It is characterised by a keep, massive for the time, whose use was essentially defensive.

General Jovic said such "military engineering" is essentially defensive.

While the support being sought by the United States is essentially defensive, it is still politically sensitive.

It had an essentially defensive function that included responsibility for the early warning system.

The early Roman army was tactically limited and its stance during this period was essentially defensive.

An essentially defensive objective had replaced the grand aggressions of an earlier era.

However, he favoured continued resistance against the Germans and had always been an opponent of France's essentially defensive military strategy.

But they held power for only four years, and their guerrilla war since then has been essentially defensive.

The fact that he had chosen aikido as his first discipline of study was telling, because its governing theories were essentially defensive.

What started as an essentially defensive effort soon became a full-blown campaign of conquest.