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Article: Just-in-Time Imperialism: The Logistics Revolution and the Vietnam War
Title | Just-in-Time Imperialism: The Logistics Revolution and the Vietnam War |
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Authors | |
Keywords | decolonizing Pacific descolonizando el Pacífico Guerra de Vietnam imperio transpacífico infrastructural power logistics logística poder infraestructural transpacific empire Vietnam War |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Citation | Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021, v. 111, n. 5, p. 1329-1345 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this article, I argue that an important yet understudied consequence of the Vietnam War was an imperial turn toward modern logistics management. Drawing on archival documents collected from the National Archives and Records Administration, I track how the U.S. military and the U.S. Agency for International Development increasingly championed logistics management as a way of solving some of the “frictional” supply problems that threatened to paralyze the transnational war effort in South Vietnam. As part of this process, imperial agents cobbled together various infrastructures of supply and provision into a broader, more complex system for managing the transpacific flow of life-sustaining and life-eliminating commodities between the United States and South Vietnam. In this way, the Vietnam War served the U.S. empire-state as an experimental laboratory for repurposing logistics from a capitalist science of economic management into an imperial technology of rule and pacification. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/318882 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.510 |
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dc.contributor.author | Attewell, Wesley | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-11T12:24:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-11T12:24:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021, v. 111, n. 5, p. 1329-1345 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2469-4452 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/318882 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, I argue that an important yet understudied consequence of the Vietnam War was an imperial turn toward modern logistics management. Drawing on archival documents collected from the National Archives and Records Administration, I track how the U.S. military and the U.S. Agency for International Development increasingly championed logistics management as a way of solving some of the “frictional” supply problems that threatened to paralyze the transnational war effort in South Vietnam. As part of this process, imperial agents cobbled together various infrastructures of supply and provision into a broader, more complex system for managing the transpacific flow of life-sustaining and life-eliminating commodities between the United States and South Vietnam. In this way, the Vietnam War served the U.S. empire-state as an experimental laboratory for repurposing logistics from a capitalist science of economic management into an imperial technology of rule and pacification. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | - |
dc.subject | decolonizing Pacific | - |
dc.subject | descolonizando el Pacífico | - |
dc.subject | Guerra de Vietnam | - |
dc.subject | imperio transpacífico | - |
dc.subject | infrastructural power | - |
dc.subject | logistics | - |
dc.subject | logística | - |
dc.subject | poder infraestructural | - |
dc.subject | transpacific empire | - |
dc.subject | Vietnam War | - |
dc.title | Just-in-Time Imperialism: The Logistics Revolution and the Vietnam War | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/24694452.2020.1813540 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85096102765 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 111 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1329 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1345 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2469-4460 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000588185200001 | - |