The successes of American military power in recent years relied greatly on the effective movement of massive quantities of materiel. Trucks, trains, and ships carrying intermodal containers delivered most of this materiel. The commercial transportation industry developed this intermodal support capability over time beginning with the introduction of the railroads in the early nineteenth century. The military quickly adapted the various ongoing developments for martial purposes. Since those earliest developments ...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the risks the United States military has faced and is now facing due to the post-World War II degradation of U.S. domestic railroad capabilities. After 1946, the commercial railroads of the United States witnessed numerous mergers, bankruptcies, and abandonment of routes that contributed to the shrinking of the domestic rail network and associated service. This situation was compounded by competition from other ...
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