Terrain is not just mountains streams and valleys. Those are important, but modern warfare has taken on dimensions beyond simple time and space.
Physical terrain.
In Afghanistan high mountain roads with steep sides made going through them without some sort of aerial platform providing covering fires a dicey proposition at best. However those pieces of canalizing terrain were well known.
Alternately the bad guys would like to hump a Dshka heavy machine gun halfway up some otherwise unremarkable hill and set up a long range ambush to take pot shots at the ISAF patrols 700 or 800 or more meters away before leisurely moving to the backside of the hill and out of line of site.
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