ABSTRACT
While the answer is simple, it represents but a small part of the complexity lying behind military activity. Time, planning and patience are required to organize and coordinate, issue orders for, supervise, correct and control the movement of hundreds, thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of human beings, their war paraphernalia, means of sustenance and manner of dress, and ultimate replacement by other human beings. Baron Henri de Jomini, in his Precis de l'art de la guerre (1836), included even reconnaissance and staff work as well as the efforts of engineers in his definition of logistics. We seek here to understand the complications that the broad domain of logistics seeks to solve.
