Growing up I have always been an avid fan of the film and television industry. What makes this industry so great is their ability to take a plot, be it fact or fiction, and compress it into a two-hour movie or a 45-minute television episode. But the problem with a two-hour movie or a 45-minute episode is that a lot of detail gets left out. This leaves it up to the director and producer to decide which details are most important and will capture the audience's attention in the long term. Unfortunately for logistics people, their story is one of the easiest parts to leave out. Not many people want to watch officers sit around a table and discuss the pros and cons of providing food for their troops. What is a war story if the battles never actually happen? People prefer to see actual battles with blood spilled or the love story and drama that accompanies the plot. But after reading this book it left me thinking about how these battles are actually delivered. Rarely in shows or movies do I see kings or officials dwell on the issue of how their troops will be supplied. Usually the focus is on the actual battle. For example, I'm currently watching Game of Thrones, an HBO special. This series is full of war, love, war, drama and then more war. The closest thing to logistical problems I saw in this television series was maneuvering troops from one position to another to flank the other side or rallying more troops. Until reading this book I would never have fully considered the real problems and issues related to supplying the thousands of men who fought in the battles as well as the horses that... middle of paper... Even with the increasing use of new technologies in logistics, it is not always necessary to improve its overall speed and effectiveness in warfare. I have always believed that as technology increased and improved it would be much easier and faster to supply our troops. I believed that railroads and motor vehicles would be faster and more efficient than horse-drawn transportation. Armies should be able to go further than before and faster. While the book stated that most armies could only go about 15 miles per hour, motor vehicles and trains could easily go that fast in an hour. But it wasn't like that. In Supplying War it was shown that this new "improved technology" actually brought other problems where more things could go wrong. More technology, such as motor vehicles and railways, meant there were more parts, such as gas and spare parts.