Feeding Mars : logistics in Western warfare from the Middle Ages to the present
John A. Lynn (Editor)
The essays in this book are a contribution to the study of the logistics of warfare as practiced by Western powers from medieval times to the Vietnam War. The tools of war demand huge quantities of fodder, fuel, ammunition and food -- 'feeding Mars' -- all of which must be produced, transported, and distributed to contending forces in the field. This book deals with the unglamorous and often-neglected topic of logistics, emphasizing the ways in which the essential materials of war have been produced, acquired, and distributed across a wide range of battlefields
History
xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780813317168, 9780813318653, 0813317169, 0813318653
26307640
The history of logistics and supplying war; Byzantine logistics; logistics in pre-crusade Europe; medieval maritime logistics; the logistics of war at sea in the 16th century - the Spanish perspective; food, funds, fortresses - resource mobilization and positional warfare in the wars of Louis XIV; logistical crisis and the American revolution - a hypothesis; the misfire of Civil War research and development; forging the trident - British naval industrial logistics, 1914-1918; deuce and a half; war plans and politics - origins of the American base of supply in Vietnam.