War Is Boring

by DAVID AXE Air Force Magazine has identified the previously undisclosed company that uses a single Vietnam-era Caribou airlifter to make daredevil airdrops to the most remote U.S. bases in Afghanistan. It’s Flightworks, Inc.

My friend and sometimes publisher Patrick Truffer ruminates on my war-logistics book FROM A TO B.

Sean Meade over at Defense Technology International reviews FROM A TO B.

A snapshot of supply efforts at one remote coalition outpost in eastern Afghanistan illustrates the war’s daunting logistical challenges and the potential shortfalls once foreign troops withdraw in 2014.

By Amazon reviewer Josh Davis.

by DAVID AXE U.S. Marines lowered the American flag at Baghdad airport today, bringing the Iraq war to an official end. The conflict, which claimed 4,484 American lives and those of at least 100,000 Iraqis, may have ended with an understated ceremony — but the process of leaving Mesopotamia was anything but quiet. The U.S. [...]

A modest video trailer for my new book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY.

A paragraph or two a day from my forthcoming book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY.

A paragraph or two a day from my forthcoming book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY.

A paragraph or two a day from my forthcoming book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY.

by DAVID AXE A paragraph or two a day from my forthcoming book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY: In June 2009, in a nondescript field in a nondescript corner on the MIT campus, a mostly normal-looking forklift does what millions of forklifts do every day all over the world: [...]

A paragraph or two a day from my forthcoming book FROM A TO B: HOW LOGISTICS FUELS AMERICAN POWER AND PROSPERITY.