Bullets, boots and bandages

9 thoughts on “Bullets, boots and bandages”

1. Gareth Jones February 23, 2012 at 3:07 pm

   Eh – is it just me or is there nothing on this page?
2. Ian February 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm

   Watched the first two,not bad so far: He keeps interviewing people I know personally!
3. Jim February 23, 2012 at 4:38 pm

   All I see are two comments above from Gareth Jones and Ian
4. Gareth Jones February 23, 2012 at 4:46 pm

   ah – Now I see it
5. elizzar February 23, 2012 at 4:58 pm

   it’s a youtube video link about a 3-part documentary series by saul david. is/was on bbc4, still on the iplayer at:
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019jsls/Bullets_Boots_and_Bandages_How_to_Really_Win_at_War_Staying_Alive/

   i can only suggest your browser is playing silly buggers or you have some flash-block type software?
6. x February 23, 2012 at 5:36 pm

   It was very good. But it gave the impression that the Army is self deploying entity. Saul David knows his stuff.
7. R L-C February 23, 2012 at 9:21 pm

   It was very enjoyable but IMO I thought it was to short and did not concentrate enough on modern logistics. Also no ships:(. But otherwise it was thought provoking. No mention of the civilian shipping industry and shipping routes.

   @TD No ISO’s, but a few pictures of pallets.
8. x February 24, 2012 at 11:11 am

   @ RLC

   Yes to me it gave a confused picture. I think to concentrate one programme solely on the modern RLC wouldn’t have made good TV for the majority of the BBC4 audience. I think they David could have gone to great lengths to explain and bring home to the viewer the sheer scale of what goes into Bastion. What summed the series up for me was that sequence of some loggies pushing a pallet of a Turkish civilian cargo plane that had flown through US secured airspace and the airspace of other countries which US power had opened. For all the modern kit the RLC has access to without diplomatic, economic, sea, and air power enabling the flow of cargo it can’t do nothing. It is more supermarket than warehouse.
9. Ian February 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm

   To be honest, I am glad it didn’t focus on modern logistics; it taught some very useful military history to the general audience, (although it misquoted General Sedgewick- his last words were “you couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist….”).

   modern military logistics deserve a programne of their own.