It was also never intended to take the role of static defense of the heavy machine gun.

When threatened, Americans have typically taken the offensive rather than hide behind a static defense.

And for political reasons these forces are configured in static forward defenses.

The bulk of the static, local defenses could then be reassumed by European armies.

"We've been trained to fight nuclear wars where static defenses are fatal," he said.

The Iranian government has set up static defenses along this border.

Ground commanders also learned that armored units were not for infantry support and static defenses, but needed to be used as mobile reserves.

But they were in rings of static defense.

They cannot build static defenses apart from a few doctrine-specific heavy weapons.

Europe's armies were designed for static defense against the Soviet Union.