defense installations
Protective military structures
Defense installations are military facilities—bases, forts, missile sites, radar stations, and similar structures used for national security purposes.
The term appears frequently in policy discussions and news coverage of military matters: The treaty limits defense installations within fifty miles of the border.
Also spelled defence installations in British English.
- airbaseMilitary aviation facility
- radar stationFacility detecting distant objects
- war roomStrategic planning headquarters
- missile siloUnderground warhead housing
- early warning systemAdvance threat detection apparatus
naval base · pillbox · bunker · blast door · training camp · listening post · army barracks · forward operating base · guard tower · watchtower · castle · moat · perimeter fence · command center · trench · blockhouse · ammunition depot · checkpoint
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- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- battlefieldsGettysburg, Waterloo, front lines, Antietam, frontline
defense installationsdemilitarized zones
Areas banning armed forces
commercial buildings · residential areas · public spaces · soft targets · neutral territory
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