defensive warfare

基本解釋

You go to a place like Perpignan And these are fortress-like defenses in an age of essentially defensive warfare.
這些城鎮(zhèn)是一位才華橫溢的,軍事工程師的作品,他叫沃邦or Lille or montmédy, they're all over the place. 在那個基本上以防御戰(zhàn)為主的年代,這些要塞城鎮(zhèn)就如同堡壘一樣
It is easy to fall into a passive position in defensive warfare, which gives far less scope for the full exercise of initiative than does offensive warfare.
防御戰(zhàn)本來容易陷入被動地位，防御戰(zhàn)大不如進攻戰(zhàn)之能夠充分地發(fā)揮主動權。
All these find expression in quick-decision offensive warfare on exterior lines in campaigns and battles and protracted defensive warfare on interior lines in strategy.
而一切這些，都表現(xiàn)于戰(zhàn)役和戰(zhàn)斗上的外線的速決的進攻戰(zhàn)，同時也就表現(xiàn)于戰(zhàn)略上的內(nèi)線的持久的防御戰(zhàn)之中。

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防衛(wèi)作戰(zhàn)
The Defensive Warfare is a profoundly informationization form of warfare, which will be highly reliant on the information sources.
防衛(wèi)作戰(zhàn)將是一場信息化程度很高的作戰(zhàn)樣式,對信息資源的依賴將空前提高。