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Successful logistics cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Conestoga versus Canoes: Lake George, 1755-1759
  • 2. Steam on Steam in 1917: The Western Front
  • 3. Staving Starvation: The Battle for Guadalcanal, 1942-1943
  • 4. Summer and Winter on Soviet Steppes: Stalingrad, 1942-1943
  • 5. Khe Sanh, 1967-1968: The Triumph of the Narrative
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Technologies of Transportation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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        Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
        Publication Date: 6/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780700634026, 978-0700634026
        ISBN10: 0700634029
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        Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Successful logistics cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • 1. Conestoga versus Canoes: Lake George, 1755-1759
        • 2. Steam on Steam in 1917: The Western Front
        • 3. Staving Starvation: The Battle for Guadalcanal, 1942-1943
        • 4. Summer and Winter on Soviet Steppes: Stalingrad, 1942-1943
        • 5. Khe Sanh, 1967-1968: The Triumph of the Narrative
        • Conclusion
        • Appendix: Technologies of Transportation
        • Notes
        • Bibliography
        • Index

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