Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army.(Bookshelf Ideas; Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Defense Transportation Journal | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

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 ...

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