Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by hvs on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:16AM
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That was discussed in the article.
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by realusername on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:08AM
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"Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics"
Napoleon
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by tristramb on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:13AM
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He learnt the hard way (as did all those who followed him into Russia)
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by orthoxerox on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:08AM
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Napoleon planned his Russian campaign extensively: he had supply hubs set up all over the Duchy of Warsaw, with feeder routers from Prussia keeping them full.
What he didn't anticipate was how bad the roads in Russia would be and how long the Russian army would retreat along them. You can't resupply an army that is marching on a narrow dirt road through a forest because it's blocking its own supply lines.
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by lostlogin on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:37PM
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If you’re going to Russia for the winter, have somewhere to stay and take a jacket. Napoleon screwed up the logistics with all his assumptions.
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by orthoxerox on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:38PM
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Napoleon lost the bulk of his army in the summer.
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by ksd482 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:58PM
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She specifically said "contemporary lesson" while citing the original WW2 lesson on logistics.
By contemporary lesson I assume she means similar lesson but more recent and keeping modern world/logistics in mind.
Re:The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break i...
by jillesvangurp on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:05AM
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If you know your military history, it's a lesson military planners learn with essentially every war that is then forgotten when the next generation of military planners and politicians come along.
Both Russia and the US learned expensive lessons in Afghanistan fairly recently. And yet here they are engaged in conflicts in Ukraine and Iran that don't seem to go as they planned.
Is this really a new lesson? I thought that was common knowlegede since WW2 especially with the events of the Eastern Front.