When Military Moves A War, There Are No Shortcuts -- New York Times
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq — Early this year a “fob in a box” — military slang for 80 shipping containers with all the tents, showers and construction material needed to set up a remote forward operating base — was put on trucks here for the trip from one war to another.
Left over and never used in Iraq, the fob rumbled north to Turkey, east through Georgia and Azerbaijan, by ship across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, then south on the old Soviet rail lines of Uzbekistan into northern Afghanistan. There — the end of a seven-nation, 2,300-mile, two-and-a-half-month odyssey — it was assembled just weeks ago as home for several hundred of the thousands of American forces entering the country.
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My Comment: Napoleon was right .... an army moves "on its stomach". The logistics of moving armies has been a part of mankind's history since the begging of time .... but the logistics of moving today's armies is even greater because of the "extra" equipment that needs to be moved. The New York Times does an adequate job in covering this story.
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