Naval Handbook As Bearing On National Defense And the European War

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LINES OF COMMUNICATION. Both at sea and on shore, lines of communication are vitally important. They are the lines by which a force keeps in touch with its source of supplies. To sever these lines is like "ringing" a tree the sap cannot rise and the tree dies. If we sent an expedition against, say the Azores, and an enemy got between that force and our Atlantic Coast, so that colliers, supply ships, ammu- nition ships, would be captured in trying to reach the fleet, the expedition would surely
...fail and the ships would probably be sunk or captured. That is why, on shore, it is so important to "get astride" of railways. Logistics are vital.
What is the science of logistics? Logistics is the science of supplying fleets or armies. In any naval operation questions of supply must be studied "with prayer and fasting. " Have we colliers enough 4 ? Can we keep the fleet supplied with ammunition? Are there convenient harbors where the ships can anchor and coal? Will the food supply be ample? In the gi- gantic operations abroad such questions have been ^ NAVAL HANDBOOK paramount.


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