Strategic position

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(Mil.)

a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force.

See also: Position

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advantage cover covered Coverer develop Developable Gallipoli Herat Kabul listening post Megiddo perseverance			The strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context The Arab, who had gone down with his mount, was standing astride him, and seeing the Belgian's strategic position behind his fallen horse, lost no time in taking up a similar one behind his own. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context The prince jumped up so furiously that Lebedeff ran towards the door; having gained which strategic position, however, he stopped and looked back to see if he might hope for pardon. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context			Stratarithmetry Strategetic Strategetics strategian strategic strategic advantage strategic air transport strategic air transport operations strategic air warfare strategic airlift Strategic Arms Limitation Talks strategic buyout strategic concentration strategic concept strategic estimate strategic intelligence strategic level of war Strategic line strategic map strategic material (critical) strategic mining strategic mission strategic mobility strategic plan Strategic point Strategic position strategic psychological activities strategic reserve strategic sealift strategic sealift forces strategic sealift shipping strategic transport aircraft strategic vulnerability strategic warning strategic warning lead time strategic warning post-decision time strategic warning pre-decision time strategical strategically strategics strategist strategize Strategus strategy strategy determination Stratford Stratford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon strath Strathclyde Region strathspey			Strategic Planning Group for Private Psychiatric Services Strategic Planning Guidance Strategic Planning Initiative Strategic Planning Leadership Team Strategic Planning Methodology Strategic Planning Office Strategic Planning Process Strategic Planning Review Strategic Planning Society Strategic Planning Study Group Strategic Planning Task Force Strategic Planning Task Group Strategic Planning, Analysis and Realignment Office Strategic Plans & Resource Analysis Agency Strategic Platform for Intelligent Traffic Systems Strategic point Strategic Police Matters Unit Strategic Policy and International Labour Affairs Strategic Policy and Planning Branch Strategic Policy and Research Division Strategic Policy Framework Strategic Policy Planning and Analysis Strategic Policy Research Directorate Strategic Policy, Communications and Corporate Services Strategic position Strategic Posture Analysis Strategic Press Information Network Strategic Prevention Framework Strategic Priorities Grant Fund Strategic Problem Solving Strategic Process Improvement and Reengineering Strategic Procurement Unit Strategic Product Design Strategic Product Development Strategic Profits Inc Strategic Programme for Innovation and Technology Transfer Strategic Programs of Technology Strategic Project Launch Readiness Assessment Strategic Project Management Office Strategic Project Planning and Assessment Strategic Projection Force Strategic Projection of Airspace Requirements and Certification Strategic Propulsion Applications Program strategic psychological activities strategic psychological activities Strategic Psychological Intelligence Strategic Public Relations Strategic Public Relations Group Strategic Quality Management Board Strategic Quality Management System

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