Delivering Victory : The History of U. S. Military Transportation.

Cover -- Delivering Victory -- Delivering Victory: The History of US Military Transportation -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- 1. Introduction to Transportation Concepts -- Lines of Communication -- Three Levels of War and Logistics Operations -- Technology -- Evolution of the Logistics Branches in the US Army: Legacy versus Function -- 2. Genesis of American Military Transportation -- The Spanish-American War -- Interwar Reforms -- The Great War and Evolution into a Modern Army -- Summary -- 3. WWII Asia Pacific Theater -- Military Transportation Before the War -- Southwest Pacific Area -- New Guinea Campaign -- Leyte -- Luzon -- Surrender and Retrograde -- Summary -- China Burma India Theater of Operation -- Summary -- 4. North Africa to the European Theater -- North Africa Theater of Operation -- Sicily -- Italy -- Southern France -- European Theater of Operation -- Redeployment/Retrograde Europe -- Conclusion -- 5. Cold War -- Origins of the Cold War -- Berlin Airlift -- COMZ Europe -- Pentomic Division -- Korean War -- The Ebb and Flow of the Maneuver Campaign, 1950 -- Stalemate and Sustainment Operations -- Armistice -- Retrograde and Cold War Korea -- Technological Development -- TC Aviation -- Army Watercraft -- DEW Line -- DeLong Pier and Aerial Tramway -- Summary -- 6. Vietnam War -- Advisor Phase -- Strategic Transportation -- Strategic Deployment -- Reception and Onward Movement -- Sustainment -- Second Increment -- GOER -- Expediting Sea Cargo -- Third Buildup -- Convoy Security -- Riverine, JLOTS, and LAPES -- Retrograde -- Lesson -- 7. A New Army -- Army Watercraft -- Wheeled Vehicle Fleet -- Operation Urgent Fury - Grenada 1983 -- USTRANSCOM -- USSOCOM -- Restructuring the Army and Theater Transportation -- Army Aviation -- Afloat Preposition Stocks -- Chief of Transportation -- Automation.

Operation Just Cause - Panama -- Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm -- Summary -- 8. Military Operations Other Than War -- Operation Restore Hope - Somalia -- Operation Uphold Democracy - Haiti -- RFID Technology -- Operation Joint Endeavor - Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Kosovo -- Summary -- 9. Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan -- Modularity -- CDDOC -- Expansion -- Distribution -- Northern Distribution Network -- The Surge -- Expeditionary Railway Center -- Retrograde -- Operation Drumbeat - Drawdown of Forces in Afghanistan -- Summary -- 10. Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Operation Scatter and OPLAN 1003V -- Intrinsic Action -- Deployment -- Ground Offensive -- Sustainment Matures -- Modularity -- Surge -- Retrograde -- Lessons -- 11. Rapid Port Opening -- Operation Unified Response-Haiti -- Consequences of Haiti -- Operation United Assistance, West Africa -- Hurricane Matthew, Haiti -- Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico -- Summary -- 12. The Way Ahead -- Summary of the Past -- Functional versus Multifunctional Logistics -- Future Technology -- Appendix -- Maps -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this book US Army Transportation Corps Historian, Richard E. Killblane, utitlizes the expertise of professionals with lived experience of synchronizing military transportation from end to end to uniquely explore how military transportation logistics have evolved during the last half of the 20th Century and beyond towards greater efficiency.

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