Supplying War¶
van Creveld, M. (1977). Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Operational Overextension
- In military operations — the canonical case — a force advances beyond what its supply train, communications, medical evacuation, and replacement flow can sustain, documented from Napoleon's Russian campaign to Operation Barbarossa to Market Garden.
This sourceDocuments how campaigns from Napoleon's Russian campaign to Operation Barbarossa outran their logistics, the canonical military overextension cases.
- In military operations — the canonical case — a force advances beyond what its supply train, communications, medical evacuation, and replacement flow can sustain, documented from Napoleon's Russian campaign to Operation Barbarossa to Market Garden.
- Operational Reach
- The support tail — fuel, ammunition, food, spare parts, replacements — flowed from railheads far to the west, and the support-decay function was brutal: as the spearhead drove east, supplies had to cross ever-longer distances over a road network that degraded to mud, and across a rail-gauge break (German trains could not run on the wider Soviet gauge without re-laying track), so deliverable tonnage at the front fell sharply with distance from the last converted railhead.
This sourceAnalyzes the logistics of Operation Barbarossa, including the Soviet rail-gauge break and falling deliverable tonnage with distance, fixing the culminating point short of Moscow.
- The support tail — fuel, ammunition, food, spare parts, replacements — flowed from railheads far to the west, and the support-decay function was brutal: as the spearhead drove east, supplies had to cross ever-longer distances over a road network that degraded to mud, and across a rail-gauge break (German trains could not run on the wider Soviet gauge without re-laying track), so deliverable tonnage at the front fell sharply with distance from the last converted railhead.
Domain-specific¶
- Line of Operation
- But by the December drive on Moscow (Operation Typhoon) the Centre axis had outrun a supply system hampered by the Soviet broad-gauge railways and worn-out vehicles: the advance culminated short of the objective and was thrown back
This sourceVan Creveld's logistics analysis of Barbarossa - the semi-motorized army's transport and rail constraints and the unsupportability of the drive on Moscow; the Soviet counteroffensive that threw the advance back is campaign history from other work.
- But by the December drive on Moscow (Operation Typhoon) the Centre axis had outrun a supply system hampered by the Soviet broad-gauge railways and worn-out vehicles: the advance culminated short of the objective and was thrown back
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