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The military might also be one of the only other places where you deal with the physical scale and speed of Walmart. They train to go set up a medium-sized city
by curiousllama 5y ago
The military might also be one of the only other places where you deal with the physical scale and speed of Walmart. They train to go set up a medium-sized city on 24hours notice. I can see why a logistics company like Amazon would see that as valuable!
- AmericanChopper 5y agoI read a lot of history books during the lockdowns, and it really illuminated for me how much of war boils down to logistics. You can’t expect to win battles without good logistics, but even if you do, your victories wont mean anything without good logistics. For instance Hannibal had basically defeated the Roman Republic at Cannae, but then spent the next 14 years meandering around Italy failing to reinforce or adequately resupply his army. Eventually leading to unconditional Carthaginian defeat. Much of the reason that neither the Ottomans or the Persians managed to properly defeat the other in their many wars came down to the difficult terrain that separates them cutting any advancing army off from proper reinforcements.