'bridgehead' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use bridgehead to refer to a landing area from which an attacking force can begin its offensive. For example, "The Allied troops had to establish a bridgehead before they could launch their counter-attack."
BAE's main Middle East deal, and its bridgehead to the region, was the controversial al-Yamamah contract that brought BAE more than £40bn in revenue, but also a Serious Fraud Office investigation that was terminated under the orders of No 10 in 2006.
Google and PayPal, which also use Ireland as a bridgehead into the European market, increased their workforces during the worst years of the recession.
That is the path trodden by David Burnside, a steely former Ulster Unionist MP turned public relations man who has emerged as a key bridgehead between Russian interests and the Conservatives.
Witold Szymanski, a deal-maker at RZB, an Austrian bank, believes that big companies in Russia and other countries not likely to join the EU will soon want to make acquisitions in Central Europe to establish a bridgehead there.It did not take Eastern Europe long to adopt the financial habits of its capitalist present.
But whereas Vredestein has been a bridgehead for Apollo's products in Europe, Tata's cars have made few inroads there.Nor did JLR seem to need any advice from Tata on how to run its plants in Britain.
This latest potential consolidation of British pay-TV was facilitated by Liberty Media, itself owned by AT&T, which holds large minority stakes in both companies.See article: AT&T rebornRupert Murdoch's BSkyB, a British cable-TV company, gained a long-sought bridgehead in a big European market by acquiring 24% of Germany's Kirch PayTV for DM2.9 billion ($1.5 billion).
They want to be seen as a bridgehead between Central Asia and the warm waters of the Arabian Sea; as a pro-Western access-point to the Muslim world; and as a passage between energy-rich Iran and energy-parched India.
Its bridgehead is Eurex US, a Chicago-based subsidiary which, despite much lobbying from the big Chicago exchanges, had finally won approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), America's main regulator of futures exchanges, a week earlier.
Such a Palestinian state, he says, would swiftly become, like Lebanon under Hizbullah and Gaza under Hamas, another bridgehead from which Iran and its proxies would pursue their ambition to extirpate the Jewish state.It may now take weeks for Israel to choose a new government.
Clashes between Serb forces and the guerrillas have been particularly fierce in villages close to Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia, where NATO has been building a bridgehead from which a peacekeeping force could enter Kosovo (see article).
Moreover, China's latest promise, plus the offer from Egypt to provide another 750 troops, has undercut Mr Bashir's assertion that any peacekeeping force would be a bridgehead for a hostile Western invasion.He has yet to accept the proposed full 20,000-man force, but other pressures are mounting.
