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- In military tactics, a strongpoint is a key point in a defensive fighting position which anchors the overall defense line. This may include redoubts,...
- dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The term originated in siege warfare. In siege warfare, the word sortie...
- cleared the heavily fortified strongpoint at the casino at Riva Bella, with the aid of one of the DD tanks. The 'Morris' strongpoint near Colleville-sur-Orne...
- tactic in which a defending force creates multiple mutually supporting strongpoints ("hedgehogs") in a defence in depth, designed to sap the strength and...
- Smaller single-purpose flak towers were built at key outlying German strongpoints, such as at Angers in France, and Heligoland in Germany. The towers were...
- reconnaissance-in-force, or sorties from a fortress, castle, or other strongpoint. Hit-and-run tactics were also used by the lightly-armed horse archers...
- provided a cheap stopgap means of knocking out enemy vehicles, clearing out strongpoints, and har****ing or killing enemy personnel until more effective weapons...
- with Mauritania. Prior to Algerian independence, the area served as a strongpoint of several tribes of the nomadic Reguibat confederation. During the Zayyanid...
- multi-pronged counterinsurgency campaign; a network of nets, blockhouses, strongpoints and barbed wire fences was constructed, virtually partitioning the occupied...
- ten craft on the right were to land on Tare Green beach, opposite the strongpoint at Les Dunes de Varreville. The ten craft on the left were intended for...