military garrisons
Permanent army posts
Military garrisons are troops stationed at a particular location, or the fortified place where they're stationed.
A garrison secures territory, defends strategic points, or maintains order: The military garrison protected the colonial outpost.
To garrison a place is to station troops there.
Garrison duty—routine service at a fixed post—contrasts with active combat deployment.
- fortsDefensive military installations
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- army basesMilitary compounds housing soldiers
- quartermastersMilitary supply managers
- sentriesSoldiers assigned to guard
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Transportable operational groups
expeditionary forces · cavalry · strike forces · armored divisions · raiding parties
military garrisonsdemilitarized zones
Areas banning armed forces
non-combatants · peace camps · commercial districts · residential neighborhoods · neutral ground
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