military logistics
Wartime supply chain
Military logistics is the planning, movement, and supply of armed forces—getting troops, equipment, fuel, food, ammunition, and medical supplies where they need to be.
The field encompasses transportation, warehousing, maintenance, and distribution across vast distances.
The invasion failed due to poor military logistics.
Logistics often determines military success more than tactics or strategy; armies that can't be fed and resupplied can't fight.
- supply depotsFacilities storing distributed provisions
- supply lineRoute for delivering supplies
- ammo dumpMilitary munitions storage facility
- airliftEmergency transport by plane
- materielArmed forces equipment
convoy · troop transport · quartermaster · rear echelon · warehousing · fuel depot · sealift · procurement · contingency planning · siege warfare · beachhead · command centers · rail transport · inventory control · war footing · deployment · field hospitals · replenishment
- Canadian MilitaryCanadian Armed Forces, Canadian Army, DND, service branches, special forces
- naval transporttroopships, troop transport, supply ships, cargo ships, merchant marine
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, selective service, mobilization orders, war footing
- wartime workwar industry, factory work, munitions, weapons manufacturing, aircraft production
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
military logisticscombat operations
Active military engagement
combat strategy · fire and maneuver · military intelligence · reconnaissance · military tactics