Aim and Scope

“Military Logistics Systems” / “Systemy Logistyczne Wojsk” (SLW) is a peer-reviewed, biannual, open-access scholarly journal devoted to logistics systems and supply chains in military, crisis-management and economic contexts.

The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, case studies and other article types specified in the author guidelines, provided that they make a clear contribution to knowledge on logistics systems, processes, resources, readiness, resilience or logistics management.

The scope of SLW is organised around three main areas:

1. Logistics in the Armed Forces, including military sustainment, logistics in missions and operations, host-nation support, interoperability, readiness, maintenance, acquisition and life-cycle management.
2. Logistics in crisis situations of the state, including logistics in emergency states, disasters, technical failures, hybrid threats, humanitarian operations and capability recovery.
3. Logistics in the economy, including supply, production, distribution, warehousing, transport, waste logistics, service logistics, urban logistics, critical infrastructure and supply chain management.

The journal particularly welcomes cross-cutting research on logistics resilience and business continuity, contested and multi-domain logistics, logistics digitalisation, cyber-resilience of logistics systems, space-enabled logistics, supply chain security, modelling, simulation, optimisation, artificial intelligence, autonomy, unmanned systems, energy logistics, sustainability and distributed manufacturing.

Submissions in security studies, history, political science and administration, cyber studies or space studies are considered only when they provide a clear and demonstrable logistics contribution, for example to sustainment, transport, supply, maintenance, readiness, infrastructure, data, logistics information systems, satellite-enabled services, risk, resilience or supply chain governance.

Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or do not meet minimum scholarly, language, ethical or editorial standards may be rejected during the initial editorial screening.