Feeding Victory

An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, “is a body of pure consumers”—and it is logistics that feeds this body’s insatiable appetite for men and materiel. Successful logistics—the transportation of supplies and combatants to battle—cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory , Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology, from the railroad and the airplane to the nuclear weapon and the comp