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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 competition over supply lines now constitutes a conflict phase before any declared war begins. The piece examines how joint military forces integrate to deny adversaries strategic supplies, treating logistics interdiction as a decisive early battlefield. It frames peacetime positioning, blockades and infrastructure targeting as opening moves of future great-power conflict.