A defensive fighting position is a type of earthwork constructed in a military context, generally large enough to accommodate anything from one soldier...

defensive fighting position intended to give military units the ability to repel attacks from any direction. The positioning of the outer defensive fighting...

trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Palisade derives from pale, from...

In military tactics, a strongpoint is a key point in a defensive fighting position which anchors the overall defense line. This may include redoubts,...

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple...

defensive fighting position from minimal personal cover, and he received multiple wounds. His engagement and destruction of the first enemy position and...

the qasaba. It is in ruins now, but was once a dwelling and is strongly defensive." One account says about a traditional village in Al-Bahah, Saudi Arabia:...

station. They were named, likely by the press, for the foxhole, a defensive fighting position used during the war. There are also accounts of prisoners of...

of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. Stockade is derived from the French word estocade. The French word...

which defenders could target attackers who had reached the base of the defensive wall. A smaller related structure that only protects key points of a fortification...

(entrenchments) Over head protection Revetting Shell scrapes Defensive fighting position Use and improvement of terrain Use of the High ground Protection...

soldier can take shelter from weapons fire. While similar to a defensive fighting position in that the purpose is to shield a single soldier from artillery...

A fortified tower (also defensive tower or castle tower or, in context, just tower) is one of the defensive structures used in fortifications, such as...

This makes it easier to hit enemy soldiers behind a wall, in a defensive fighting position, or in a confined space or room. It is used on many guns, from...

"little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core. In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part...

foundations of) the fortification's walls. Coupure Covertway Defensive fighting position; for example, a rifle pit, sangar or fox hole. Demi-lune Ditch:...

(historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, although...

time this changed, and firebases evolved into small forts with all the defensive measures those required. Many fire support bases evolved into more permanent...

September 30, 2010. A First Balkan War Bulgarian foxhole A defensive fighting position made with sandbags Sandbagged aircraft revetment World War II...

defensive fighting position in warfare Slit Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England Arrowslit or loophole, a defensive...

massive army of 16,000 British and Colonial troops by fronting their defensive positions with an extremely dense abatis. The British found the defences almost...

architecture, a rampart is a length of embankment or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site. It...

castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes. In the Middle Ages, barbicans were typically situated outside...

the free dictionary. Foxhole may refer to: Foxhole, a type of defensive fighting position Foxholes, Hertford, an eastern suburb of Hertford Foxholes, North...

Here it was used by them to prevent enemy siege engines from weakening defensive walls. Hillforts in Britain started to incorporate glacis around 350 BC...

A curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town. Evidence for curtain walls or a series of walls...

formula in mathematical optimization Decimal floating point Defensive fighting position, a military term Department of Finance and Personnel VESA Digital...

best-known examples appear on medieval buildings, where battlements, though defensive, could be attractively formed, thus having a secondary decorative purpose...

the inner enceinte. Surrounding fortresses or towns with a series of defensive walls where the outer walls are lower than the inner walls is something...

infantry forces are generally much less effective against fortified defensive positions than mechanized units. The author of the Czechoslovak invention is...