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  2. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Reduit: an enclosed defensive emplacement inside a larger fort; provides protection during a persistent attack. Sangar: a small temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally of stone, but built of sandbags and similar materials in modern times. Sally port; Sapping; Scarp: the side of a ditch in front of a fortification facing away ...

  3. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Elastic Defense - A strategy to flexibly absorb then repel the advance of attackers through carefully planned integrated fighting positions. Fortification – A semi-permanent or permanent defensive structure that gives physical protection to a military unit

  4. Hyperfocus - Wikipedia

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    Hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a subject, topic, or task. In some individuals, various subjects or topics may also include daydreams, concepts, fiction, the imagination, and other objects of the mind.

  5. Defence mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), [7] Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud: repression, regression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against one's own person, reversal into the opposite, and sublimation or displacement.

  6. Hakkō-ryū - Wikipedia

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    Hakko Ryu is a style of self-defence that targets the pressure points and nerves sensitive to pain. [6] The sensitive pressure points or tsubo lie along the meridians keiraku through which the qi flows, and striking these points can create momentary intense pain. [1] This allows the defender to control, subdue or warn off an attacker.

  7. Self-defense - Wikipedia

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    Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm. [1] The use of the right of self-defense as a legal justification for the use of force in times of danger is available in many jurisdictions. [2]

  8. SPEAR System - Wikipedia

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    The SPEAR System® (an acronym for Spontaneous Protection Enabling Accelerated Response) is a close-quarter protection system that uses a person's reflex action in threatening situations as a basis for defence. [1] The founder, Tony Blauer, developed the SPEAR System® in Canada during the 1980s. [2]

  9. Nonviolent self defense - Wikipedia

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    Nonviolent Self Defense (NSD) is a system of self-protection and humane control developed in the 1970s by Harvard-trained educational psychologist Dr. William Paul (1939–1989). NSD was devised for use by mental health professionals who dealt with potentially violent psychiatric patients on a daily basis. NSD is a system of integrated self ...