Logistics Is NATO's Achilles Heel In Afghanistan

A convoy transporting fuel and soldiers stops briefly during a light dust storm, as the convoy travels to Forward Operating Base Lagman, Afghanistan, April 10, 2005, where the U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry (Airborne) assumed command and control from the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, in Afghanistan's Zabul province. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jon Arguello

Logistical Difficulties in Afghanistan -- Captain's Journal

“Clearly, logistics is the hard part of fighting a war.”
- Lt. Gen. E. T. Cook, USMC, November 1990

“Gentlemen, the officer who doesn’t know his communications and supply as well as his tactics is totally useless.”
- Gen. George S. Patton, USA

“Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible.”
- ADM Hyman Rickover, USN

“There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.”
- Carl von Clausevitz

“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…”
- Sun Tzu

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My Comment: This is the Achilles Heel for NATO in Afghanistan.