DTIC ADA437998: Notes on Field Fortification, Third Edition
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- DTIC ADA437998: Notes on Field Fortification, Third Edition
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- 1916
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DTIC ADA437998: Notes on Field Fortification, Third Edition
Author: Defense Technical Information Center
Year: 1916
According to whether they respond to strategic or tactical needs, fortifications may be classified as strategic fortifications and tactical fortifications and are most frequently constructed, in whole or in part, during times of peace, with all the resources of the technical arts, to strengthen points whose strategic importance in the event of a war is clearly seen. Occasionally, however, the necessity for strategic fortifications arises only at the outbreak, or during the progress, of a war to strengthen points, the strategic value of which could not be foreseen. Their construction, more limited as to time, involves expedients less comprehensive than in the case of works built during times of peace, but still far in excess of those applicable in ordinary field worlds. Strategic fortifications also are called permanent and semi-permanent or provisional, according to the time of their construction and the materials employed. The various existing land fortifications in Europe are examples of permanent fortifications, while the defenses of Washington, DC, in 1861-65, form a good example of provisional fortifications. Both permanent and provisional fortifications are constructed by mil