Logistics directly acts on other departments within the group, plays a vital role in the normal operation of other departments, and plays an indirect role in realizing the group's goals and tasks. In short, the logistics department provides material services for the smooth realization of the functions of other departments.

In the ranks of the China People's Liberation Army, the Logistics Department is the logistics department of units at or above the division level, and it is the institution in charge of the logistics work of the troops. At present, there are two main types of military logistics support: "command and support integration" and "command and support separation". The former refers to the integration of logistics leading organs and logistics forces, while the latter refers to the separation of logistics leading organs and logistics forces.

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Social background of logistics:

Lieutenant Colonel Thorpe (G.C.) of the United States Marine Corps wrote the book Theoretical Logistics-the Science of War Preparation in 19 17, arguing that logistics, strategy and tactics together constitute three branches of war science.

1882, a.t. Mahan, an American naval historian, interpreted the word "logistics" as providing security for the armed forces through national economic mobilization.

The preparation and implementation of modern war must have corresponding logistics support (including the mobilization of all resources by the state), which restricts the realization of strategic and tactical objectives and is related to the advance, retreat and victory of the war; The progress of science and technology and social production has caused changes in the means, scale and material demand and consumption of war.

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