Leigh Bardugo

Ravka has a very particular identity among the countries of the Grishaverse. It's surrounded by enemies. It has spent hundreds of years in near isolation because of the Shadow Fold. It is very much a garrison state so there's a tremendous desire to survive, but there's also a kind of soul-deep shrug that goes along with Ravkans knowing the odds.

Israeli Author

Fiona Barton

Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the warmth, and the wonderful characters in The Sidetrack Tap. I discovered them when I was about 30, starting with 'Leaving Home' and 'We Are Still Married,' and fell in love with the place and those flat Midwestern vowels.

English Journalist

Charlie Pierce

There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.

American Journalist

Miriam Toews

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

Canadian Writer

Ellen Bass

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

American Poet

Robert C. O'Brien

While air bases and logistics hubs remain important, the Cold War-style garrisoning of troops makes less military and fiscal sense than it did in the 1970s.

American Public Servant

The Cold War practice of garrisoning large numbers of troops with their families on massive bases in places like Germany is now, in part, obsolete.

George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

English Politician

Used to emphasize a protective military role in a specific area.

Military Presence

Implies soldiers are not just passing through, but staying for a period.

Long-term Stationing

Refers to soldiers in a particular place, not generally.

Specific Location

Highlights a strategic decision to station troops, not random.

Deliberate Action

Stresses the intent to avert danger by stationing the troops.

Preventive Measure

Suggests a proactive step to guard a location.

Active Defense

A garrison is often in a key defensive or sensitive location.

Strategic Spot

A garrison can symbolize authority or occupation of an area.

Symbol of Control

 spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them, the pirates were able to mount successful —and often brutal— raids on garrisons, villages, and markets throughout the coast. Using her administrative talents,

The most successful...

 Let's not neglect the insurgency just to the south, Balochistan. Two weeks ago, Balochi rebels attacked a Pakistani military garrison, and this was the flag that they raised over it. The post-colonial entropy that is happening around the world is accelerating,

Parag Khanna maps the...

 have a transatlantic liner and they said okay we'll go back to the drawing board to create enough space despite the three design constraints Stephen Payne must transform the rules of shipbuilding every time I met Mick garrison he would ask me how many more