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- 1The War Before the War: Strategic Supply Denial▼The War Before the War: Joint Force Integration in Strategic Supply Denial
Small Wars Journal has published an analysis arguing that conflict increasingly begins before any shots are fired, through joint-force efforts to deny adversaries strategic supplies such as fuel, munitions and critical materials. The piece examines how military services would integrate logistics interdiction into deterrence and early operations, framing supply denial as a defining feature of modern great-power competition.