supply route
Material delivery corridor
A supply route is a path or channel used to transport essential materials—food, weapons, fuel, medical supplies—to those who need them, typically military forces or populations under siege.
The term appears most often in wartime contexts: Enemy bombers targeted the supply routes.
Cutting off supply routes is a classic strategy for weakening an opponent without direct confrontation.
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- military convoyArmed forces transport formation
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
- corridorEnclosed connecting walkway
- lifelineEssential connection to safety
caravan · shipment · cargo · ambush · enemy lines · highway · artery · provisions · munitions · reinforcements · checkpoint · forward operating base · depot · railroad · airlift · smuggling · pipeline · transport
- routesroad, path, highway, freeway, trail
- sea routesshipping lane, Northwest Passage, Northeast Passage, sea lanes, seaways
- war mapsbattle map, military maps, tactical map, campaign map, military operations
- chokepointschoke point, bottleneck, pinch point, narrows, strait
- steamship routesAtlantic crossing
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
supply routefront line
Combat's forward edge
front lines · combat zone · forward positions · firing line · no man's land
supply routeblockade
Sealing off a place
encirclement · choke point · cutoff point · cordon · no-go zone
supply, route, supplies, supplied, supplying, supplier, suppliers, resupply, routes