Powerlift--Getting to Desert Storm Strategic Transportation and Strategy in the New World Order

Name: Powerlift--Getting to Desert Storm Strategic Transportation and Strategy in the New World Order
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ISBN: 9780275946425

ISBN-10: 0275946428

ISBN-13: 9780275946425

Edition: 1993

Authors: Doug Menarchik

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Logistics, the movement of forces to battlefields, their supply, and on-going support, is critical to military success. Although this principle is theoretically accepted, the importance of being well-prepared to rapidly transport troops and supplies to distant crisis points has not been complemented, as Menarchik shows, by adequate lift capabilities. The author uses the six-month buildup to Desert Storm as proof that the United States needs to increase the priority of logistics in strategy and improve its strategic transport capabilities, especially "surge" strategic lift. Current transport capabilities will not be positioned or structured to respond effectively to the contingencies…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 9/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction Logistics


America's Half-War Strategy and the Gulf Deploying the Shield to the Desert Building the Offensive


Option Grand Strategy Decision #3


Desert Storm Strategic Transportation and Strategy in Desert


Shield and Desert Storm Annotated


Bibliography


Index