Logistics begins with industry and infrastructure

Logistics depends on industry producing supplies and infrastructure keeping equipment working and goods moving. Trucks, helicopters, and transport aircraft are the final links in that system. Buying them cannot compensate for missing productive capacity. Britain's 1930s rearmament could draw on car manufacturers and other industries to expand aircraft and armament production. It also inherited facilities from the Victorian period and the First World War, although some had already closed. The comparison questions how much equivalent reserve capacity remains in an economy that has outsourced manufacturing.