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The Big 'L': American Logistics in World War II
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- GenresWorld War II
447 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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August 8, 2026
Compared to combat, logistics is unglamorous. Without logistics, combat is impossible. The reduction and destruction of the war-fighting capability of Germany and Japan is a logistical problem. This book covers the issues of American logistics in World War II.
This book is more about economics than anything else. The entire American economy was put in service of creating, transporting, and supplying ammunition, fuel, and food to the "tip of the spear".
A common refrain of economists is that planned economies always fail. Their prime example is the
Soviet Union. The refrain is that a handful of central planners cannot comprehend such a complex machine as a nation's economy. Five-year plans always fail. This book proves this refrain to be false. A centrally planned economy can succeed, has succeeded.
In a 1640 collection of aphorisms, poet George Herbert wrote: "For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost." In World War II, it wasn't so much horseshoe nails that were important, but landing craft and jerry cans.
This book is more about economics than anything else. The entire American economy was put in service of creating, transporting, and supplying ammunition, fuel, and food to the "tip of the spear".
A common refrain of economists is that planned economies always fail. Their prime example is the
Soviet Union. The refrain is that a handful of central planners cannot comprehend such a complex machine as a nation's economy. Five-year plans always fail. This book proves this refrain to be false. A centrally planned economy can succeed, has succeeded.
In a 1640 collection of aphorisms, poet George Herbert wrote: "For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost." In World War II, it wasn't so much horseshoe nails that were important, but landing craft and jerry cans.
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