Military geography
If a general desired to be a successful actor in the great drama of war, his first duty is to study carefully the theater of operations so that he may see clearly the relative advantages and disadvantages it presents for himself and his enemies.Military geography has a long and practical history.
Russian colonel N. S. Olesik terms the field of analyzing the complex urban environment in particular “military geo-urbanistics.” In the open country, units only deal with terrain, weather, and the enemy.
In urban warfare, the terrain is more complex, filled with many structures and transformations of the land by the inhabitants, which restrict visibility from the air and create obstacles to ground units.
Spaces may be narrow, and convoys may be restricted to certain routes between buildings, where they face roadside bombs and ambushes.
Guerilla fighters may count on an enemy's unwillingness to bomb or fire on heavily populated areas.
Due to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the U.S. military has redesigned the uniforms for the different branches of service.
The moisture speeds up the rotting processes as well as causing wounds to become infected much easier because of all of the bacteria that live in the water.
These conditions call for a drastically thicker and thus warmer uniform, and the weapons even need to be refitted with the proper devices to ensure that they will operate in the cold.
There can be avalanches, rockslides, cliffs, and ambushes from higher up the slopes, and there are almost guaranteed to be caves somewhere in the mountain, as in Afghanistan.
After the thawing of winter's snow and the addition of the rains that the season brings, the ground becomes very soft, and almost any military vehicle can get bogged down if it is not properly equipped.
Defending the harbor is a treacherous task because odds are that the enemy can observe your position from both the air and the sea.
This makes them a high risk place to land but, if there is no prior warning, a beach-landing can be a very effective route into enemy territory.
The Middle East contains numerous valuable resources that major nations may compete over when supplies begin to fall around the world.
The strong military presence influenced some leaders to aid the United States with cheap oil, but over time those forces began to be viewed as a threat to the Muslim world.
The most obvious areas that conflict may arise over disputes for water supplies would be in the desert, but at the moment oil is the most valuable liquid in the Middle East.
Densely wooded regions of the world are constantly shrinking, and as the oil runs out, people will need to keep warm in the winter.
The forests of Latin America and the Pacific Islands are the key hotspots[citation needed] for this resource; this is in part due to the already tense situations in and around those regions because of growing tensions over global oil supplies.
