During World War II, Bonn acquired military significance because of its strategic location on the Rhine River, which formed a natural barrier to easy penetration into the German heartland from the west.

The Democratic Republic of Congo also possesses 50 percent of Africa ’ s forests and a river system that could provide hydro-electric power to the entire continent, according to a United Nations report on the country ’ s strategic significance and its potential role as an economic power in central Africa.

The latter held economic and strategic significance, and was home to people speaking Finno-Ugric languages.

The possibility of STP becoming a major oil producer, following the discovery of oil reserves, has also elevated the small island state, traditionally a sleepy backwater, into an entity with potential strategic significance in the Gulf of Guinea.

Due to its strategic significance, Yerevan was constantly fought over, and passed back and forth, between the dominion of Persia and the Ottomans.

" It is desirable ", the document continued, " that Ireland should be integrated into the defence planning of the North Atlantic area, for its strategic position and present lack of defensive capacity are matters of significance.

These goals range from defending a location, reaching a certain point on the map, escorting a unit safely, or destroying an object of strategic significance.

Once it passed under Roman rule in the 3rd century BC, it developed strategic significance as the point of junction between the coast road and the Via Traiana and as a port for eastward trade ; a branch road to Tarentum led from Barium.

( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008 ) Account of how U. S. government discovered strategic significance of communications lines, including submarine cables, during World War I.

For example, in 1890 Alexandra wrote a memorandum, distributed to senior British ministers and military personnel, warning against the planned exchange of the British North Sea island of Heligoland for the German colony of Zanzibar, pointing out Heligoland's strategic significance and that it could be used either by Germany to launch an attack, or by Britain to contain German aggression.

A strategy game or strategic game is a game ( e. g. video or board game ) in which the players ' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.

The real significance of the battle was political and strategic: the Roman defeat left a large and hostile foreign force within the frontiers of the Eastern Roman Empire but surprisingly and finally, only the Western Roman Empire will suffer.

The city held strategic and symbolic significance to both sides of the conflict.

The strategic significance of Xiangyang came from the fact that it was in a position dominating the Han river.

The Boyne was not without strategic significance for both England and Ireland, however.

For " mainstream " history, the Frankish and later the Habsburg empire, the Alps had strategic importance as an obstacle, not as a landscape, and the Alpine passes have consequently had great significance militarily.

Following the 1936-1939 Arab revolt, the British authorities built a number of police forts ( named Tegart forts after their designer ) at various locations ; Latrun was chosen due to its strategic significance, particularly its dominant position above the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road.

Although far from the centre of power in Scotland, Dumfries had obvious strategic significance sitting as it does on the edge of Galloway and being the centre of control for the south west of Scotland.

It was not only the role that France played in the war which was recognized, but its important strategic position and significance in the Cold War as a major democratic, capitalist nation of Western Europe in holding back the influence of communism on the continent.

It served to encourage growth in areas which had strategic significance, providing a local economic base for construction of fortifications and population for defense of the area.

Great Torrington had strategic significance in the English Civil War.

The fort gradually lost its strategic significance and was demolished in 1810.

Lichfield's position as a focus of supply routes had an important strategic significance during the war, and both forces were anxious for control of the city.

It assumed great strategic significance, particularly as the Burma Road was constructed from Kunming to Lashio in Burma during this time.

The strait has often played a strategic role in history.

Section 112 ), describes the Pharos and how it was a key landmark to his subduing Ptolemy XIV's armies ( 48 BC ), describing its strategic importance in his sentences " Now because of the narrowness of the strait there can be no access by ship to the harbour without the consent of those who hold the Pharos.

Even as far back as prehistoric and early historical times, people knew about the strategic importance of the strait at the Main “ knee ” between the Odenwald and the Spessart, building mighty ringwalls on the Greinberg above Miltenberg and on the Bürgstadter Berg ( mountains ).

Rumelihisarı, which was designated to control the passage of ships through the strait, eventually lost its strategic importance when a second pair of fortresses was built further up the Bosphorus, where the strait meets the Black Sea.

Its location gives Oman partial control, shared with Iran, of the strategic strait.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

Alfred's burghal system was revolutionary in its strategic conception and potentially expensive in its execution.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

It was understood that both ICBMs and SLBMs are obviously " strategic ".

SDI research was cut back following the end of Reagan's presidency, and in 1995 it was reiterated in a presidential joint statement that " missile defense systems may be deployed ... will not pose a realistic threat to the strategic nuclear force of the other side and will not be tested to ... that capability.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

A rapid reduction in personnel and active equipment was to be carried out in parallel with a general re-alignment of strategic interests.

The scheme was abandoned when Corel's shares fell and it became clear that there was really no strategic fit.

In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.

The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.

The primary objective was to increase strategic depth between the border and Italy and also to provide a major fluvial supply-route between the Roman armies in the region.

The strategic result of Crassus ' campaigns was the permanent annexation of Moesia by Rome.

It was believed that destruction of enemy agriculture on a strategic scale could thwart Sino-Soviet aggression in a general war.

The effect on the strategic situation in the Mediterranean was immediate, reversing the balance of the conflict and giving the British control at sea that they maintained for the remainder of the war.

The Baltic island of Gotland was also in a better strategic position for Russian-Byzantine trade, and was gaining eminence as a mercantile stronghold.