Logisticians despise strategists and tacticians. Sometimes a logistician becomes a general. This is why logisticians who become generals always have ulcers and cannot eat their ambrosia. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. Identifying those principles that have priority in a specific situation is essential to establishing effective support.
War is replete with mistakes because it is full of improvisations.
In war we are always doing something for the first time. It would be a miracle if what we improvised under the stress of war should be perfect. L ean forward. It's always better to fall on your face than on your backside. Since the majority of junior officers and enlisted men in the logistics services are specialized in a technical field, sound technical training is their fundamental preparation for war.