Logistics of the Internet: How WWII's Supply Chains Inspired Digital Networks (Wired for Victory: How WWII Sparked the Digital Future) - Softcover

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Before the Internet moved information, supply chains moved armies.
In Logistics of the Internet, S.J. Bletchley explores how the monumental coordination of WWII supply networks—spanning continents, technologies, and millions of lives—pioneered the very ideas that now drive our digital world.
From the rapid deployment of goods to packet-switched thinking, the logic behind battlefield logistics laid the foundation for modern networking, redundancy, and intelligent routing.
This provocative history draws a straight line from the convoy systems and material tracking of WWII to the architecture of the internet—revealing how physical movement of goods inspired the flow of digital data.
For technologists, historians, logistics experts, and network architects, this is the untold origin story of digital infrastructure built on wartime necessity.

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