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Suggested Logistics Reading List


1. Logistics in the National Defense
by Rear Admiral Eccles

2. The Big ā€œLā€: American Logistics in World War II
by Dr. Alan Gropman

3. The Thousand-Mile War
by Brian Garfield

4. Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War
by Lt. General William G. Pagonis, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

5. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
by Martin Van Creveld

6. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by E. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

7. Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your Software Investment
by Thomas M. Pigoski

8. Life-Cycle Cost and Economic Analysis
by Fabrycky, Wolter J., Benjamin S. Blanchard

9. Lean Six Sigma
by Michael George

10. Lean Thinking
by James P. Womack

11. The Berlin Airlift
by Ann and John Tusa

12. Flying the Hump, Memories of an Air War
by Otha C. Spencer

13. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
by Donald W. Engels

14. Naval Logistics
by George C. Dryer

15. U.S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War
by Duncan S. Ballentine


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