Supply Chain Resilience – An Empirical Exploration of Barriers and Enablers in Military Settings
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2025

In the post-Cold War period, many Western countries reduced their military budgets, shifting their focus from territorial defence to expeditionary operations. For these armed forces, the transformation brought with it an increasing dependence on lean commercial supply chains, vulnerable to disruption. Today, the geopolitical landscape is changing; the established rules-based international order is no longer secure. Western nations are uniformly increasing their military expenditure to refocus on