lilypad strategy and sea-basing

[Grant Barrett]

I did a small entry for this sense of "lily pad" last year and
defined it as "an outpost, advance camp, foreign base, or staging area":

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/lily_pad/

No doubt the 1998 first cite can be antedated by our stalwart searchers.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Sep 1, 2005, at 07:52, Barnhart wrote:

> Heard minutes ago on NPR and confirmed by Google News:
>
> lily pad
>
> Under a new model for more expeditionary fighting, the Army could use
> these training areas as “lily pad” bases, giving soldiers deployed
> from
> the United States a place to stop on their way to more remote
> locations.
> Stars And Stripes (Google News), Aug. 7, 2005