British operations in Afghanistan and up the Nile provide examples of supply failures beyond the Japanese campaigns. Long periods of peace, or smaller operations in which supplies have always arrived, can encourage commanders to assume that their support system will continue to work. A larger war exposes the weakness in that assumption. France offers an institutional comparison: its logistics organization is described as operating with an unusual degree of separation from the rest of the armed forces. That independence raises a question about how military organizations assign responsibility for supply.
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Why successful armies still neglect logistics
Peace and successful small operations can conceal weak supply arrangements; the French example examines how responsibility for logistics is organized.