American fashion, music, and now magazines have created Westernized outposts in countries all over the world.

In response the Indians launched a policy of creating outposts behind the Chinese troops so as to cut off their supplies and force their return to China.

Even novelists and poets, by giving us alternative worlds to explore, have created new outposts of cyberspace.

"We are not now in the process of creating new unauthorized outposts at a time when we want to dismantle the existing unauthorized outposts."

The aim of this policy was to create outposts behind advancing Chinese troops to interdict their supplies, forcing them north of the disputed line.

The goal of these communities was to create perfect outposts of religious idealism where the wilderness would separate them from the interference of kings, parliaments, or any other secular authority.

The colonising power, be it Portuguese, Dutch, French, British, Spanish, German, or Austrian, felt the necessity to create protective outposts to secure their respective interests.

Italian bankers and traders expanded to all parts of Europe and the Mediterranean, sometimes creating outposts.

Of course, the publishers of those books have also created outposts on the Web.

Or developers seeking cheaper land will create residential outposts to which highways must be built, followed by businesses, schools and municipal services, increasing random sprawl.