WordNet
n. a defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited [syn: hasty defence]
Usage examples of "hasty defense".
The hasty defense presented by second squad was temporarily impregnable to the Posleen who were advancing on a narrow strip between a ridge and the Manada River, a much larger body of water than reality for the purposes of the exercise.
All units have assumed a hasty defense, per the corps order, and are ready to resume offensive operations or, on order, commence our withdrawal from the Ukraine.
Now, finding that Enrico Dell'este had cut off his retreat with a far larger army than anyone believed Ferrara could possibly put into the field, Sforza was doing what he could to prepare a hasty defense.
Dacey erupted from his camouflage, knife first, barreling through the astonished plainsman's hasty defense.
The Blue Force in this case was a brigade of the 5th Mechanized Division conducting hasty defense.
The two men took body armor and helmets, a couple of pump-action shotguns, and hustled back past the lines of their shipmates to establish a hasty defense.
The backup company a thousand meters behind the point went into a hasty defense and called in a sighting report.