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• The government admitted this week that one of the
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lessons learned in the Iraq war was that it needed to track supplies more accurately during any future military campaigns.
Defence minister Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons on Monday f 7 July), that the "equipment and logistics support performed well overall, although improvements are required in respect of asset tracking and distribution within theatre".
Hoon's comments came within the "first reflections report" on how the war had been handled by the military.
The armed forces use a mix of military and civilian support in order to get supplies to the front lines, but Noon admitted that complete tracking of stores was only fully effective as far as Kuwait. A Ministry of Defence spokesman says that future improvements to tracking supplies could be provided either within the forces or by an outside contractor. "We will simply be looking for the best value," he adds.
During the war the forces improved their tracking temporarily by using the American TAV (total asset visibility) system, but Noon's report spoke of the need to examine closely what system best suits British troops. Among the specific blockages experienced by British forces during the war, the report notes "early problems with contracts for Pedaloes".