Vernon's expedition was hampered by inefficient organisation, his rivalry with the commander of his land forces, and the logistical problems of mounting and maintaining a major trans-Atlantic expedition.

The major field operation of the fall was Hood's Franklin-Nashville Campaign, an invasion of Tennessee, which he undertook despite Beauregard's counsel that it made little operational or logistical sense.

The final major logistical step is to create an approximate schedule for completion.

His major positive contributions that won them Battle of the Marne were 1 ) his sustained calm under pressure and the calculated reasoning of an alumnus from Ecole Polytechnique 2 ) his ruthless dismissal of unsuccessful generals during the summer of 1914 ( three army commanders, ten corps commanders and thirty-eight divisional commanders, replacing them with combative men like Foch, Franchet d ' Esperey and-more junior at that stage-Petain and Nivelle ) and 3 ) his outstanding logistical handling of French infantry divisional movements and artillery ammunition supplies during and after the French retreat of August 1914.

Major examples of such waterworks include the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, which controlled the Min River in Sichuan and turned the former backwater region into a major Qin logistical base, and the Zhengguo Canal which irrigated large areas of land in the Guanzhong Plain, again increasing Qin's agricultural output.

A deception plan was hatched the convince the Germans that Fifth Army would launch the major attack, and a major logistical effort was required to move formations to their start lines.

This policy resulted in a very diverse aircraft inventory, which was to cause some major logistical problems until the inventory became more standardized.

By this time, the village and airstrip had become a major logistical base, supporting an entire U. S. division and airborne brigade and six ARVN battalions.

Subsequent congressional action banned further U. S. ground intervention outside the boundaries of South Vietnam, so the next major drive, Operation Lam Son 719, would have to be based on ARVN ground forces, U. S. air and artillery support, and U. S. advisory and logistical assistance.

During the Korean War, Hill AFB was assigned a major share of the Air Materiel Command's logistical effort to support the combat in Korea.

* October 11 – 12 – After Soviet intelligence detects Luftwaffe plans for a major air attack on October 12 targeting industrial complexes, airfields, railroad terminals, and logistical facilities in the Soviet Western Front area, Soviet Air Force aircraft mount a major preemptive strike against German airfields at Vitebsk, Smolensk, Orel, Orsha, Siversk, and elsewhere overnight on October 11 – 12, followed by another large raid on the morning of October 12.

Regardless of the constant American belief that its enemy was on the verge of collapse, PAVN maintained and expanded its logistical flow to combat units in the field and managed to launch major offensives in 1968 and 1972 and a counteroffensive in 1971.

One of the major logistical efforts of the war was " flying the Hump " over the Himalayas and the building of the Ledo Road from India to China as a replacement for the Burma Road.

The need to continuously resupply ( or recharge ) LW batteries was proving to be a major logistical challenge.

Another major change by the British was that use of air support both as an offensive weapon to replace artillery, and as a logistical tool to transport men and equipment.

For example, one point of the release stated that bushfire logistical support staging areas were being relocated from Bulls Head and Orroral Valley ( far outside urban Canberra ) to the North Curtin District Playing Fields ( far inside urban Canberra ) signalling both a major retreat by fire fighters and pointing to imminent danger to the city itself.

U. S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters land during the MAGTF demo at the MCAS Miramar Air ShowA major element of each year's show is the MAGTF Demo, a simulated assault by numerous Marine Corps units that demonstrates the air, ground and logistical elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.

The rapid advance through France had caused a considerable logistical strain, made worse by the lack of any major port other than the relatively distant Cherbourg in western France.

For major projects, Rexel can provide ad-hoc project logistical teams.

In this command he played a major logistical role in the repulse of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky in 1862.

Its major purpose was to test the logistical plans for an actual detonation.

Truk was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating " home " base for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The city started to play a regional role as a major urban centre on the fringes of the newly founded Frankish Duchy of Vasconia.

Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination.

Indeed, it is a major cultural and economic centre in southwestern Europe ( Iberian Peninsula ), 26th in the world ( after Moscow, before Dubai ) and a growing financial centre ( Diagonal Mar and Gran Via ).

Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Copenhagen is a major regional centre of culture, business, media, and science, as indicated by several international surveys and rankings ( see International rankings below ).

Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

Dublin Castle, which became the centre of Norman power in Ireland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England.

The city played no major role in the Industrial Revolution, but remained the centre of administration and a transport hub for most of the island.

The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.

Over the past 30 years, the population of the Docklands has more than doubled and the area has become both a major business centre and an increasingly desirable area to live.

Damascus was a major trading centre which abounded in wealth and was under normal circumstances a potential threat, but the rulers of Jerusalem had recently entered into a truce with the city, which they then forswore.

Fort William is a major tourist centre with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the north and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles.

Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked within the top fifty fashion capitals of the world ; furthermore, it is also a major national economic centre, being a tourist and industrial hub.

The German army celebrated the victory and demonstrated its might with a major military parade in the centre of Helsinki on 14 April 1918.

At that time Pergamon was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library ( Eumenes II ), second only to that in Alexandria,

Gosford is considered a major commercial centre of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and has been designated as an important growth centre under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

Tripolitania was a major exporter of olive oil ( produced there with the Centenaria farm system, protected by the Limes Tripolitanus ), as well as a centre for the gold and slaves conveyed to the coast by the Garamentes, while Cyrenaica remained an important source of wines, drugs, and horses.

The large number of coaching inns is, in turn, one reason why the City has so many pubs today ( another being that it was, and remains, a major centre for Christian pilgrimage ).