Logistics Quotations
Posted by Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP)
“Because of my wartime experience, I am insistent on the point that logistics
know-how must be maintained, that logistic is second to nothing in importance in
warfare, that logistic training must be widespread and thorough, and that it is folly
to waste time on mediocre talent.”
-- Vice Admiral Robert B. Carney, USN
“Logistic considerations belong not only in the highest echelons of military
planning during the process of preparation for war and for specific wartime
operations, but may well become the controlling element with relation to timing
and successful operation.”
-- Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger, USN
"I don't know what the hell this ‘logistics’ is that Marshall is always talking about,
but I want some of it."
-- Fleet Admiral E. J. King: To a staff officer. (1942)
“Underway replenishment was the U.S. Navy’s secret weapon of World War II.”
-- Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN
“… the basic design and the control of the area logistic system must be in the
hands of the commander who will design, shift, and control the task forces in
accordance with the strategic and tactical needs of the situation.”
-- Rear Admiral Henry C. Eccles, USN
“… in its relationship to strategy, logistics assumes the character of a dynamic
force, without which the strategic conception is simply a paper plan.”
-- Commander C. Theo Vogelsang, USN
“Logistics is the stuff that if you don’t have enough of, the war will not be won as
soon as.”
-- General Nathaniel Green, Quartermaster, American Revolutionary
Army
