forward bases
Frontline operational hubs
Forward bases are military installations positioned closer to potential conflict zones than main bases, allowing faster deployment and resupply of forces.
The term extends to any strategic outpost that supports operations in a distant area: The company established forward bases in three Asian markets.
In gaming, a forward base is a secondary position built nearer enemy territory to stage attacks.
- outpostRemote military station
- military outpostRemote armed forces station
- stagingPreparing for presentation
- staging areaIntermediate gathering location
- militaryArmed forces collectively
deployment · troop deployment · logistics · supply line · airfield · landing zone · supply · operations · air support · strategic · camp · perimeter · advance · advance party · reconnaissance · troops · bunker · frontline
- Military Sitesforts, fortresses, naval stations, bunkers, army posts
- military defenseair defense, missile defense, coastal defense, homeland defense, radar station
- military installationsforts, outposts, army posts, fort, fortress
- military logisticssupply depots, supply lines, supply depot, resupply, supply ships
- military strategymilitary doctrine, combat tactics, tactical maneuvers, war planning, defense policy
- outpostsoutposts, outpost, frontier post, border post, border posts
forward basesrear echelon
Non-combat support zone
home base · headquarters · garrison · cantonment · staging areas
forward basesdefensive positions
Places fortified against assault
fortress defense · demilitarized zones · retrenchment · disengagement · neutral territory
forward, forwards, forwardness, base, bases, based, basing, baseless, baseline