High Tech and The Usual Suspects: Dream Cars, Dreamliners and Logistics
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:29 am
This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services.
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. An army, a military, regardless of how high tech, how sophisticated it is, needs to eat. Patton famously said (in the movie at least): “My men can eat their belts, but my tanks gotta have gas.” As a former (not ex but former) Marine logistics officer, I used to calculate the amount of food and fuel a Marine Regimental Landing Team needed to operate successfully for days and weeks. The ... (read more)