Archibald Wavell, considered one of the finest of Britain’s generals, stressed the importance of such planning in a lecture on generalship in 1939. He said that strategy and tactics could be apprehended in a very short time by any reasonable human intelligence. But it was the principles and practice of military movement and administration – the ‘logistics’ of war – that was of prime importance. He went on: ‘I should like you always to bear in mind when you study military history or military events the importance of this administrative factor, because it is where most critics and many generals go wrong.’

— Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton (Page 190)