Growing up, I was always an avid fan of the film and television industry. What makes this industry so great is its ability to take a plot, whether real or fictional, and compress it into a two-hour movie or a 45-minute TV episode. But the problem with a two-hour movie or a 45-minute episode is that a lot of details get left out. This leaves it to the director and producer to decide which details are most important and will capture the audience's attention in the long run. Unfortunately for logisticians, their story is one of the easiest parts to leave out. Few people want to see officers sitting around a table and discussing the pros and cons of how they are going to get food to their troops. What is a war story if the battles never happen? People prefer to see the real battles with bloodshed or the love story and drama that comes with the plot. But after reading this book, it got me thinking about how these battles are actually fueled. It is very rare, in shows or films, to see kings or officers dwelling on the problem of supplying their troops. The focus is usually on the battle itself. For example, I'm currently watching The Game of Thrones, an HBO special. This series is filled with war, love, war, drama and more war. The closest thing this TV series has to logistical issues is maneuvering troops from one position to another to get around the other side or marshaling more troops. Before reading this book, I would never have fully thought about the real problems and issues involved in supplying the thousands of men who fought in the battles as well as the horses that......mid paper...... Even with the increasing use of new technologies in logistics, it does not always necessarily improve its overall speed and efficiency in war. I always believed that with the increase and improvement of technology, it would be much easier and faster to supply our troops. I thought that railroads and motorized vehicles would be faster and more efficient than horse transportation. Armies should be able to go further and faster than before. While the book indicated that most armies could only travel about 15 miles per hour, motorized vehicles and trains could easily go that fast in an hour. But that wasn't the case. In Supplying War, it was shown that this new "improved technology" actually led to other problems where more things could go wrong. More technology, like motor vehicles and railroads, meant there were more parts, like gasoline and replacement parts..