Logistics And The Army Train

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

4.4 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2014

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Josho once more hosts this episode joined by Murray, Michael and Lindsay.

"Looking at ancient warfare through the lens of a logistician and discussing the army train provides a unique way of understanding combat operations. It is often said that amateurs discuss tactics and professionals discuss logistics. No combat operation would happen without the support of supplies, equipment, men, animals, and materiel to sustain those operations"

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
0:15.4	ancient warfare forum, which you can find a link to at www.com.
0:22.3	You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:33.2	Good day, welcome again to the Ancient Warfare podcast.
0:37.4	Today we're going to talk about Ancient warfare issue 7.4 logistics and the army train.
0:43.3	I'm Yosha Browse and joining me again are our members of the regular panel,
0:48.3	Lindsay Powell, Michael Taylor and Marie Down.
0:52.3	This issue was a difficult one to,
0:56.0	when I was confronted with it, because this was still an issue that was originally created
1:01.0	when Yosper was still doing Ancient Author magazine.
1:05.0	I was sort of sad off with most of the themes for volume 7.
1:09.0	Starting with volume 8, all the themes are basically my own
1:12.6	fault, with thanks to the readers of course. And this issue, the theme when I saw it, I was thinking,
1:19.6	oh my goodness, this is going to be an incredible difficult one to find decent articles
1:24.6	for, and I got a relatively large amount of proposals, most of them
1:29.3	also interesting, though it didn't prove to be as much of the challenge as I thought,
1:32.3	even though of course there are loads of problems that I touched upon in the articles
1:37.3	that we were undoubtedly returned to in this podcast.
1:40.3	The end result is a fairly wide-ranging number of articles dealing with problems relating
1:47.0	to logistics, movement of the army, and problems of supply, ranging from the Assyrians,
1:55.0	to touch on something early, the Babylonians, even to some Greek stuff and Persian stuff, and of course
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