How did Alfred Thayer Mahan influence the use of the term logistics in the U.S. Navy?

In the late 1880s, the American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan introduced the term logistics into U.S. naval usage. By incorporating the concept into his influential theory of sea power, Mahan helped elevate the importance of logistical considerations within naval strategy.1

While the term had been defined earlier by French military thinker Antoine-Henri Jomini as the practical art of moving armies, its usage had largely faded from military vocabulary by the late 19th century. Mahan’s adoption of the term helped revive it, and in the years leading up to World War I, the U.S. Navy’s focus on the economic foundations of naval expansion further broadened the definition of logistics to include industrial mobilization and war economics.1