Comments on: Horses and men again

By: Investigations of a Dog » Six months is a long time

Investigations of a Dog » Six months is a long time — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:09:55 +0000

[...] I’m still hoping to do something with them. I have used the blog to publish some bits and pieces which I cut from an article because I didn’t think they were good enough or relevant enough. [...]

By: Gavin Robinson

Gavin Robinson — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:00:28 +0000

I think it’s easy to forget that moving and supplying an army is very difficult and complicated. Maybe historians are more interested in failures than successes, and there’s also a tendency (especially in popular books) to just attribute successful logistics to the brilliance of the general in question. One of the things that makes Aryeh Nusbacher’s work so interesting is that his thesis tried to investigate the successful feeding of the New Model Army even though it hasn’t left many traces in the official records.

By: battlefieldbiker

battlefieldbiker — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:24:45 +0000

Hey Gavin,
Very interesting. I work in Retail operations (warehouses, call centres, supply chains, etc) and I find the discussion over “leadership” and “customer service” and “marketing” to have this same simplicity. I think the practical operational measures and tactics are just too hard for many to fathom as an interplay of specific time-frames, geographic locations, cash-flow and seasons, among many other factors.
Good and important work.