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Logistics is part of the dialectic of material and political means implemented by successive governments during the first campaigns of the Revolution (1792-1794). Support systems evolved between centralized and delocalized action. If at the beginning of the conflict a central organization emerged, entrusted with any purchases, commissions gradually replaced the action of the Ministry of War, until its disappearance on April 20, 1794. Logistics made it possible to highlight the transmission of purchases decision-making, shifts from executive to legislative power. Thus, faced with shortages, the armies draw on their own resources, but can, gradually, count on better organized and more diffuse support between the various players in the political game.