'defence position' is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a crouching or defensive posture taken when facing an adversary. For example: The soldier lowered himself into a defence position as the enemy combatant approached.
"We wanted to bring in a strong player in the central defence position, a player who knows the Premier League and Ashley fits the bill for us very well," the Everton manager said of his £12m signing.
"If you look on the footage he was in the perfect forward defence position," said Malcolm in this interview, "but the ball bowled him half an hour before he put the bat down!" South Africa were one for three.
Asia is undergoing major strategic and political change, including an uptick in Chinese maritime assertiveness, the normalisation of Japan's defence position, and leadership transitions in the region's two largest democracies, India and Indonesia.
Goldenberg, Cross reports, "took issue with the defence position that Guthrie and Reilly must not have been truly afraid of Elliott because they called him out even taunted him on Twitter".
The centre position had the highest risk of concussion, 25% (30.6% in men's WC A-pool), the defence position, 20.2% (15.3% in men's WC A-pool) and the wing position, 17.3% (19.4% in men's WC A-pool).
American and British fighter patrols have been stepped up and have started attacking Iraqi defence positions within the "no-fly" zone established after the Gulf war.
Commenting on the new deployment of troops in Gaza, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said forces were taking up "defence positions" in Israeli communities that have been struck by the rockets from Gaza.
Its strength resided mainly in the inaccessibility of the intermediate terrain leading up to the defence positions.
Follow-up units from the 1st Battalion 86th Rifle Regiment had crossed over by 21 00 and stormed the remaining bunkers on Hill 246, where the main French defence positions were located.
While the agency is most known for its implication in NSA mass-spying regimes unveiled by Edward Snowden, it also manages Canada's cyber-defence positions and secures some aspects of Canadian technology infrastructure.
I have therefore decided, with great sadness, to resign from my post as secretary of state for defence – a position which I have been immensely proud and honoured to have held".
