Main supply route

{{Short description|Military or humanitarian logistics passageway}}[[File:IFOR Hungarian Army truck.JPEG|thumb|right|190px|A Hungarian Army truck on an MSR crossing the Sava river at Slavonski Brod, Croatia.]] [[File:Diamond Road 1993.jpg|thumb|right|190px|The infamous Route Diamond MSR, routing UNHCR aid into central Bosnia in the winter of 1993.]] A '''main supply route''' ('''MSR''')<ref>{{cite web|title=MOD Acronym List, p 258|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/227048/acronyms_and_abbreviations_dec08.pdf|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> is the route or routes designated within an area of operations upon which the bulk of traffic flows in support of military operations<ref>Australian Defence Force (1994). ADFP 101 Glossary. Staff Duties Series. Canberra: Defence Publishing Service.</ref> and humanitarian operations.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Underwood|first1=James R.|last2=Guth|first2=Peter L.|title=Military Geology in War and Peace|date=1998|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=9780813741130|pages=214–215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csilMhcixV8C&q=camp+redoubt+bosnia&pg=PA215|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Shrader|first1=Charles R.|title=The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia: A Military History, 1992-1994|date=2003|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=9781585442614|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_ceXJTw71MC&q=route+diamond+bosnia&pg=PA19|accessdate=5 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> MSR is a term that is also used in insurgency and irregular war scenarios.<ref>{{cite news|title=Syrian rebels defeat Isis to capture main supply route to Turkey|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-rebels-defeat-isis-to-take-control-of-main-supply-route-to-turkey-a6973181.html|accessdate=5 July 2017|work=The Independent|date=7 April 2016}}</ref>

Because of the intense and predictable flow of constrained military traffic MSRs can often become targets for opposing forces, as was the case with the Airport Road in Baghdad, a short but dangerous route.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Burns|first1=John F.|title=On Way to Baghdad Airport, Death Stalks Main Road|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/world/middleeast/on-way-to-baghdad-airport-death-stalks-main-road.html|accessdate=5 July 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 May 2005}}</ref>

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