In the military case, I strongly recommend Supplying War by Martin van Creveld. It is a history, but systematically demolishes popular misconceptions about how supplies work in the military. It also completely changed my perspective of several important events, foremost among them Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and Operation Overlord in WWII.
Otherwise, I think that logistics is mostly divided up on the private side into different specializations by industry. For using the existing logistical infrastructure to manage supply, there is Supply Chain Management; international shipping and the railways are their own specializations; I suspect that things like building truckyards is actually a subtask of owning a trucking company more than anything else.
This calls for a high-level survey of the field, I think. Putting it on the TODO.
In the military case, I strongly recommend Supplying War by Martin van Creveld. It is a history, but systematically demolishes popular misconceptions about how supplies work in the military. It also completely changed my perspective of several important events, foremost among them Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and Operation Overlord in WWII.
Otherwise, I think that logistics is mostly divided up on the private side into different specializations by industry. For using the existing logistical infrastructure to manage supply, there is Supply Chain Management; international shipping and the railways are their own specializations; I suspect that things like building truckyards is actually a subtask of owning a trucking company more than anything else.
This calls for a high-level survey of the field, I think. Putting it on the TODO.