Naval War College Review Volume 71 Article 6 Number 4 Autumn 2018 The Great White Fleet Sails Today? Twenty-First- Century Logistics Lessons from the 1907–1909 Voyage of the Great White Fleet Christopher McMahon Follow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review Recommended Citation McMahon, Christopher (2018) "The Great White Fleet Sails Today? Twenty-First-Century Logistics Lessons from the 1907–1909 Voyage of the Great White Fleet," Naval War College Review: Vol. 71 : No. 4 , Article 6. Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol71/iss4/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Naval War College Review by an authorized editor of U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. McMahon: The Great White Fleet Sails Today? Twenty-First-Century Logistics THE GREAT WHITE FLEET SAILS TODAY? Twenty-First-Century Logistics Lessons from the 1907–1909 Voyage of the Great White Fleet Christopher McMahon We need above all things, a proportionate Navy, one that is perfect in every essential particular, not simply the ships that are necessary for fighting, but the ships that are necessary to sustain the ships that do the fighting, to carry coal [fuel] and supplies . and without these ships, the Navy would be as helpless in case of war as we would be without the battleships or the fighting ships of the Navy. SENATOR FRANCIS G� NEWLANDS