Scientific Frontier, a term used by Lord Beaconsfield at the Guildhall banquet of 9th November 1878, when speaking of the boundaries between India and Afghanistan. He stated that at that time the frontier in question was 'a haphazard frontier,' but that steps were being taken to make it 'a scientific frontier,' by which he meant a frontier that would admit of being occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of strategy.
Scientific Frontier
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 231
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