Professor Elam

Logistics is is the study of how to move people and equipment in the most efficient manner possible. No doubt  there are better definitions but that is the essence of it. FEd Ex and UPS study such things reaching conclusions like, it is much more efficient to make right turns, left turns waste time waiting for your light to turn green.

We have logistics on display in the disaster that is Haiti. There is only one runway so the US AF is setting up its own tower so to speak to direct traffic. As one report said this is like a trip to the moon, one has to bring everything, fuel, water, tents, generators. No one else does this quite like the US Navy or the USAF. It is on display on all the cable channels.

By the way if you have never seen a nuclear aircraft carrier up close and personal it is difficult to describe, viewed from the waterline and yes I have been there, it is hard to believe it floats.

After this is over, let's hope someone has the temerity to ask the President of Haiti how anyone could mismanage an economy on a fertile island quite so badly….