as the interior, networked lines of communication and logistics that had decided and delivered victory for history's great empires. “Methods change,” Jomini observed, “but principles are unchanging.” The skeins of links running inside national war machines were as essential for security as any 74 The spi

de Comtois, and Brian Slack, The Geography of Transport Systems Routledge 2006 p. 10-15 54 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018286 ability to strike out - a lesson Jomini and Napeoleon expensively re-learned at the end of their gasping supply lines in Russia in the winter of 1807.75 In our own day, jet-meshed networks,