They also understand that during the next 20 years there will be no new deployment, offensive or defensive, that changes this reality.

The fortress concept was adopted; the planners decided on a single defensive deployment of troops on the border, which went against the troop deployments advocated by earlier plans.

Green undergrowth provides the Unita soldiers camouflage for artillery and vehicles, while trees and brush provide cover for defensive deployment.

A phased defensive deployment would also ruin the few remaining chances of forming some measure of domestic consensus in support of the President's approach to strategic affairs.

Go to defensive deployment out here in the passageway.

Naria's incredible defensive deployment told me as much about Naria as it did about the current state of military preparedness in the Imperium.

The 15th was among the very last units to be moved into place as Southern Cross command made some final arrangements in defensive deployment.

"It's largely a defensive deployment in case Saddam comes south after an air strike occurs," said a senior Defense Department official.

Having been on defensive deployment since 27 November, in a wait-and-watch posture, she commenced war patrolling immediately upon receiving word of the attacks.

That would have given Theodosia the opportunity to repeat McQueen's defensive deployments against him.