Optimizing Resources of United States Navy for Humanitarian Operations

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On- and offshore prepositioning and delivery mechanism for humanitarian relief operations

“…The issue of humanitarian assistance has also found mention (e.g. Beach, 2010;Apte et al, 2012). According to Martinez (2008) When it comes to the humanitarian logistics literature, Akkihal's (2006) discussion of the facility location problem explicitly acknowledged that sea-basing is not uncommon in the realm of military logistics preparedness.…”