Moving mountains

Business Week and others have called the Gulf War the largest military logistics operation in history. In record-breaking time the United States and its allies deployed troops and supplies halfway around the world against enormous constraints. From Desert Shield to Desert Storm to Desert Farewell, the numbers were staggering: 122 million meals served, 1.3 billion gallons of fuel pumped, 52 million miles driven, 12,575 aircraft processed, 32,000 tons of mail delivered. General Norman Schwarzkopf hailed it as "an absolutely gigantic accomplishment." In Moving Mountains, the man responsible for…