Description
Book SynopsisSuccessful 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
