fortified positions
Hardened defensive locations
Fortified positions are locations strengthened against attack through defensive structures—trenches, bunkers, walls, or earthworks.
Military forces dig in and establish fortified positions to hold ground: The enemy had fortified positions along the ridge.
The phrase appears in both literal military contexts and figuratively for any entrenched stance: Both sides retreated to their fortified positions on the issue.
- outpostsRemote settlements or bases
- front linesActive battle area
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- bunkersFortified underground chambers
- strongholdsFortified places of strength
bomb shelters · safe houses · command posts · castles · keeps · bastions · siege towers · palisades · missile silos · citadels · barricades · underground bunkers · pillboxes · breastworks · trenches · redoubts · last stand · defensive lines
fortified positionsopen ground
open terrain · open field · no man's land · soft targets · flat terrain
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