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Equation 16 · Part 1 · The Logistics Tail: Sustainment as the Binding Constraint on Organised Force

Symbol T

T(r)T(r)
TT

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T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

The analytical payoff is that culmination is not a surprise that occurs at the front. It is a property of the whole system, computable before departure, and located where the transfer capacity is — not where the fighting is. The judgement that remains is about C , which varies enormously with intensity, and about the reliability of T(r) under attrition and weather. Those are uncertainty ranges, not unknowables.

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