Brigadier Julian Thompson who served as an infantry brigade commander during the Falk Lands War of 1982 decided to write a book at the end of that conflict. The book is titled; Logistics: The Lifeblood of War. This is one of the most well written books and I have gone back to read it twice.
Thompson writes about how the science of logistics around war has evolved over time to the present age. This science cannot escape the annals of history when one writes about the development of Gaborone as the new seat of government when the administration of the country was transferred from Mafikeng in 1965.
The first major project that actually put Gaborone on the map was the construction of a railway line that was to become the Cape to Cairo rail project. This sliced through eastern Botswana and made tremendous changes in the way the economy of this country functioned before it was built.
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