supply routes
Paths for provisions
Supply routes are the paths—roads, railways, sea lanes, or air corridors—through which military forces or civilian populations receive essential materials like food, fuel, ammunition, and equipment.
Cutting enemy supply routes has been a central strategy in warfare since antiquity: The partisans disrupted German supply routes throughout the occupation.
The term extends to any critical channel of resources: The pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global supply routes.
- airplanePowered flying machine
- Berlin AirliftAllied supply mission, 1948
- bargeFlat freight vessel
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
mountain passes · piracy · river systems · air drop · cargo ship · troop movements · convoy · truck · border crossings · lifeline · artery · silk road · chokepoints · sea lanes · pipeline · caravan · freight train · security threats
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- trade routessilk road, Silk Road, cargo routes, merchant routes, commercial routes
- travel routesSilk Road, Pacific Coast Highway, trade routes, scenic routes, scenic byways
- naval warfarenaval battles, naval battle, battleship, destroyer, sea battles
- China WWIIFlying Tigers, Chongqing, Burma Road, Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomintang
- military logisticsresupply, convoy, supplies, materiel, requisitions
supply routesfront lines
Active battle area
combat zone · frontline · combat zones · theater of war · forward positions
supply routesblockade
Sealing off a place
siege lines · choke points · supply disruption · enemy lines · defensive perimeter