The Sinews of War: Army Logistics 1175-1953

Logistics is a subject which few people, including professional soldiers, have thoroughly understood. Yet logistics must support both tactical operations and the day-to-day life of the Army in the same way that a well-run household supports the people who live in it. Professor Huston, who has served in tactical units in wartime and has studied logistics in both war and peace, as a military man and a civilian has prepared a clear and comprehensive history of U.S. Army logistics from the time of the American Revolution through the Korean War. He shows the role of all aspects of logistics –supply; transportation; evacuation; and hospitalization; and service – in peace, and in war, and in systematic fashion traces the development of the Army’s logistical system. The Sinews of War is offered to professional military men in all the armed services, and to thoughtful students of problems of national defense, as an essential contribution to their education. Author Bio Dr. James A. Huston, professor of history at Purdue University, received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Indiana University, and the Ph.D. from New York University. He has done graduate work at Oxford University and at the University of Fribourg. He has been the Ernest J. King, Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College and a NATO Fellow. In the summer of 195 Dr. Huston was Director for the National Defense Education Act History Institute held at Purdue University. For the academic year 1966-67 he was a member of the faculty at the National War College, Washington, D.C. Dr. Huston served with the 134th Infantry in the European Theater of Operations during World War II as a rifle battalion operations officer and is now a colonel of Infantry in the Active Reserve. He is the author of Combat History of the 134th Infantry , Biography of a Battalion, and Across the Face of France, as well as numerous articles on military and international affairs.