This review article engages with a rich field of scholarship on logistics that has gathered momentum over the past decade, focusing on two new publications by Laleh Khalili and Martín Arboleda. It contextualizes how and why logistics is bound up with the militarization of contemporary political and social life. I argue that the later 20th century rise of logistics can be better understood as both a response to and symptom of capitalist crisis and I situate this scholarship on war and logistics in relationship to Giovanni Arrighi’s account of crisis and ‘unravelling hegemony’. I also show how logistics provides essential critical and visual resources that contribute to efforts to map global capitalism and to debates on totality and class composition in contemporary critical theory. Finally, contemporary events such as the ongoing Coronavirus crisis and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter are considered in light of this analysis with reference to the centrality of logistics to racial capitalism.

这篇评论文章涉及物流领域的丰富学术领域，该领域在过去十年中发展势头迅猛，重点介绍了Laleh Khalili和MartínArboleda的两本新出版物。它具体说明了物流如何以及为什么与当代政治和社会生活的军事化联系在一起。我认为，可以更好地理解20世纪后期的物流业崛起，既是对资本主义危机的回应，又是对资本主义危机的征兆。我将有关战争和物流业的奖学金与乔凡尼·阿里吉（Giovanni Arrighi）对危机和“解开霸权”的论述联系起来。我还将展示物流如何提供必要的批判性和视觉资源，这些资源有助于绘制全球资本主义的图谱，并有助于当代批判理论中有关总体和阶级构成的辩论。最后，