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Book SynopsisExplores whether advances in technology, from the railroad and the airplane to the nuclear weapon and the computer, have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.
Trade ReviewJobie Turner's findings - developed through five concise case studies that span two centuries - will be valuable to historians and military professionals alike. Thoughtful and thought-provoking,
Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh deserves a place next to Martin Van Creveld's
Supplying War." - Kevin C. Holzimmer, author of
General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War"An innovative approach to the subject. While each case study in itself can be regarded separately, taken all together Turner shows the eternal challenges that logistics poses for the conduct of war in any age." - Richard L. DiNardo, author of
Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism? Horses and the German Army of World War II"There are practicing military logisticians, and there are scholars who study military logistics. Only rarely does one find a military professional (in this case a US Air Force mobility commander) who is also a first-rate historian of the art and science of supplying combat forces in war and the ramifications for past, present, and future strategy. This is a unique work that deserves the widest audience." - Richard R. Muller, professor of history, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
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Feeding Victory is a welcome and thoughtful addition to the understanding and importance of military logistics. No other available book accomplishes what Colonel Turner achieves through his careful and insightful attention to the importance of military logistics from the French and Indian Wars to Vietnam, to what has changed, and to what remains the same." - Vice Admiral (ret.) Mark Harnitchek, former director of the Defense Logistics Agency and former vice commander of US Transportation Command
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Feeding Victory: Innovative Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh, Jobie Turner cogently argues what most other historians merely assert: that those military forces better supplied and fed win. Blending different sources and perspectives across centuries,
Feeding Victory explores the means and manners by which armies have achieved this paramount advantage and gives renewed meaning to the oft-ignored truism that amateurs study strategy but professionals study logistics. The chapter on Guadalcanal alone is worth the book's price." - Thomas Alexander Hughes, author of
Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life and
Over Lord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II
