
“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”
As quoted in Sword Point (1988) by Harold Coyle, p. 141
A collection of quotes on the topic of logistics, call, making, doing.
“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”
As quoted in Sword Point (1988) by Harold Coyle, p. 141
Letters published in the Buffalo News (10 June 2001)
2000s
Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. x.
"Meltdown" http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm (1994)
Source: In artem analyticem Isagoge (1591), Ch. 1 as quoted by Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1934-1936) Appendix.
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 24; First paragraph of Ch. 2. System Organization, Scheduling, and Record-Keeping
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014)
The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation (1950)
Source: 1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969), p. 15
"No Future" (1995), in Fanged Noumena, p. 392
p, 125
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
"Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
1970s, 1980s
Bring on the Drones! (2013)
Other Writing
Remark made on 29 April, 2015, in a testimony to The House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation and Trade http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20150429/103392/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-RajaviM-20150429.pdf.
Source: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 14
So remote were the operations researchers from the social science community that economists wishing to enter the territory had to establish their own colony, which they called “management science”.
1960s-1970s, "Rational decision making in business organizations", Nobel Memorial Lecture 1978
2000s, 2003, Invasion of Iraq (March 2003)
Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction" http://www.simonosullivan.net/articles/red-army-faction.pdf
First Report, p. 34
U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946)
review of The Mercenary by Jerry Pournelle http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-hunter-and-the-bear, 2016
2010s
“I don't know much about this thing called logistics. All I know is that I want some.”
As quoted by Robert A. Fitton (editor) in Leadership: Quotations From the Military Tradition (1990), p. 172
New Year Message 2020 https://nationalparty.ie/new-year-message-2020/ (January 1, 2020)
Jessica Minh Anh (2020) cited in: " DHL put on a fashion show on the tarmac at New York's JFK Airport right in front of a Boeing 767 cargo plane https://www.businessinsider.com/dhl-fashion-show-at-jfk-airport-for-sustainability-logistics-2020-2" in Business Insider, 12 February 2020.