Back in late August I had to endure the experience of giving praise to Elon Musk, something I’m loathe to do given the fact that the man is a snot-bag adolescent begging for a go with a fully automatic bitch-slap machine.  I’d even volunteer to stand there and keep plugging loonies into the damned thing to keep it going, like I do at the car wash, only with way more fun attached to the experience.

At that time I was giving Elon props for achieving something that absolutely blew me away:  the vertical recovery of the Falcon 9 booster rocket used to propel a demo cargo into near-Earth orbit.  Booster rockets previously would splash down in oceans to be recovered, but they weren’t reusable, and the Falcon 9 is.  That fact alone cut the expense of firing things into space dramatically, making all manner of applications possible.

Including military applications.

I’m not talking about Star Wars here, although I’m sure that something along those lines is only a matter of time.  Weaponization of technology has been around for as long as humans figured out that It was possible to kill one another with things other than their bare hands, so none of that should come as a surprise.  In fact, much of the everyday technology we use in the most benign of daily applications likely had its start as a military application.

But today I’m not going to discuss war-craft or space-conducive fighting platforms.  Today’s topic has to do with something a little less glamorous yet probably more effective and important to any military effort anywhere.  

The idea of logistics and supply.