Like all wars, logistics was key to Desert Storm. Granted, when it was time to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait, men and machines did the fighting; however, victory is not lessened by acknowledging the extensive logistics infrastructure built in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO) in the six months prior to actual combat is what made victory possible. The simple truth is modern, high-technology weapons systems and the highly-trained men and women who operate and maintain them have voracious logistics support requirements.
Logistics support and its impact on military operations has been a fact of life in armies since the...
The colonel looked up from the unfolded map lying on the hood of his command vehicle. He had been earnestly studying it by flashlight and, after conferring with his GPS transponder, concluded his regiment was where it should be. The armored division his regiment was part of had been tasked to penetrate a loosely-held enemy sector and plunge at top speed to grid coordinates X-Ray 14--about 150 mi les behind enemy lines (well behind their third echelon forces), where they would form the "anvil" upon which the enemy, trapped between them, would be "hammered" by an armored corps attack which...