NATO–EU Strategic Priority: Strategic Logistics, Sustainment & Military Mobility

The ability to sustain, move, and resupply military forces during crises has returned to the forefront of Euro-Atlantic strategic planning. The large-scale war in Ukraine has underscored the necessity of having robust, resilient, and integrated logistics systems capable of ensuring effective power projection, operational continuity, and timely reinforcement in high-intensity scenarios.

At the same time, the growing vulnerability of Europe’s critical infrastructure, the saturation of both civilian and military industrial capacities, and deep dependencies on non-allied suppliers have revealed the structural nature of logistical challenges.

This analysis answers: Why has the ability to sustain, move and resupply forces returned to the forefront of Euro-Atlantic strategic planning after the war in Ukraine? How do robust, resilient and integrated logistics systems ensure power projection, operational continuity and timely reinforcement in high-intensity scenarios? How do critical-infrastructure vulnerability, saturation of industrial capacities and dependence on non-allied suppliers reveal the structural nature of logistical challenges? What NATO-EU priorities for strategic logistics, sustainment and military mobility address these constraints?