Apart from the difficulty of a water supply for a force occupying Laing's Nek, it was felt that such a forward position would be strategically unsafe, and would impose on the troops in Natal a task beyond their powers.
Finally, the enemy must be displaced from selected key positions, for if he is allowed to occupy those areas that he considers strategically important, it is difficult to imagine how his shock could be complete.
Otherwise Enos offers very favourable prospects, both strategically and tactically, and is so direct a threat to Constantinople as to necessitate withdrawal of Turkish troops from the Peninsula to meet it.
Strategically and tactically our method may have its merits, for though it piles everything on to one man, the Commander, yet he is the chap who has got to see it through.
It was seen that the proposed desert line was likely to be of far greater importance, both strategically and politically, than a continuation of the Wady Halfa-Kerma line round the remainder of the Nile bend.
It was in the Italian campaign of 1859 that railways first played a conspicuous part in actual warfare, both strategically and tactically.
This is the strategically important village through which both the Vilna-Rovno and the Minsk-Brest-Litovsk railways pass and around which a great deal of fighting had taken place in the past.
Mauritius remained a strategically important British naval base, and later an air station, playing an important role during World War II for anti-submarine and convoy operations, as well as the collection of signals intelligence.
In other instances traps may have been so strategically situated with respect to preferred travel routes that they caught the same snakes repeatedly.
Also, the communications of such a defending force will not only be mechanically rotten but will also be strategically at the tender mercy of the most cunning Prince in Europe.
Before the situation was changed by the Bulgarians' action we considered that, owing to the marshy nature of the country now occupied at Suvla and the approaching winter, this reduction of front would be strategically advantageous.
Acting strategically as they did at Colesberg, in the relief of Kimberley, and in the operations leading up to Paardeberg, results were obtained which affected the whole subsequent conduct of the War.
Any attempt to concentrate strategically against an enemy in movement without at some point fighting to gain time must be dismissed as illusory.
How can strategically independent Cavalry provide for the security of its baggage when it must often be left some days' marches behind?
The battle was lost by the Allies tactically and strategically through the defeat of their right wing at Longwy and Neufchateau, and through the encircling of their left wing at Mons.
The Russian invasion of that province, however, so distant from all strategicallyimportant points, was but a political manoeuvre.
Since Richmond is located within a one hundred mile radius of the national capital and is geographically and strategically situated from a military viewpoint, it was designated as a "critical area.
I went out to my advanced Headquarters, which had been established at Bavai, a small village which is strategically important from the circumstance that it is the meeting place of roads from every point of the compass.
The first Battle of Warsaw and the Battle of Kazimirjev were strategically admirable; and the subsequent fighting, from Kozienice westward, showed the stubborn valour of the Russian soldier.
The words must be spoken by people who are strategically placed, and they must be spoken at the opportune moment.
The Pompeian army was at any rate strategically lost; Caesar avoided weakening his army and still further envenoming the bitter feud by useless bloodshed.
It was on an early January day of one of these treacherous hot winds that I was motored up from the plain of Venezia to a certain sector of the Italian Alpine front, a sector almost as importantstrategically as it is beautiful scenically.
Being between the enemy and his base, our situation was both tactically and strategically good.
The military installation on the island is one of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific.
Though the march conclude in a defeat, it may be strategically sound; though it conclude in a victory, it may be strategically unsound.
Napoleon's march into Russia in 1812 was strategically sound.
This route is strategically of immense importance to Turkey, and is perhaps the best.
The Euphrates line is strategically of advantage to Turkey, mainly as a check on the Bedouin tribes.
His plan of campaign was simple and strategically admirable.
The operations of this kind were too many, and strategically of too little importance to call for detailed description in a general history of the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strategically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
