bosnia–Herzegovina; Kosovo -- 9. Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan; Modularity; CDDOC; Expansion; Distribution; Northern Distribution Network; The Surge; Expeditionary Railway Center; Retrograde; Operation Drumbeat – Drawdown of Forces in Afghanistan -- 10. Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Scatter and OPLAN 1003V; Intrinsic Action; Deployment; Ground Offensive; Sustainment Matures; Modularity; Surge; Retrograde; Lessons -- 11. Rapid Port Opening; Operation Unified Response-Haiti; Consequences of Haiti; Operation United Assistance, West Africa; Hurricane Matthew, Haiti; Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico -- 12. The Way Ahead; Summary of the Past; Functional versus Multifunctional Logistics; Future Technology |
| Summary |
While there are many books on logistics which understand the concept of service and supply, none understand the important role of transportation in synchronizing logistics. Delivering Victory: The History of U.S. Military Transportationcovers the evolution of military transportation in the U.S. Armed Forces from the Spanish American War until the recent humanitarian missions to Haiti and West Africa to show how military transportation both synchronizes and creates logistics operations and therefore shapes the conduct of contingency and combat operations. Based on a rich selection of both primary and secondary sources, this book explores how the role of military transportation in the U.S has evolved, from disparate organizations to a synchronized logistics approach which connects dots from end to end, from fort and factory, and to the foxhole. Chronicling the birth of a separate branch of the Army during the Second World War and the creation of a strategic logistics technique headed by a single organization, the author demonstrates how transportation created logistics operations due to its inherent moving nature which allowed military operations to change in scale and magnitude. To this end, this book demonstrates how the ability to deploy and sustain mass around the globe became the hallmark of American military transportation capability, and an essential part of delivering victory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 19, 2020) |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- Transportation -- History
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Transportation, Military -- United States -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
9781787546035 |
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1787546039 |
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9781787546110 |
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178754611X |
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