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Making something attack-proof by thinking like the attacker first.
means A structure, wall, or measure built to defend a place—or by extension, anything strengthened against assault, decay, or failure.
from From Latin fortis, 'strong,' plus facere, 'to make'—literally 'strong-making.' It passed through French fortification into English around the 1400s, first for military engineering—walls, ramparts, moats—then widened over the centuries to cover any reinforcement, from fortified wine to a fortified argument.
- star forts
- Angled bastions eliminated blind spots gunpowder created
- vauban's math
- French engineer calculated optimal wall angles geometrically
- cereal irony
- Vitamin fortification borrows the same siege vocabulary
- great wall
- Over 13,000 miles of connected fortification efforts