defence in depth

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Noun

defence in depth (countable and uncountable, plural defences in depth)

  1. (military) A strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, potentially yielding a limited amount of territory in order to stress the attacker's logistics and reduce their momentum.
  2. The use of multilayered protection to make a system reliable even if part of the protection fails.
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