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Introduction

1. The background of two centuries

• The tyranny of plunder
• Rise of the magazine system
• The age of linear warfare
• 'An umbilical cord of supply'?

2. 'An army marches on its stomach!'

• The end of siege warfare
• Boulogne to Austerlitz
• Many roads to Moscow
• Conclusions

3. When demigods rode rails

• Supply from Napoleon to Moltke
• A joker in the pack
• Railways against France
• Logistics of the armed horde
• Did wheels roll for victory

4. The wheel that broke

• State of the art
• Logistics of the Schlieffen Plan
• The plan modified
• Logistics during the campaign of the Marne
• State of the railroads
• Strength and reinforcement of the right wing
• Conclusions

5. Russian roulette

• Problems of the semi-motorized army
• Planning for 'Barbarossa'
• Leningrad to the Dnieper
• 'Storm to the gates of Moscow'?
• Conclusions

6. Sirte to Alamein

• Desert complications
• Rommel's first offensive
• 1942: Annus Mirabilis
• Conclusions; supply and operations in Africa

7. War of the accountants

• The pitfalls of planning
• Normandy to the Seine
• 'Broad Front' or 'knifelike thrust'?
• Conclusions

8. Logistics in perspective

Postscript: Where are we now?

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Main purpose:

This chapter gives an overview of German logistics in the beginning phases of WW2, and then uses that overview to discuss the planning and execution of the logistics for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia.