"The logistical principles discussed in this study appear especially vital to today's military students, given the recent massive challenges to logisticians posed by operation in the Persian Gulf and possible future contingency operations." - Harold Nelson, BG, USA, Chief of Military History

Part I: Journeyman Logistician; 1. Joining Up; 2. Preparation in England; 3. War in Europe; 4. War in Korea Part II: Transition to High Command; 5. Teacher and Student; 6. Reorganization of Logistics, 1962; 7. Europe in the 1960s Part III: Senior Logistician; 8. Transition to Vietnam; 9. War in Vietnam; 10. Chief of Army Logistics Part IV: A Continuing Commitment; 11. Retirement; 12. Coalition Logistics; 13. A Point of View; 14. The Logistics Imperatives; Epilogue: Polishing the Mirror Prologue: Lonesome Boy's Blues