City Point, Virginia

You highlighted that Grant and General George G. Meade didn't just maneuver armies.

They orchestrated the physical arrangement of a joint supply system and established successive waterborne bases like City Point, Virginia.

So given today's contested logistics environments in theaters like the Indo-Pacific, how can senior leaders use these kinds of historical insights to build real physical resiliency into modern theater sustainment plans?

So the theory that they studied in the past, the principles that they were talking about, the original military theory that a lot of these folks studied, some of this is Jomini, some of it's Clausewitz, and then there's a whole range of other people, that's another discussion article-

He gave them the broad discretion about how to execute.

It was actually probably a harder problem for them just because he couldn't be everywhere.

Those supply ports mentioned before, places like City Point, eventually he gets there, but in the establishment of those, a lot of the times, he's nowhere near them.

So he's allowing his subordinates who are running those things, in some cases 'cause he had, you know, close relationships with the people, personal relationships with the people who were doing it, and he trusted them.

So this is a very famous photograph right here of, um, Ulysses S.

Grant during the Civil War, um, you know, sitting on his horse in front of the Confederate prisoners at City Point, Virginia.

Um, so, you know, imagine someone showed you this photograph.

You'd say, "Oh, okay.