The author of this book traces the pattern of the part played by logistics in armed conflict, from antiquity to the present day. The main emphasis of the book is on campaigns dating from the Korean War of 1950 onwards, but three selected campaigns from World War II produce a run-in for what is to follow - as indeed does his briefer coverage of earlier conflicts. As a former brigade commander in the Falklands War of 1982, Thompson draws a picture of what was, in effect, a microcosm of a much larger affair, the special circumstances of that experience offering a wide spectrum of logistic problems. He concludes with a look at the war on the Central Front that never was, and casts a glance into the future in the light of the impending changes for the defence of Europe.
- ISBN10 0080409776
- ISBN13 9780080409771
- Publish Date July 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 May 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint Brassey's (UK) Ltd
- Edition English ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English