USAWC Press Book Review: War of Supply

Eisenhower, as the US Army theater commander, endorsed a decision to maintain the combat forces but to reduce the support units by half of their trucks. [...] For the invasion of Sicily, Larkin established the Island Base Section in September 1943, and to support the subsequent operations in Italy, he established the Peninsular Base Section two months later. [...] An important outcome of the Mediterranean campaigns was the increased appreciation by Allied planners and commanders of the numerous other types of units needed to support a combat division. [...] With the Russia-Ukraine War providing new evidence of this significance and the US military’s return to emphasizing large-scale combat operations, insights from the Allied campaigns in the Mediterranean still hold value. [...] The views and opinions expressed in Parameters book reviews are those of the reviewers and are not necessarily those of the Department of the Army, the US Army War College, or any other agency of the US government.