Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 8: Logistics (1997) / Chapter Skim
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With the Soviet Navy no longer a major threat, greater emphasis was placed on supporting Navy-Marine Corps task forces operating in the world's littoral regions, often as part of joint operations with other U.S. military services or in combined operations with other nations' militaries.
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business firms in reducing the cost of logistics provides evidence that more efficient naval logistics is possible. Thus the challenge is to create a logistic system that is more effective in providing timely support to naval forces, places fewer logistic activities at risk in a war zone, and costs less in the long run.
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When conducted on the scale required to support naval forces, logistics is the type of very large, complex undertaking that, to be successful, must be viewed as a set of enterprise processes. This report concentrates on the two most fundamental of logistic processes: (1)
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