The Rucksack War. U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983
Edgar F. Raines Jr. - The Rucksack War. U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983
Center of Military History United States Army | 2010 | ISBN: 0160841828 | English | 686 pages | PDF | 8.3 MB
Contingency Operations Series
Center of Military History United States Army | 2010 | ISBN: 0160841828 | English | 686 pages | PDF | 8.3 MB
Contingency Operations Series
Edgar F. Raines Jr.’s The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983 provides an account of how Armylogistics affected ground operations during the Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance. Noteworthy is the emphasis on the role of individuals and the decisions they made based on the necessarily incomplete and sometimes misleading information available at the time during an unexpected and short-notice contingency operation. The narrative ranges from the meetings of the National Security Council, where the president grappled with the question of whether to send in troops, to the jungle environs of Grenada, where a sergeant in combat coped successfully with a Cuban ambush even though he and his men were handicapped by a lack of hand grenades. The considerations that influenced these decisions and others like them are discussed at all three levels of war—strategic, operational, and tactical…