Destroying oil infrastructure in a wartime economy degrades military mobility, cuts sustained firepower, and breaks logistical supply chains. Operational capacity drops within days to weeks. Units using liquid fuel for movement—armored vehicles, aircraft, naval vessels—lose range and endurance. Systems needing petroleum for sustained firepower, like artillery, drones, and generators, suffer similarly. Logistical functions reliant on petroleum for transport, such as fuel convoys, rail, and port operations, stall. This causes cascading failures in front-line resupply. Historical cases, including WWII Allied bombing of German refineries and Gulf War targeting of Iraqi oil facilities, show that disrupting refining, storage, or distribution nodes—even partially—produces measurable degradation in military effectiveness within 14–30 days. The threshold for typical military effect is the loss of more than 30% of critical petroleum infrastructure capacity.
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