ABSTRACT
The historiography of logistics, of course, deals with the question of how war was prepared and supplied as opposed to why it was fought, what battles and campaigns were fought, and why they were won or lost. From the condottieri of the Renaissance to Patton, notable practitioners of war have strongly commended the study of military history as a guide to tactics, operations and strategy; and know that exactly the same advice was in other cultures. To be sure, modern historiography is supposed to be a branch of scholarship and not literature, and as such its aim must be to successively uncover better truths by applying the scientific method to the evidence, rather than to entertain. The military historiography presented represents another large step in the modernization of the subject by focusing on the managerial and technological questions that are the most relevant for our own meritocratic age, and that this reader for one also finds supremely interesting.
