In the midle years of the twentieth century, Americans were attempting to adjust their thinking to the possession of vast power and to the responsibilities that went with it.
This book is what the Spaniards call an "olla podrida" (or stew) of letters, memoranda and things vividly remembered although never written down-"memories and vagaries", as Axel Munthe puts it.
The science of logistics concerns the integration of strategic, operational, and tactical sustainment efforts within the theater, while scheduling the mobilization and deployment of units, personne, equipment, and supplies in support of the employment concept of a geographic combatant commander.