Posts tagged: logistics

Logistics Makes for Successful Emergency Response Team Deployment

My academic instruction and my own continued readings reinforce the premise that logistics will make or break an emergency response effort. My experience and what I hear from other deployed teams strengthens my belief in the absolute importance of logistical considerations. The debrief session from one of our emergency response teams’ deployment for the G8 [...]

Thursday August 19th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

Logistics will Make or Break Your Emergency Management Efforts

Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.  That is a military maxim that applies to endeavours emergency management.  It’s easy to concentrate on tactics: the front line, where the rubber meets the road.  It’s easy to forget that there is no rubber and no gas in the engine without the right logistics behind the [...]

Monday December 14th, 2009 in , , , , , , , | Comments Off