strategic locations
Tactically important sites
Strategic locations are places whose position makes them valuable for military, commercial, or political purposes.
A port controlling a narrow strait, a mountain pass between nations, or an intersection of trade routes qualifies.
The value lies not in what's there but in what can be controlled from there: The canal was one of the most strategic locations in global shipping.
- bastionsFortified defensive positions
- watchtowersTall posts for surveillance
- rampartsProtective fortress walls
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
- fortressHeavily defended military structure
embassy · siege warfare · port · chokepoint · choke point · supply routes · missile silo · buffer zones · border checkpoint · military campaigns · command center · forward operating base · listening post · mountain passes · shipping lane · free trade zone · trade hub · oil field
- islandsisland, isle, isles, islet, islets
- Military Sitesforts, military bases, fortresses, naval stations, air force bases
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
- Border StatesKentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia
- naval stationsPearl Harbor, Guantanamo Bay, Norfolk, Key West, Midway
- Scottish WarsRobert the Bruce, William Wallace, Scottish independence, Bannockburn, Scottish rebellion
strategic locationsno-man's-land
Unclaimed disputed territory
demilitarized zones · neutral territory · hinterlands · remote wilderness · dead zones