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Elements of Military Art and Science

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. LOGISTICS. III. We have defined logisties to be that branch of the military art which embraces all the practical details.of moving and supplying armies. The term is derived from the title of a French general officer, (major-general des logis,) who was formerly charged with directing the marches, encampments, and lodging of the troops. It has been still further extended by recent military writers, and many of them now regard logistics as a distinct and important branch of the art. We shall here consider logistics as including the military duties ordinarily attributed to the pay, subsistence, clothing, medical, hospital, and transportation departments ; in fine, of all the civil and civico-military corps of the army. We shall therefore discuss under this head, the preparation of all the necessary materials for fitting out troops for a campaign and for putting them in motion; the regulating of marches, convoys, the means of transport for provisions, hospitals, munitions, and supplies of all kinds ; the preparation and protection of magazines ; the laying out of camps and cantonments ; in fine, every thing connected with preparing, moving, and guarding the impedimenta of an army. The officers connected with this branch of service must consult with the engineers in every thing relating to the defence of their depots, magazines, camps, cantonments, communications, and the passage of rivers, and in all that relates to their connection with the attack and defence of places : but in all that relates to strategy andtactics they must receive instructions directly from the chief of the staff of the army, who will have the general direction of every thing connected with logistics. Before commencing the operations of the campaign, or beginning the execution of the plans ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781429022064
  • Publisher: Applewood Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Applewood Books
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 484
  • Series Title: Military History (Applewood)
  • Weight: 704 gr
  • ISBN-10: 142902206X
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 226 mm


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