Table of Contents

The Historiography Of Logistics * Logistics and the Aristocratic Idea of War Edward N. Luttwak * The History of Logistics and Supplying War John A. Lynn Medieval Logistics, 4001500 * Medieval Introduction * Byzantine Logistics: Problems and Perspectives Walter E. Kaegi * Logistics in Pre-Crusade Europe Bernard S. Bachrach * Naval Logistics in the Late Middle Ages: The Example of the Hundred Years War Timothy J. Runyan Early Modern Logistics, 15001815 * Early Modern IntroductionThe Logistics of Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century: The Spanish Perspective John F. Guilmartin Jr * Food, Funds, and Fortresses: Resource Mobilization and Positional Warfare in the Campaigns of Louis XIV J. A. Lynn * Logistical Crisis and the American Revolution: A Hypothesis John Shy Modern Logistics, 18151991 * Modern IntroductionThe Misfire of Civil War R&D Robert V. Bruce * Forging the Trident: British Naval Industrial Logistics, 19141918 Jon Tetsuro Sumida * Deuce and a Half: Selecting U.S. Army Trucks, 19201945 Daniel R. Beaver * War Plans and Politics: Origins of the American Base of Supply in Vietnam Joel D. Meyerson * Bibliography of Logistics from the Ancient Greeks to the 1980s George Satterfield.

About the Author

John A. Lynn, an expert on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare professor, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an adjunct professor at Ohio State University. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.