Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers.

I'm your host, Murray Darm. I'm the assistant editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And as you can see, I am flying solo again.

So in a moment, I'm going to answer one of our viewers' questions.

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He asks, or she maybe, asks, what

steps did ancient commanders take to ensure their army's logistics were in order?

And this is one of those questions which tends to be invisible in our sources.

It's not something that the ancient authors considered exciting to write about, and so it tends to be invisible.

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