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Article: Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army.(Bookshelf Ideas; Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Defense Transportation Journal
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- September 1, 2004
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Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, by Don Engels, University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 0520042727, $18.95.
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, by Martin van Creveld, Cambridge University Press, 1979, ISBN 0521297931, $30.00.
I was looking through my own library of logistics books and came across these two classics. Perhaps because the theme of this year's Forum is "Shaping the Future," I thought it might be interesting to revisit the past just a bit. Indeed, while paging through both of them, I was struck by how relevant they still are to anyone interested in the history of military logistics and how the ...