Managerial Elements Specific to Military Logistics

Abstract

Management, both as a science and as a reality, exists and applies to all hierarchical levels and segments of activity, including logistics. Military logistics ensures and maintains the necessary conditions for the large units and units to be able to fulfill their missions and objectives in the best possible conditions, both in peacetime and in other situations, crisis, war, etc. Its functional areas are specific to supply, maintenance, movement and transport, medical and veterinary support, and service provision. In this context, it can be said that the management of military logistics represents the science and the art of using the material resources, as well as the management of the human resources specialized in the logistic field, in order to achieve the objectives of the organization