![]() A common definition is: "That branch of military art which embraces the details of the transport, quartering, and supply of troops in military operations." As the word is used in the following pages, its meaning is even broader. The word "logistics" has been given many different shades of meaning. In Logistics in World War II: Final Report of the Army Service Forces, LeRoy Lutes gave the term a more expansive definition: ![]() The term became popularised during the Second World War. It also embraces the preparation and regulation of magazines, for opening a campaign, and all orders of march and other orders from the General-in-Chief relative to moving and supplying armies. It includes the operations of the ordnance, quartermaster's, subsistence, medical, and pay departments. It is properly that branch of the military art embracing all the details for moving and supplying armies. It is derived from Latin Logista, the Administrator or Intendant of the Roman armies. Farrow, and instructor in tactics at West Point provided this definition:īardin considers the application of this word by some writers as more ambitious than accurate. In Farrow's Military Encyclopedia (1895), Edward S. Rogers created a course on Naval Logistics at the Naval War College. In the English translation, the word became "logistics". ![]() It was in this sense that Antoine-Henri Jomini referred to the term in his Summary of the Art of War (1838). ![]() The term logistique soon came to refer to his duties. Around 1670, the French King Louis XIV created the position of Maréchal des logis, an officer responsible for planning marches, establishing camp sites, and regulating transport and supply. Another Latin root, log-, gave rise to logio, meaning to lodge or dwell, around 1380, and became the French verb loger, meaning "to lodge". In turn this comes from the Greek logos, which refers to the principles of thought and action. The word "logistics" is derived from the Greek adjective logistikos meaning "skilled in calculating", and the corresponding Latin word logisticus. ![]()
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