Waterford city, of Norse foundation and an important port and centre of trade, was a bridgehead for the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century.
Other scholars believed those earthworks were a bridgehead defensive structure, designed to protect the boats of the Roman invasion fleet once they had been hauled on to the beach.
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.
Alexander believes the issue of Europe may be a bridgehead for Labour to build a stronger relationship with business so at least the voice of business will not be uniformly unwilling to support Labour as was the case in 2010 election.
They also suggested that allowing the merger would further European goals of bringing changes in the financial services sector because NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse had "shown themselves to be a bridgehead of integrity and transparency against a tidal wave of opacity and greed that permeates the less-regulated segments of financial markets".
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.
Additionally, there is a new bridgehead further to remove employment protection in the labour market, trading employment rights for shares in the company.
For Japanese imperialists (also Mahan fans), the Korean peninsula was a dagger at Japan's heart; for Chinese strategists it is a threatening "bridgehead".
And he's planning a second listing, in Hong Kong, which he says is a useful bridgehead for China mergers and acquisitions.
And the third is perhaps the most contentious of all from a competitive standpoint: "Mexico is an interesting bridgehead given its geographical location," deGeer notes.
